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Eastern Europe is now playing catch-up. Poland has one of the world's fastest-growing cardboard-box industries. But the region in which box manufacturing is expanding most rapidly (20% over the past five years) is in Central and South America, says industry analyst Paul Bailin. Brazil, Costa Rica and others are building box factories to export avocados, coffee and other produce...
...Bears’ Meghan Schreck scored past the outstretched hands of Harvard sophomore goalkeeper Katie Shields in the seventh minute of the contest, beginning a game of catch-up that lasted the entire match...
...will continue its rallying cry for a viable effort in Iraq or instead lower its voice to a whimper, foreshadowing a muffled withdrawal from its current commitment. Do we have a serious, reality-based strategy capable of moving events in Iraq in our favor, or merely an incrementalist, catch-up mentality which will ultimately prove its own insufficiency...
Until universities begin to adopt more exacting policies, activists like those at Yale will be playing a perpetual game of catch-up. Every new d4T will mean yet another battle, another struggle for access. This is not a sustainable solution. At the University of Minnesota, for example, students are currently struggling to get their school to drop developing-country patents on Abacavir, another critical AIDS drug. We need to nip these problems in the bud. Universities like Harvard should adopt policies that ensure that their health-related discoveries truly benefit the global public welfare...
Even though iTunes' reach is limited to the 3% of computer users on Macintoshes (a PC version is due by year's end), Apple's success has left the others playing catch-up. Many Internet music services require monthly subscriptions to listen to songs over the computer or extra fees for downloading them (often with complicated and varying stipulations). Some services, like Listen.com's Rhapsody, plan to stick with the subscription format, but Rhapsody also plans to offer an a la carte option for nonsubscribers...