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...buoys and underwater sensors needed to monitor earthquakes and tsunamis in the region, a greater problem exists. The monitoring system is of very little use if the information from warnings cannot be distributed quickly and effectively. Unfortunately, many of the coastal villages affected by the two disasters lack the basic modern communication technology necessary to respond. Without telephones and effective response plans, the early-warning systems will be of little use to the devastated areas...
...attention to questions of technology policy, they don’t do so by virtue of morals, or even idle curiosity. They do so because they are surprised to find that the rules that govern the world behind their computer screen simply don’t conform to their basic intuitions about governance and ethics...
Your editorial “AP-ing the News” (Mar. 21) violates a basic journalistic principle: you erroneously take the Associated Press to task for violating a basic principle of our journalism without even bothering to call us for comment. Our new “optional lead” initiative to provide newspapers with an additional way to compete for readers is rooted in a basic tenet of AP journalism: impartiality. You equate different styles of writing a spot news story with changing the facts. Facts remain the same. Objective journalistic styles for writing facts are myriad...
...maker Allergan, which disputes StriVectin's advertising claims, and from StriVectin itself, against alleged copycat marketers pushing similarly named knock-offs. Priced at a hefty $135 per 6-oz. tube, StriVectin, made by privately held Klein-Becker, a division of Salt Lake City, Utah-- based weight-loss-supplement maker Basic Research, last year tallied an estimated $60 million in sales, almost double the sales that a new skin-care product typically generates in its first year in U.S. department stores, according to NPD, a market-research firm. Clearly, for every vain soul who has undergone a dermatological procedure, there...
...worry about. There is competition from alleged knock-off brands, which so far has prompted the firm to file 16 trademark-infringement suits in federal court. Then there's a Federal Trade Commission suit scheduled for trial in July against Klein-Becker and its parent firm, Basic Research, alleging that its ads for several weight-loss supplements and tummy-flattening gels are misleading, although a spokesperson for Klein-Becker (which denies the charges) notes that StriVectin plays no part in that case...