The shock effect: advertisers face a backlash over sexual images

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Several recent advertising campaigns have been widely criticized in Canada and elsewhere for being too sexually explicit, including Calvin Klein Jeans' campaign, which featured scantily clad early adolescents. Holt Renfrew's Jaipur ad has been attacked as promoting bondage amd violence against women.

Advertising, Clothing industry, Public opinion, Sexuality, Sex in advertising, Perfumes industry, Holt, Renfrew and Company Ltd., Calvin Klein Inc. Calvin Klein Jeans

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Thalidomide is back; a horror drug from the '60s may find new uses

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Many thalidomide victims of the late 1950s and early 1960s are disturbed by the US Food and Drug Administration's decision to consider easing controls on thalidomide, the drug which caused severe birth defects, including missing limbs, in some 12,000 babies.

Laws, regulations and rules, Causes of, Birth defects, Pharmaceutical research, Thalidomide

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Facts the fast way: Canada's book trade tries to catch the digital wave

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Canadian publishers are busy putting titles onto CD-ROM. Companies such as Carswell and McClelland & Stewart have volumes of reference books to convert. Sales of CD-ROM books and interactive media have grown dramatically in recent years.

Publishing industry, Management, Marketing, CD-ROM databases, Multimedia software, CD-ROM, CD-ROM disks

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