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Then came Sept. 11. After the hijack terror followed bioterror - anthrax. Faced with the potential of a widespread public health emergency, U.S. officials scrambled to stockpile Cipro, Bayer AG's patented antibiotic used to treat anthrax. Suddenly the U.S. and Canada - long tough on patent protection - found themselves feeling like South Africa, Brazil and other developing nations desperate for needed medicines at low cost. When politicians mentioned overriding patents, Bayer struck discount-purchase deals. Bayer also donated 4 million tablets to the U.S. for emergency and postal workers. Other companies, too, are eager to promote their own low-cost anthrax...
...Pieper's long career includes stints at Germany's Software AG, AT&T's Unix Systems, Tandem Computers and Philips...
...session of debate and compromise, both House and Senate leaders appear prepared to grant Ashcroft a number of his requests, including extended wiretapping capabilities and a longer detention time (seven days up from the existing two day limit). It?s not exactly what he was looking for, and the AG is reportedly disappointed by the results of the negotiations. And he won?t be able to do much to address his grievances; short of advising the President to veto the legislation (a move that strikes most as deeply unadvisable). In the end, Ashcroft will have to live with what Congress...
...task of reinventing the music industry has fallen heavily on the shoulders of German media executive Hilbers. Last month he left BMG, the music branch at Bertelsmann AG, to run the lawsuit-plagued music site Napster. Before joining BMG, Hilbers, 38, spent four years managing AOL Europe, a property of TIME's parent company. Now he will try to transform Napster from industry rogue to copyright-respecting subscription service...
...moved farther away from Condit. A fellow Blue Dog Democrat, Texas Representative Charles Stenholm, who sits beside Condit on the Agriculture Committee, issued a statement denouncing Condit. "Charlie's sick of seeing that clip on TV of him next to Condit," a fellow Blue Dog tells TIME. Indeed, the "Ag" committee has rarely been so packed with TV cameras going live - although the media horde trailing Condit somehow missed him leaving a late-night committee session last week to meet with the FBI and Washington police for a fourth interview. This time the questions were meant to help them compile...