The joy of sex. If we know something is harmful, instead of trying to guess how much of it we can tolerate, why don't we see if we can redesign it and make it benign or unnecessary. Maybe she wants every day to be like Halloween. In June 1997 Dr. William M. London, ACSH's Director of Public Health, attended a celebration of the 75th anniversary of Reader's Digest . There he met two women whose name tags indicated that they were affiliated with large publishing companies.
Talk is cheap.
But Ms. O'Donnell's agent, Risa Shapiro, has told ACSH that the offer was informal and that safety questions were not a factor in the celebrity's decision to decline it. Just because she turned down a deal to do a reading club promotion doesn't mean she thinks reading is bad.