Recent mergers harm consumers.
The mp3 debate gets out of hand. This summer I worked at a medical lab, which every week killed about a dozen rats, using them for neurological research. Another girl who worked in my lab suggested that the term sacrifice for her evoked images of Baal-worshippers cutting the throats of helpless animals. I wonder how many people, when hearing the term, see it in its broadest sense the sense of voluntarily giving up something important to us so that others may benefit. Silence on Sacrifice Sacrifice is not a term that s commonly used in our everyday discourse, or in the language of our politicians, who seem to think that appeals to people s self-interest can win them more votes than appeals to their consciences or their ideals of fairness.