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...health care, and the foreclosure crisis. To many, the election of Barack Obama proves our willingness as a nation to confront and solve these challenges. To Harvard professor Michael Sandel, the citizens of America spoke with their votes and “rejected these narrow notions of the common good.” He told Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, in a November 5 column, that this expanded notion of the common good “must also be about a new patriotism — about what it means to be a citizen...
...course, while famous epidemics have killed more people than world wars, there’s little chance that getting vaccinated will save your life. Complications are common only in the elderly, small children, and people with chronic medical conditions like asthma or diabetes...
...Often people are confused about the severity of getting the flu because the term is thrown around to describe a bad cold. The reality is more sobering: Flu symptoms can last weeks and are generally much more severe and incapacitating than common colds...
...drug giants use various measures to hold up the release of cheaper copies of their brand-name drugs when patents expire, the Commission said. The most common tactic allegedly involves filing multiple patent applications for the same medicine - so-called patent clusters - that stake out an extremely broad claim for a drug's intended use and physical form (for instance, whether as a liquid, a capsule or a pill). In one case, the E.U. found 1,300 patents for a single medicine. Other tactics condemned by the Commission include launching litigation that lasts nearly three years on average, and lobbying...
Property-marking systems are fairly common, but few are robust enough to link a suspect to both the booty and the crime scene. Indelible but normally invisible, SmartWater can be painted onto valuable items or rigged as a spray to tag thieves or intruders. And because each bottle contains a unique permutation of up to 30 chemical compounds, any trace of it can be incontrovertibly matched to an ownership database as well as to the time and place of a recorded crime...