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...entice more drugmakers into biodefense, North Carolina Senator Richard Burr is sponsoring a bill that would establish a Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA) headed by a biosecurity czar. (Estimated cost: $1 billion annually.) His bill would require the government to make gradual payments to drug companies based on R&D milestones, similar to the way defense contracting works, and would grant companies a 10-year period of market exclusivity for drugs designated as countermeasures. (Drug-patent terms typically vary depending on the date the application was filed and when the product is actually marketed.) More controversial, the bill...
...intercepts are just one instance of the Bush Administration's effort to pursue the war on terrorism unhindered by some long-established legal norms. Most Americans agree that the government has to go after terrorists aggressively and with all appropriate means. Where they part company is on the question of what means are appropriate, at least if the goal is not only to deter another attack but also to protect both the freedom of Americans and the reputation of their country as one that takes ideas like decency and justice seriously. In the White House version of how that struggle...
Before heading to Congress, Republican J.D. Hayworth of Arizona was a sportscaster with a signature home-run call: "It's vapor!" Now the conservative Hayworth, 47, is making a similar charge about President Bush's plan to tighten the border with Mexico and establish a limited guest-worker program. He is about to publish an anti-immigration manifesto, Whatever It Takes, that should rile up right-wing radio just as the White House was hoping to gain traction for a broad immigration-reform package...
...perimeter, they’ve got power players inside. They’ve just got a lot of answers.”After Harvard recovered to make the score 19-10 on a three pointer by junior shooting guard Jim Goffredo, the Eagles scored the next eight points to establish the cushion they would maintain for the rest of the game. The crucial spurt was keyed by BC's fantastic freshmen, as point guard Tyrese Rice nailed a pair of three pointers sandwiched by a bucket from guard Marquez Haynes. The Crimson was unable to even get a shot...
...group of department and committee chairs that first met last February in response to growing dissatisfaction with University President Lawrence H. Summers’ leadership has continued to meet behind closed doors this fall, seeking to establish itself as a prominent force in the governance of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), according to minutes of some of the group’s meetings that were obtained by The Crimson...