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Claiming success, pro-family groups called off a boycott on Procter & Gamble that was prompted by the Cincinnati-based corporation's "support for the homosexual agenda." The American Family Association, with backing from Focus on the Family and others, garnered nearly 400,000 signatures on a pledge to stop buying some of the corporation's signature products, including Crest toothpaste. "Judging by all we found in our research, it appears that our concerns have been addressed," said Donald Wildmon, AFA's chairman. Based on AFA's monitoring, Wildmon said P&G has stopped sponsoring homosexual Internet sites and TV programs such as "Will and Grace." According to...

Further Details in Cincinnati News: Cincinnati News NEW YORK - Procter & Gamble Co., the leading U.S. maker of household products whose brands include Crest, Pampers, Tide and Charmin, is buying the razor and battery maker Gillette Co. for $57 billion in a deal that will create the world's biggest consumer-products enterprise, the companies announced Friday. The merger, which must still be approved by regulators and shareholders, would create a company with revenues of more than $60 billion that would have even greater clout against mass-market retailers like Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which have been pressuring consumer product suppliers to keep...

NEW YORK — Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) is preparing to buy battery and shaving-products maker Gillette Co. (G) for $55 billion in stock, according to published reports. If approved by regulators, the acquisition would create the world's largest consumer-products company, coupling Gillette's Duracell batteries (search), Right Guard deodorant and razor brands with P&G's Tide detergent, Clairol and Pantene hair products and Folgers coffee (search).

Michael Moore wants to infringe on traditional parental rights. In a story on his movie, on 6/23/2004 at about 5:53 PM PT, on CNN, Michael Moore in response to his movie having an "R" rating said this exactly: "I encourage teenagers everywhere to sneak in and see it" So what does an R rating mean. R Rating: From the Motion Picture Association of America = Restricted - Under 17 Requires Accompanying Parent or Adult Guardian How about standard definition of teenager. "A person between the ages of 13 and 19; an adolescent." I just disagree with this statement he made....

Supporting Gulf War 2.0 September 2003 By Sgt. Frank N. Pellegrini When Maj. Gen. David E. Kratzer was chosen back in January to take his 377th Theater Support Command (TSC) in Kuwait to lead the support operation for a war in Iraq, one of the first things he did was read Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War, which is the theater support memoir of Lt. Gen. William G. Pagonis, the commander of the first TSC--a man who knew what it was to build what Kratzer has likened to a "city in the sand." To launch...

P&G suit against Amway dismissed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cincinnati Enquirer A federal court in Utah has dismissed a suit by Procter & Gamble Co. against several Amway Corp. distributors, Amway said Thursday. Cincinnati-based P&G had claimed that Amway and its distributors spread rumors about a link between P&G and Satanism. A P&G spokeswoman said the company disagreed with the ruling and was still considering its legal options. There still is a case pending against several distributors in Texas, she said.

Channel 4 is to examine whether the age of consent should be lowered to 14 in a series of programmes devoted to teenage sex, it said yesterday. The Adult At 14 season will offer a "realistic examination of teenage sexuality" in a succession of programmes highlighting the increasingly sexualised world in which children grow up. In one episode, Age Of Consent, the presenter, Miranda Sawyer, argues that sex below the age of 16 should be legalised. Another documentary, Porn To Be Young, will interview young people about their attitude towards pornography, while in 14 Alone, a group of 10 14-year-old...

Why are local Lebanese subsidiaries of major American corporations--like PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and Western Union--lending comfort and support to terrorists by advertising on Hezbollah television? Al Manar--the Arabic word for beacon--is the official television station of Lebanon's Party of G-d, more commonly known as Hezbollah. That Iranian-backed and -funded group has been implicated in the attacks against the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Americans in 1982, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut that killed 12 Americans in 1984, the Israeli Embassy and Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people in 1994 and numerous other...