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The fire-safe cigarette may be on its way to market in a few years. Such an event would reduce the nearly 2000 fatalities and many more burn injuries that flow from the 46,000 fires which cigarettes start, due to careless or tipsy smokers, each year. What has revived hope for such a cigarette is a…

Shoes should not be designed to increase the risk of falling. Indeed, there is an industry-developed standard, published by the American Standards Institute, which requires a minimum of traction for the sole and heel. But this standard is a voluntary one and, anyhow, few consumers know about it. So when the shoe manufacturer places style…

On February 7th, Senator Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., rose on the floor of the Senate to say these words: “This is the hour that many of my colleagues hoped would never arrive. A strategy that many had counted on to put the President’s pay recommendations into effect without a vote in the other body has unraveled.”…

In a fit of cowering frenzy, the bipartisan cabal of Speaker Jim Wright and Republican leader, Bob Michel, have shut down the House of Representatives until February 8th when they expect to get their Pay Raise of 51%. Forcing the House of Representatives to go on strike and lock out Representatives from raising this or…

The showdown over the Reagan Salary Grab for top government officials of 51% or a $45,000 raise will reach a climax on February 8th. If both the House and Senate do not vote it down, by then, members of Congress, federal district court judges and top government officials will go to $135,000, plus many benefits,…

The bands are ‘a playing, the flags are ‘a waving and the taxpayers are ‘a paying for Ronald Reagan’s finale and departure, as they have paid for the past eight years of fiscal and political profligacy. Elaborate publicity events, planned by White House public relations, are taking the media by storm. Nor are the supine…

With Ronald Reagan announcing his gigantic salary grab to increase by 50% the pay of members of Congress and other top government officials (including his own pension), the 32 year career of retiring Senator, William Proxmire (0-WI) stands in even more startling contrast. Senators don’t come along like Proxmire anymore. Replacing Joseph McCarthy in 1956,…

There are not many people who can marshall facts and arguments better than physics — trained, Amory Lovins, the Director of the Rocky Mountain Institute in Old Snowmass, Colorado. His specialty for the past fifteen years has been energy and his target — the massive waste of energy in this country. You do not see…

The irrepressible Clint Reilly, who managed to spend a war chest of $70 million for the insurance companies and lose three ballot referendums in California, is drumming up new business for this firm — Clinton Reilly Campaigns. In a private 13 page memorandum, titled “Agenda 1989: The Lessons of the 1988 Insurance Campaign”, he advises…

The problem with President Reagan’s Commission on the salaries of top government officials is that the millionaires are not. as well represented as the multimillionaires on the nine-member panel. As might be expected, these moguls — mostly corporate lawyers and corporate executives (Aetna, Metropolitan Life, Loews Corp., Morrison Knudsen Corp.) recommended 50 percent increases in…