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...rights. Only after extensive negotiations have the two scientists managed to strike a deal with Syngenta, Monsanto and the four other companies that held exclusive licenses to the technologies used by Potrykus and Beyer to create golden rice. In exchange for commercial marketing rights in the U.S. and other affluent markets, the companies recently agreed to donate the technology free to developing countries...
...Asia's ongoing economic worries. With the number of visitor arrivals from Japan still sagging below pre-crisis highs, Hawaii's all-important hospitality sector has been reaching out to more diverse markets?wooing international conferences with an impressive $350 million convention center, courting China's growing cadre of affluent travelers by opening a marketing office in Beijing, and seeking ever more extravagant ways to indulge the whims of dotcom millionaires from Seattle and the San Francisco Bay area...
DeKalb County has one of the nation's most affluent black populations. This is not backwater rural Georgia but an urbanesque suburb of Atlanta. In fact, part of the city dips into a corner of the county. It is home to Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Increasingly, DeKalb is the Atlanta area's most racially and ethnically diverse county, with white residents along the northern boundaries seeing power shift to upscale blacks...
...committee members who voted against extending randomization have defended their decision as critical to keeping affluent families in the public schools--which have suffered a sharp decline in enrollment during the past decade--rather than sending their children to private schools...
...Bush's most profound attack on Clinton's economic legacy. In 1993, without G.O.P. support, Clinton pushed through a budget that raised taxes on the affluent and sliced into the burgeoning deficit. Most economists credit that deal with helping launch the next seven years of economic growth, but Bush partisans see it differently. "The Bush tax cut is a direct rollback of Clinton's largest tax increase in history," says Bush aide Ed Gillespie. But Bush may not end up cutting into Clinton's overall spending levels. His emphasis on education, military and health-care spending...