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A waitress in Iowa, Anita Esterday, chides the media for wasting resources on meaningless stories about who tipped and who didn't while kids are dying in the war and the price of oil reaches astronomical prices. You go, girl.

Merck reverses it's strategy and agrees to a $4.85 billion settlement with the plaintiffs in lawsuits over Vioxx. After spending $600 million a year in legal fees, they must have decided to make other lawyers rich, too. The people actually harmed by their drug will receive a pittance.

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