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...hear its critics talk, W.R. Grace & Co., based in Boca Raton, Florida, is nothing less than a den of international pirates. Its crime: patenting a pesticide made from seeds of the Indian neem tree. "Genetic colonialism," thunders the self-proclaimed scientific watchdog Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, who is leading a coalition of 200 scientific, academic and farm organizations from 37 countries that filed a petition last week to have the patent revoked. Not only is Grace's pesticide based on an ancient and widely known extraction process, the coalition claims, but it will force Indian...
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Members of Congress recently filed their 1993 financial-disclosure forms, which reveal the number of free trips they took. While the travel -- much of it with spouses -- comes in the midst of lobby reform, our representatives ( still managed to cover a lot of territory, from Switzerland to Boca Raton, Florida, thanks to the largess of corporations, think tanks and legislative service organizations...
...matters stand, it's perfectly legal for members to accept speechmaking or "briefing" invitations from well-heeled lobbyists -- typically at cushy resorts in balmier climes during dreary winter months. Last January, for example, U.S. Tobacco staged a legislative briefing in Boca Raton, Florida, with 17 past and present members of Congress. In April, 10 members and their spouses spent four days and three nights at the South Seas Plantation resort off Florida's Gulf Coast, with airfares, hotel bills and, of course, greens fees paid for by the Electronics Industries Association...