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...Federal Trade Commission (FTC), though, argued in June that giving biologics makers any period of exclusivity at all could actually stifle innovation. Biologics are so much more complex and expensive to produce than traditional drugs that the barriers to would-be "biosimilar" competitors are already high, the FTC said. Giving biologics further protection - particularly the 12 years of exclusivity that the industry wants - would merely encourage firms to tinker with what they have rather than drive them toward "new inventions to address unmet medical needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Drug-Industry Lobbyists Won on Health-Care | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is an ever more embarrassing problem for President Barack Obama. Once a powerful campaign line, the idea of closing the prison is now such a source of heated political debate on Capitol Hill and such a complex legal challenge that the Administration is unlikely to meet its self-imposed deadline of shutting the place down by late January 2010. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Tribunals Make Closing Gitmo a Tough Goal | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...then pick the 10% that are the best. That's how you do it, and that's completely the opposite of the way we do it now. Right now we're acting out a fiction, which is that we can tell whether someone's good at this enormously complex thing called teaching before they've ever taught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Malcolm Gladwell | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...differences in the American life experienced between races are not simply the derivatives of wealth inequality. In fact, this wealth inequality is derivative to complex historical and social influences that cannot be corrected for simply with an evaluation of one’s social and economic status that devalues race. Socioeconomic affirmative action considers metrics that encapsulate only part of the experience of being a minority in America...

Author: By Derrick Asiedu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DISSENT: Affirmative Action | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...rambling slide-show lecture on Sufficiency Economy to members of a local chamber of commerce (some of whom snoozed in the tropical heat), there was no doubting the commander's sincere belief that the project would promote the Thai nation's cause in the south. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the complex, young Buddhist army officers earnestly gave lessons on proper fertilizer use to groups of veiled Muslim women, some of whom were completely covered but for their eyes. (The area of Malaysia bordering Thailand's Yala province is among the most conservative in that Southeast Asian nation, and the local Kelantan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Promoting Peace Through Organic Farming in Thailand | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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