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...plan, announced by CEO Andrew Witty on February 13 in a speech delivered at Harvard Medical School, would limit prices in the 50 least developed countries and give back a portion of the profits gained in these countries toward programs to expand their health-care capacity. More surprisingly, GSK also announced that it would allow outside researchers access to some of its patented medical technologies in an effort to facilitate more research aimed at so-called “neglected diseases,” or diseases that currently suffer from a severe lack of research funding...

Author: By Karolina Maciag, Shamsher S. Samra, and Sarah E. Sorscher | Title: Harvard as Big Pharma | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...school there is de facto segregation and exclusivity,” Navarro says. “It is important to promote a community of acceptance and diversity, and that’s what Eleganza does.”MODELING SEXUAL ORIENTATIONThis year, the organizers of Eleganza hope to expand their mission of promoting diversity in the arts by addressing the issue of homosexuality. The 2009 show is funded in part by a grant received from The Open Gate Foundation, managed by the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus. The criterion for the grant’s award is rather open-ended...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Posing a Problem | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...from Cabic and Banhart’s own label Gnomonsong is evident in the production of the album, with a sound that is cleaner and more expansive than Vetiver’s previous recordings. The major label seems to serve Cabic well, and he takes advantage of this to expand the instrumentation and variety of his songs. The album starts off with the aptly titled “Rolling Sea,” a sensitive fingerpicked ballad, decorated with piano and steel guitar, that would fit in on any previous Vetiver record. This is followed by “Sister...

Author: By Spencer Burke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vetiver | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

Bobby Jindal, Louisiana The rumored 2012 presidential candidate deems it "irresponsible" to expand unemployment insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...Senator or Representative, despite a population (nearly 600,000) larger than Wyoming's. That curious disenfranchisement may soon change, however, as a bill advances through Congress that would finally give D.C. a House member. On Feb. 24, the Senate voted to allow debate on the plan, which would expand the House to 437 members, its first enlargement in nearly 100 years. The bill would also grant Utah another vote until the next reapportionment in 2012, maintaining the body's partisan balance as D.C.'s addition would almost certainly be a Democrat and Utah's a Republican. (See pictures from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington, D.C. | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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