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...study settings that the contagion of happiness is spreading. Christakis and Fowler noticed that people who are smiling on their Facebook pages tend to cluster together, forming an online social circle like a delirious flock of cyberbirds. And while some of this joy can certainly be traced to the copycat effect--if your friends post smiling pictures, you might feel like a grouch if you don't too--Christakis and Fowler are analyzing the clusters to see if something more infectious might be at work...
...continuing wave of taxi strikes underlines a danger that the more upfront coverage of controversial issues carries with it: the danger of copycat incidents in other parts of the country. With the police detaining or jailing leaders of some of the strikes, those involved are understandably reluctant to discuss their motivations. But many observers believe that there is little doubt the lengthy coverage of the strikes in the official media was seen as a form of legitimization by later strikers. "There have been taxi-driver strikes occasionally in the past a few years, but never so many in such...
...pharmaceutical industry is one of the few sectors around that appears to be weathering these difficult times with relative ease. On Friday the European Commission suggested why that might be: it claims Big Pharma systematically rigged the market to squeeze out copycat medicines...
...European medicines market is worth over $175 billion. Europeans spend some $275 billion a year on pharmaceutical products - an average of $550 for every man, woman and child. But generic medicines can cost as much as 90% less than branded drugs: total savings gained by copycat drugs entry amounted to at least $17 billion over the 2000-2007 period examined by the Commission. Without these savings, the total expenditure for the medicines would have been more than 25% higher...
...that there was one for everybody. But the papers were suspiciously free and had this massive headline across the top: "IRAQ WAR ENDS." Hmm. A closer look revealed that the papers, dated July 4, 2009, weren't the product of the New York Times but an elaborately constructed copycat version with articles like...