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Stop That

An administrative law judge has issued an order to Harold Weingold of West Orange, N.J., to stop promising that a $15 “cosmic protector” that he’s advertising will bring buyers good luck and protect them from bad people. The judge noted the protector “is actually a solar-powered calculator.” Cosmic powers? No, it “has no inherent power to do anything but assist the user in performing mathematical calculations,” she ruled. (AP) ...Seems to me that if people buy one, it has already not worked.


Publication Date: 16 July 1995

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