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...direct talks - which the Administration had hinted upon taking office that it was amenable to - it has hit the same notes that the Bush administration did. Only after a verifiable disabling of Pyongyang's nuclear program - in return for economic and energy assistance, both part of the 1994 agreement - would it move on to discussions about "normalizing relations." Diplomatic sources in east Asia say the U.S., in concert with its allies, is now talking about exactly what to put on the table, and in what order, in return for a verifiable halt of the North's nuclear program. For instance...
...make a major push for open access to scholarly research. The five-member compact on open-access publication, signed on Tuesday by Harvard, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, and the University of California at Berkeley, marks a growing consensus on the need for a fairer system of online scholarship. The agreement on open-access publication makes current scholarly research available for all readers online at no cost. Though the new open-access model of online publication eliminates traditional subscription and processing fees, it maintains essential features of journal publication such as peer review and the “author-pays?...
...Senate that, if passed, would allow merchants to negotiate their interchange fees directly with banks and credit-card networks. The Senate's version, introduced by Senator Richard Durbin, even calls for a panel of three electronic-payment-system judges to step in if merchants fail to reach a negotiated agreement...
...Square. “We’re happy to have them,” he said.Gray declined to comment on the terms of J.P. Licks’ lease.On top of the new competition, Herrell’s in Harvard Square has long held an nebulous franchising agreement with the Herrell’s Development Corporation, which currently owns four Herrell’s franchises. For “about 20 years,” the Square’s Herrell’s has not entered into a written contract with the Herrell family, instead relying...
...Pharmaceutical companies would also, per an agreement struck with the Obama Administration earlier this year, cut name-brand-drug costs 50% for Medicare Part D recipients stuck in the "doughnut hole," the gap in prescription-drug coverage that exists once seniors' drug costs for the year exceed a certain amount ($2,700 in 2009). This provision would go into effect in 2010 and is expected to cost drugmakers $80 billion over 10 years. (Part D beneficiaries who get low-income subsidies, are enrolled in a retiree drug plan or earn more than $85,000 would not be eligible...