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Aid: Among U.S. Donations, Tons of Worthless Drugs 

Last month, Project Hope, the American medical charity, shipped $1.5 million worth of emergency supplies to the Kosovo refugees. But relief workers desperate for syringes, penicillin and insulin found many of the hundreds of boxes instead contained Chap Stick, Preparation H and anti-smoking inhalers -- given by U.S. companies that got a tax break for the donations. . . Project Hope said . . . that all of its donations were reviewed by the Ministry of Health in Macedonia, which requested the items -- including the Nicotrol inhalers for use in a pilot anti-smoking program. [This graph only]

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