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...widespread that American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer says it's having a difficult time selling the real thing. Last week Pfizer's job grew even tougher. China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) overturned the company's patent rights to Viagra, potentially opening the Chinese market to a flood of cheap, locally made generic rivals...
...Nonetheless, experts say the average home price will inch higher. But there is at least one sign that real estate prices may be peaking: people are obsessed with home values, in much the same way they were with tech stocks four years ago. That's clear in a flood of new books, such as Ron LeGrand's How to Be a Quick Turn Real Estate Millionaire, Robert Allen's Nothing Down for the 2000s and Mark Weiss's Real Estate Flipping...
...only lawyers for the 14 detainees who brought suit in the Guantanamo case have been given permission to visit their clients, and it's unclear how the other detainees will find legal representation. It's also unclear where hearings will be held for the flood of petitions from all the captives now seeking their release. Officials are considering shifting detainees to the U.S. mainland, since--contrary to the hopes of the Bush Administration--the court ruled that Guantanamo falls well within the reach of U.S. law. Government officials say it is not likely that any more detainees will be sent...
There is far more to Noe's story than even a talented writer like Maine could tell in a dozen novels, though here's hoping he tries. As we learn in Genesis 9: 28, "And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years." Three hundred and fifty years? Do I smell a sequel? As Noe's wife wearily, wisely puts it, "The test doesn't end when the flood does. It's only the start." --By Lev Grossman
After only the most cursory study of Voyager's flood of data, scientists were staggered by a succession of discoveries. Many involved Saturn's rings, which until the recent finding of similar features around Uranus and Jupiter were thought to be unique. Before Voyager's visit only six Saturnian rings and a few gaps between them were known. Now there seem to be 1,000 rings or so. One of the so-called gaps may contain several dozen ringlets ... Saturn's entourage of other satellites, until now no more than bright gleams in earthly telescopes, also proliferated--by three...