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Fineberg underscored the importance of protecting patents on scientific discoveries for both academics and those who benefit from their work...
Jessica's parents seemed determined to give their daughter independence from the start: she was delivered in a birthing tub without benefit of doctor or midwife. Her mother Lisa Blair Hathaway says she wanted her daughter to have a feeling of "floating." Her parents seemed to embrace a philosophy that was a mishmash of '60s idealism, Emersonian self-reliance and New Age cliche. Hathaway describes herself as an artist and a spiritual healer. While Jessica was mostly raised in Massachusetts, she lived in Pescadero, California, a tiny onetime fishing village where old dogs lazily patrol the streets because there...
...company and formed the Enterprise Foundation, which has financed 61,000 homes for the poor since 1981 and worked on solving inner-city problems like joblessness and drugs. Profit, he insisted, should never be the primary motive for a developer: "What should be important is to produce something of benefit to mankind. If that happens, then the profit will be there." Rouse was one master builder whose idealism, like his ideas, never flagged...
...whose unusual talent sweeps her away into tournament tennis or the Broadway theater, some parents have a disturbing tendency to forget that children are just that: children. "The key is balance," says David Fassler, child and adolescent psychiatrist at Choate Health Management in Boston. "Kids need, want and benefit from clear, predictable boundaries...
...disgrace, Dan Rostenkowski, the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has managed to leave his influential imprint. During two years of aggressive court challenges that led up to Rostenkowski's plea bargain last week, his lawyers blazed a trail of legal precedents that could significantly benefit future suspected congressional culprits. One decision makes it more difficult to prosecute breaches of less-than-crystal-clear congressional rules; it has already been used to throw out charges against former Ohio Representative Mary Rose Oakar for writing bad checks to the now defunct House bank. Another Rosty precedent is expected...