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...people as before. Yet 39 American pharmaceutical companies came out in ardent opposition to sharing their secret recipes. They claimed intellectual property was violated. But what about Hassan? Or his brother? And the nameless thousands?Even though the Food and Drug Administration eventually caved, these drugs are still conspicuously absent from the African interior. About 500,000 Africans receive the antiretroviral medications they seek, but 4.7 million still need them. Our current efforts are simply insufficient. It is not enough to share precious intellectual property rights. We need to be willing to aggressively counteract AIDS with all the ammunition...
...dealers in the middle who have suffered the majority of the financial loss in the case,” Carson said. O’Connor said that Smiley was unique because he thoroughly cooperated with the government after his arrest. “I’m not sure absent his cooperation, we’d ever be able to [find all 97 maps],” he said. —Staff writer Brittney L. Moraski can be reached at bmoraski@fas.harvard.edu...
...kidnap drama has simply highlighted a fundamental flaw in the policy of unilateral withdrawal on which Olmert based his election campaign. Absent any agreement with a Palestinian government that is willing and able to enforce order, militants will continue to attack Israel. The idea that Israel can "disengage" from the Palestinians without their cooperation is wishful thinking...
There is, finally, a Zen paradox to hosting. You must be a celebrity and a commoner; you must be present and absent, ceding your guests the spotlight; you must know what to say and, more important, what not to. Several hosts and producers interviewed for this article repeated the importance of "getting out of the way" of the show. Seacrest says that his job is to make Idol "clever," but adds, "That doesn't mean I say something clever. I know when Simon is gearing up to say something. I can read it on his face. A host...
...flight from Baltimore to Manchester, N.H., to take off last week when he got a stunning BlackBerry message from his lawyer, Robert Luskin: "Fitzgerald Called. Case Over." Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel investigating the leak of former CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity, had sent a fax saying that absent any unexpected developments, he did not anticipate any criminal charges against Rove. The message to Luskin from Fitzgerald--who said nothing publicly--was an unrequired, if welcome, courtesy. Rove had been in suspense since at least February 2004, when he made the first of five grand jury appearances. Luskin said...