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...perfectly legal. Thanks to U.K. design rights law - which holds that the rights on a design last a maximum of 25 years, instead of 70 as in much of Europe - British furniture stores and websites are legitimately selling copies of the Egg chair, for example, for a fraction of the original's $5,000 price tag. "A commercial decision was taken to use some reproduction similar chairs," Lorraine Homer, spokeswoman for McDonald's in the U.K., tells TIME via e-mail. "Whilst we wish to continue placing Fritz Hansen chairs at some restaurants, using an off-the-peg alternative allows...
...about is war and more war.” And Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-MA) wailed, “the same President who is willing to throw away half a trillion dollars in Iraq is unwilling to spend a small fraction of that amount to bring health care to American children.” The Democrats must have known for months that the President would veto such a large expansion of the program, yet they went ahead with it to score political points...
...three years before she fled into exile under a cloud of as yet unanswered corruption charges. But while thousands of her supporters have promised to welcome her home, leaders of her Pakistan People's Party concede that the size of the crowds will likely be but a fraction of the millions that turned out to cheer her triumphant return in 1988, to claim her father's mantle and lead the country back to democracy after a decade of military rule...
...uncertain. In 13 years, the Tanzania-based international court has spent more than $1 billion and completed just 33 cases. Those figures rankle the Rwandans, who believe they could have accomplished more at home, more quickly and with less cash. But finding the suspects - even for such a tiny fraction of the country's likely killers - is a challenge. "International justice does not come cheap," says Roland Amoussouga, spokesman for the ICTR. Tribunal funds have had to cover everything from locating and indicting the suspects to negotiating their transfer - from countries as far-flung as Cameroon and Zambia, Switzerland...
...allegations "are simply untrue" and is fighting the charges against a trial it calls "responsible and ethical.") And on a continent where 2.1 million people die of HIV/AIDS a year and 2.8 million more are infected - making a total of 24.7 million people in need of drugs, a fraction of whom actually get them - drug companies operating in Africa have been accused of complicity in a 21st century catastrophe...