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South Africa's 4.7 million HIV sufferers just got a double whammy of bad news. On Monday, their government revealed that it although it has won the right to import cheap copies of patent-protected AIDS drugs, it has no intention of actually buying and supplying those treatments through the public health system on which its impoverished citizenry depends. And that came on top of last week's announcement that the Bush administration will donate $200 million to a global fund to fight the AIDS pandemic in the developing world. The reason the latter is bad news is that...
...convicted customs chief Zhao came from smuggling gasoline. The racket worked like this: a tanker anchors in international waters and waits for motor launches to gather round. An auction follows, and the buyers smuggle the fuel to shore in barrels to sell to the nearest state-run station, no import duty paid. "The whole of southern China is running on smuggled gas," says Zheng. "And half the time, the government is controlling...
...SOUTH AFRICA Firms Agree to Cheaper Anti-AIDS Drugs The pharmaceutical industry abandoned its lawsuit against South Africa, opening the way for the country to import cheaper anti-AIDS drugs and other patented medicines. Giving in to a groundswell of opposition in a country where an estimated 4.7 million people are HIV positive, the 39 drug companies gave up the three-year patent protection battle. Human rights groups and AIDS activists considered the case a landmark in their efforts to obtain medication for millions in developing countries...
...policy was not designed to impress foreign views of Japan, but was in line with official propaganda, touted all over the Japanese empire, that the Japanese spirit and Japanese culture were superior to anything the West might have to offer. It was the ultimate reaction to earlier efforts to import Western civilization...
Reality-show hosts are half devil, half angel, tempter and comforter. (Think Jeff Probst offering starving Survivors extra vittles in exchange for their tent.) Not so Anne Robinson of The Weakest Link (NBC, Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.), a British import game show with a Survivor twist: players vote each other off. The dour, sarcastic host dismisses losers with a curt "You are the weakest link. Goodbye." (Thanks to NBC's weeks-long ad blitz, it may be the first TV catchphrase Americans have got sick of before its show even aired). But there's an integrity to her evil-Regis...