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...that Grace's U.S. patent has no effect in India, whose laws prohibit the patenting of agricultural products; Indian farmers are free to use neem seeds as they always have. Beyond that, Grace's patent may be upheld. The company found a way to treat traditional neem-seed extract to increase shelf life from weeks to years--just the sort of innovation patent laws cover. Even an environmentalist like Walt Reid of the World Resources Institute, based in Washington, admits, "I won't be surprised if the challenge doesn...
Thus there are basically only three ways to extract the necessary billions out of Medicare. One is to make Medicare beneficiaries pay more. Another is to reduce the quality and/or quantity of care that Medicare delivers. And the third is to deliver the same services more efficiently. Naturally, everyone prefers the third option. But no serious person believes that efficiency alone can produce the necessary savings. And even efficiency is not a free lunch. The fat in the current health-care financing system, both public and private, helps to support teaching hospitals, medical research and health care for people without...
...great tectonic plates that lie under North America and Eurasia. Mindful of Siberia's sorry record of leaky oil pipelines and catastrophic spills, the republic was hesitant to open this vulnerable area to drilling. Says Vasili Alekseev, the Minister of Ecology: "Since there is no truly clean technology to extract those reserves, we felt it better to create the Lena Delta Biosphere Reserve and protect the area. Perhaps in 50 or 100 years there will be a new technology for extraction, and then, if we still need oil and gas, future generations can decide whether to review the reserve...
...hurricane starts the scavengers crawling. Edie Marsh, sexy in her shoplifted wardrobe, has spent several months trolling for Kennedys, hoping to extract a little ladylike blackmail. But the Kennedy season is just about over; most of the clan has moved on to Hyannis. When the big storm blows substandard roofs off half of Dade County's ranchettes, Edie and her business partner branch out into insurance fraud. Soon the lizards are frisking: sleazy developers, mendacious salesmen, crooked building inspectors, clueless and boorish tourists. These sorry folk are what is called the fabric of society. Hiaasen's good guys...
...military. The procedures that O'Grady followed after he got on the ground were similar to the steps I took almost 51 years ago when I evaded capture in the same general area. They worked then, and still do today. In 1944 it took 13 days to extract three of us from among my crew, but then we had no radios or helicopters. O'Grady survived in a very hostile area, and fully deserves the accolades given him. Harry D. Whye, Colonel, U.S.A.F. (ret.) Bellevue, Nebraska...