Poetry, Prose and the Presidency

Poetry, Prose and the PresidencyI am not announcing my candidacy for President of the United States. For one thing, my Rolodex is deficient in billionaires, and for another, I have a day job — in which a global campaign to leverage the power of lifestyle as medicine figures prominently. I see some important parallels.I am not running for President. But looking on and…

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Australian PM under pressure to act on asylum detention policy

A police officer watches protesters occupy Australian PM Turnbull's electoral office, as they demand end to policy of offshore detention of asylum seekers, in Sydney suburb of EdgecliffBy Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) – A group of Christian protesters occupied the Sydney offices of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday, demanding an end to the long-term detention of asylum seekers in centers in the South Pacific. Around 20 activists, some holding a banner declaring "Children don&;t belong in detention", called on Turnbull to end the controversial offshore detention policy. Turnbull, who ousted former Prime Minister Tony Abbott in a party coup last month, was not in his office at the time of the protest.

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Exclusive: India battles big pharma over cough syrup abuse, reducing supplies

Councillor talks to drug addicts in a classroom at the Bangladesh Rehabilitation and Assistance Centre for Addicts in DhakaBy Aditya Kalra and Paritosh Bansal NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian regulators are privately pressuring major drug firms to better police how they sell popular codeine-based cough syrups to tackle smuggling and addiction, a move that is reducing supplies of a medicine doctors say is an effective treatment. India&;s Cipla stopped making the product last year owing to regulatory demands, and U.S.-based Abbott Laboratories and Pfizer have had to reduce batch sizes by up to half, cutting how much medicine their factories can produce. Regulators want to make it easier for law enforcement agencies to track cough syrup abuse in the country and bottles smuggled to neighboring Bangladesh, where it was banned in the 1980s but is still sought by addicts.

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