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Tech powers IBM, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! and financial firms like American Express and Goldman Sachs control hundreds of such business-method patents for everything from search-engine optimization to risk assessment. And if you have ever bought something on Amazon, you've probably used the company's patented 1-Click ordering process. (See the 50 best websites...
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...researchers' best guesses so far is that women with HSDD have low levels of testosterone. Indeed, the condition affects mainly postmenopausal women or those who have had their ovaries surgically removed, which leads to a drop in sex hormones - namely testosterone. Many American women already use testosterone treatments off-label to treat their low libidos, and doctors attest that they work. But past efforts by drugmakers to get such treatments approved by the FDA specifically for HSDD have been blocked for safety concerns. Intrinsa, a testosterone patch manufactured by Procter & Gamble, is used to treat female sexual dysfunction in postmenopausal...
Former Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger called the American court-martial system "the most enlightened military code in history" - but few would call it perfect. In an unusual public ceremony in Seattle last year, the Army apologized for the wrongful convictions of 28 African-American soldiers of the 43 tried in the largest and longest court-martial of World War II. Most of the men were convicted of rioting amid a 1944 melee at Fort Lawton in which an Italian prisoner of war was lynched; two were convicted of manslaughter. A 2005 book detailing misconduct by prosecutors prompted an Army...
...people enrolled, Hasan went straight into the program from his residency at Walter Reed, the Army's flagship hospital. That meant he had spent nearly a decade - medical school, residency and the fellowship - largely as a student before heading to the Texas Army post in July. "The American taxpayer gave this guy advanced degrees, and the bastard murdered 13 people," says the first classmate...