Channel One, which beams TV news programs and commercials into thousands of schools in the U.S., has broadcast dozens of news segments which contained anti-drug messages in the past three years -- and received millions of dollars' worth of ad credits from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy for doing so.

Do you think activism is futile and ineffective? Time magazine thinks otherwise. "The demonstrations against global capitalism at the G-8 summit in Genoa were the latest manifestation of a trend that--mostly quietly and behind the scenes--is defining our age," writes Michael Elliott.

The government of Ecuador is paying $180,000 to Burson-Marsteller.