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...urging contract cancellation. Harvard was also absent from a May 2005 meeting in Washington, DC, between concerned college administrators and students and Coca-Cola executives, according to Coca-Cola spokeswoman Kari Bjorhus. A working group created after the meeting has been in collaboration with the soft drink company to develop assessment protocols of its business practices that the colleges will feel comfortable with, Bjorhus said. In response to the accusations made against Coca-Cola, Snyder wrote in an e-mail, “The alleged environmental and human rights abuses by Coca-Cola or their competitors are a matter...
...experimental anthrax treatments (although that money is not coming from the BioShield fund), and a contract for a new smallpox vaccine is expected in 2006. But more than a year into the program, drug companies still complain that they don't have a clear sense of what to develop and how much the feds will buy. Although HHS has formally identified four threats--anthrax, smallpox, botulinum toxin, and radiological and nuclear devices--that's only the first step. Requests for treatments must then be issued, competing drug proposals have to be evaluated, and the White House's Office of Management...
Overall, it's a cumbersome process that can leave companies with promising treatments in limbo for years. "You wouldn't expect a defense contractor to build an aircraft carrier without a contract, but they're expecting pharmaceutical companies to develop these drugs without contracts," says Richard Hollis, CEO of Hollis-Eden, a San Diego biotech hoping to sell the government a treatment for acute radiation syndrome (a blood sickness caused by a dirty bomb or nuclear explosion). Hollis says his company has spent $100 million on the drug, Neumeune, betting the feds would stockpile doses for 12 million...
...since—same questions, just rotating open-ended items.” In addition, students have had a more consistent channel of communication with HUDS since the creation of the HUDS Student Advisory Committee last year, which Snyder said will work with dining services “to develop new recipes, programs and ideas, as well as questions for future surveys.” Davis said that the committee seeks to convert student enthusiasm gauged on the survey into results. “That’s something we can translate into policy by speaking with the people...
...home. The Bush Administration's legal tactics, given wide berth initially by the courts, have begun running into trouble. In its Hamdi ruling, the Supreme Court also challenged the Administration's policy of depriving suspected terrorists designated enemy combatants of any legal review. The court ordered the government to develop a process that would allow the more than 600 enemy combatants at the U.S. naval base at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, to challenge their detention...