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...likely create a patchwork of laws." For example, he says, data might need to be retained for anywhere from 90 days - the usual period for billing purposes - to seven years. Press-freedom groups, whose interests include the protection of news sources, are concerned as well. Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières urges telecom and Internet firms to refuse to submit to the legislation. British Telecom feels like "piggy-in-the-middle," a company spokesman says, but still must comply with the law. As the debate heats up, users of the hundreds of millions of phones and e-mail accounts...
...multinationals also have to contend with competition from generic drug makers. The Indian company Cipla plans to sell its versions of a triple-drug anti-AIDS cocktail to Médecins sans Frontières for $600 a year per patient - $200 cheaper than the least expensive brand-name cocktail. "We are offering the drugs at a humanitarian price," says Cipla chairman Yusuf K. Hamied. GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers have threatened to sue Cipla; they fear that a flood of cheap imitations in Africa could create a global black market for AIDS drugs that could undercut prices in the developed...
...SOMALIA Kidnapped A convoy of foreign aid workers was caught up in factional fighting in northern Mogadishu as they left the compound of the humanitarian agency Médecins sans Frontières. Supporters of warlord Muse Sudi Yalahow captured nine, along with two local workers, and held them hostage. Fighting then broke out between factions in Muse Sudi's group. U.N. negotiators obtained the release of seven foreign workers and two Somalis...
These courageous doctors were all volunteers and members of an extraordinary Paris-based medical organization called Médecins Sans Frontières-literally, doctors without borders. Created in 1971 by a handful of idealistic young French physicians who had served as volunteers in Biafra during the Nigerian civil war, M.S.F. membership has since grown to nearly 750 physicians and paramedics of more than a dozen nationalities, including Americans. Their basic credo: to offer medicine's healing hand to any part of the world where it may suddenly be needed...
...Fronti Nulla Fides. Cripps in his non-public character is warmly human. His family motto "Fronti Nulla Fides" (Trust Not to Outward Show) is appropriate; he scorns good fellowship in appealing to voters, preferring facts, figures and measured arguments, but British workers have always sensed the warmth of the man behind the prim bearing...