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Pfizer Inc., the world's largest pharmaceutical company, wants to shut down the Canadian pipeline used by the likes of Helen Clark and her fellow border crossers. Pfizer is aggressively seeking a pharmaceutical blacklist, warning Canadian pharmacies that if they sell drugs to Americans, Pfizer will halt supplies of all its products. The company ordered Canadian wholesale distributors to prepare reports itemizing past and present sales of its products by individual drugstores. Pfizer declined to comment to TIME. Four other companies--AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly and Wyeth--have taken steps to reduce Canadian sales...
...special unit called Task Force 20, the U.S. intends to demoralize the diehards and prove to ordinary Iraqis still wary of openly cooperating with Americans that Saddam's rule is truly over. "We are absolutely focused on making sure that we can capture all the individuals on the blacklist," General Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, told TIME...
...WTCB, or World Trade Center Bombings, this was the South Asian superpower alignment: China was Pakistan's big buddy, selling weapons and providing logistical and technical support to a state that had fallen on the U.S. blacklist after years of friendship. The U.S., meanwhile, was seen to be shifting into India's camp, evidenced by Bill Clinton's visit in 2000. In the post-WTCB world, the U.S. has had to enlist Pakistan as an ally in the war on terror, while China and India, who fought a war in 1962, have found more common ground than either side thought...
Finally, there's a community project that attacks spam the way Hollywood used to attack suspected communists: with a blacklist. For $4.99 a month, SpamNet www.cloudmark.com checks your incoming mail against its own ever expanding database. The service's 475,000-plus members contribute by "voting" on what's spam and what isn't, using the BLOCK and UNBLOCK buttons that the SpamNet program adds to your Outlook task bar. Enough votes from individual members and a message is blocked for all. With thousands of reports coming in every second, it can be pretty effective...
Jianli, a pro-democracy activist and graduate of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), went to China illegally last year using a fake passport and violating the blacklist that forbade him from entering the country. He was arrested by Chinese authorities, who have been holding him ever since...