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...press, officials contend, just doesn't realize that conservation alone cannot solve the problem. Every new policy position requires educating the press as well as the public, but the White House posture on the energy plan is that this task will be harder than ever. Their strategy? Repeat, repeat, repeat...
...jumps, no one in the Ivies is close to Harvard. Senior Dora Gyorffy is the nation's best in the high jump, and sophomore Kart Siilats was this year's NCAA Indoor champion. Brown's Lindsay Taylor has made strides in the high jump as of late and could contend for second...
Protesters charge that the report is inadequate, and contend that the University has failed to heed its own recommendations...
...multinationals also have to contend with competition from generic drug makers. The Indian company Cipla plans to sell its versions of a triple-drug anti-AIDS cocktail to Médecins sans Frontières for $600 a year per patient - $200 cheaper than the least expensive brand-name cocktail. "We are offering the drugs at a humanitarian price," says Cipla chairman Yusuf K. Hamied. GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers have threatened to sue Cipla; they fear that a flood of cheap imitations in Africa could create a global black market for AIDS drugs that could undercut prices in the developed...
...kreung. Now 20, Young is the first Thai to sign a contract with a major U.S. label, Warner Brothers Records (owned by AOL Time Warner, parent company of Time), which she hopes will elevate her into the Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera pantheon. Back at home, Young has to contend with a gaggle of luk kreung clones who mimic her brand of bubble-gum pop. The hottest act now is a septet called, less-than-imaginatively, Seven, and three out of seven are of mixed race...