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...hurts literary journal “McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern” (with Dave Eggers as editor) published an “all-comics issue” featuring graphic novel artists. The contents included contributors as diverse as bawdy comic legend R. Crumb, the understated Canadian Seth, and existentialist horror artists Charles Burns and Adrian Tomine. Chris Ware, fresh from the impressive critical success with “Jimmy Corrigan, Smartest Kid on Earth,” served as editor...
...their governments to overturn patents in exceptional circumstances. "If Roche plays hardball," says Redpath, "governments could just say, 'we're going to overturn the patent. This is a national emergency.'" Such moves would not be unprecedented. After anthrax mailings following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks stoked biosecurity concerns, the Canadian and the U.S. government told the German drug firm Bayer that if it did not ramp up production and sell its anti-infective Cipro at a reasonable cost, they would do so themselves. Bayer wound up cutting its prices by 55% and boosted production...
...lives here and Golden for an internship with Massachusetts General Hospital.The two would train together in the boathouse, and when that got boring they would train outside together. Eventually they began rowing a pair together on the Charles, and that got them thirsting for the sweet nectar of competition.Enter Canadian Henley, a well-known regatta that ran during this summer from August 2 to 7 in St. Catherines, Ontario, and attracts teams from across North America.“We started thinking about it in June,” Rose said. “On a whim one night...
...Centers for Disease Control (CDC) considers "one of the 10 great public-health achievements of the 20th century." In the past three years, legislation to encourage fluoridation has been defeated or tabled in Oregon, Arkansas, Nebraska and Hawaii. New battles are brewing in New Jersey, Massachusetts and across the Canadian border in Montreal...
...Kleenex and other products from Kimberly-Clark, they are buying [into] ancient forest destruction,” Hunter said. A Kimberly-Clark spokesman said that the company is being unfairly targeted by the activists, pointing out that it draws less than 15 percent of its fiber from the Canadian Boreal forest. “The small percentage of Boreal fiber we use is harvested responsibly and is promptly reforested,” company spokesman David J. Dickson wrote in an e-mail. He also said that lumber companies are to blame for deforestation in Canada, writing that...