Word: genericism
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...same time the AIDS rebels hit on another front. The tac's chairman, Zackie Achmat, went to Brazil to obtain a consignment of cheap, generic antiretroviral drugs for a program of treatment of 85 HIV/AIDS victims, adults and children, in the black township of Khayelitsha, outside of Cape Town. Achmat's shopping trip to Brazil was in open defiance of South Africa's patents law. "Potentially we face a civil action from the drugs companies," said Achmat last week. "We'll just have to wait and see." But public opinion is so firmly behind the activists that drugmakers in South...
...individuality of modern Americans. Today’s average American reader watches the same television, reads the same novels and holds roughly the same outlook on the outside world as his suburban nextdoor neighbor. The reader empathizes with Ford’s characters because their fictional lives are as generic and homogeneous...
...formula for providing discounted drugs to developing nations dealing with major disease outbreaks. Big drugmakers are still playing hardball, though. Adamant about safeguarding the patent profits that fund drug development, the companies work hard at extending the life of their patents to keep them out of the hands of generic drug makers...
...this is an innocent enough request, the brunt of the departments’ pressure falls on the junior faculty to produce academic work worthy of tenure. Faculty members say that this is an inherent part of academia, but at Harvard this pressure is magnified. Though tenure is certainly a generic debate not unique to Harvard, there is always some “tenseness surrounding the fact that the future for junior faculty is uncertain,” Buell says. “If you’re senior faculty, you’re an oligarch. Junior faculty can?...
...producing Windows-compatible versions of iPod, but making tools for operating systems other than his own has never been his style. Better to hope iPod shakes up the MP3 industry the way the iMac shook up the makers of boxy beige PCs. There will probably be lots of generic cut-price, cross-platform knock-offs of the iPod by Christmas...