Dodd , a Democrat, is proposing a sweeping set of drug reforms that would give the Food and Drug Administration the muscle to force pharmaceutical companies to study drug safety after the medicines are approved.

FORBES: Senator Dodd: Proposes Sweeping Drug Safety Reform

Having quietly given Rwanda the benefit of the doubt, will the US, the UK and the EU finally use their collective muscle - and aid budgets - to force Kigali, and to a marginally lesser extent, Kampala, to stop their military adventures in DR Congo?

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For more marketing muscle, it teamed up in 2000 with Wyeth, which brought an additional sales force of 1, 000.

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As the state becomes increasingly muscle bound with its technological capabilities to spy and employ violence against its citizens to force them to comply with its illegitimate dictates, that same technological capacity might soon be turned back on the state jujitsu style as that technology becomes available to individuals.

FORBES: Restoring a Balance of Power Between Individuals and the State