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...pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb to cut down 38,000 Pacific yew trees for one such substance. The bark of the yew tree is the sole source for a drug called taxol, a promising treatment for breast and ovarian cancer. Despite concerns over the impact of the yew harvest, most environmental groups support the agreement because it specifies that Bristol-Myers will pay for Forest Service research into conservation and management of the yews...
...Delta also yielded a great harvest of blues singers, spawned in the sorrow of the sharecroppers' shotgun shacks (so called because the rooms are one behind the other, allowing a shot fired through the front door to sail straight out the back door -- unless something gets in the way). Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, James ("Son") Thomas -- most of modern American music has its roots in the Delta. Big Jack ("the Oil Man") Johnson plays there now, one of many with more coming on, including his nephew, James ("Super Chicken") Johnson...
...everybody had an identical twin from which to harvest organs, such drugs would be unnecessary. Failing that, doctors try, where possible, to find the closest approximation of a twin: a good genetic match. In a feat every bit as heroic as cracking the Enigma code during World War II, immunologists have determined just what makes for a good tissue match. Research dating from the 1960s shows that the immune system has developed its own set of molecular passwords, called human leukocyte antigens, that identify every nerve, every capillary, every organ as either friend or foe. If a cell displays...
...thieves still reap a rich harvest. Inadequate protection of U.S. patents, trademarks and copyrights costs the U.S. economy $80 billion in sales lost to pirates and 250,000 jobs every year, according to Gary Hoffman, an intellectual-property attorney at Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin in Washington. The computer industry loses upwards of $4 billion of revenues a year to illegal copying of software programs. Piracy of movies, books and recordings costs the entertainment business at least $4 billion annually...
...with the reactionaries. If he sticks with them, he may save his position of power but lose his place in history. It would be tragic if he were to suffer the fate of so many reformers in the past: those who plant the seeds of reform seldom reap the harvest...