James Smart

1 week ago | msn.com | James Smart

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1 week ago | theguardian.com | James Smart

Lives can turn on one mistake. Smith’s comes when he is caught in the corner of a restaurant in the Hamptons on the last night of summer, snorting cocaine from a key. He walks calmly out with the two khaki-clad police officers, poses for a mugshot and posts his $500 bail. Smith is Black, which won’t help, but he comes from wealth, which will. So he calls his sister, who calls his father in Atlanta, who tells his mother, who collapses on the floor in shock then starts calling lawyers.

3 weeks ago | nation.africa | James Smart

An odyssey of two Kenyans, one who carted away entire wagons and one who fell off the carriages.   The last passengers on the last train to be dropped off from the Lunatic Express just before the turn of the millennium rued the experience.   Catching that last train ride was the very last thing both passengers and staff wanted; the services had become utterly uninspiring. The toilets were overflowing, the windows boarded up, and the carriages were filthy and infested with vermin.

1 month ago | econsultancy.com | James Smart

The high regulatory standards to which pharma companies are held pose a hurdle when it comes to using social media. In the UK, for example, the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) prohibits the promotion of prescription-only medicines (POMs) to the public. Many markets have similar guidelines, and even in the United States, which allows direct promotion, a ban on pharma advertising on certain channels is currently under discussion.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | James Smart

Alison Bechdel emerged in the 1980s with Dykes to Watch Out For, a groundbreaking weekly strip that featured a group of mostly lesbian friends. Since then, her acclaimed graphic novels have focused mainly on herself and her family. Fun Home in 2006 (exploring her closeted, funeral-director father’s suicide and her coming out) was followed by Are You My Mother?