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Finally, we are unconvinced that Ashcroft would consistently serve the public interest. He has been dubbed "the senator from Claritin" by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for his efforts to help the drug's producer, Schering-Plough, evade patent limitations and keep low-cost generic versions off of the market. Consumers would lose $11 billion from the extension and receive nothing in return; Ashcroft, on the other hand, received a $50,000 campaign donation...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Mixed Bush Cabinet | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...them. Then reality caused Dash to change course quickly. Before he could sell the consumers websites, Dash needed to go back a step: turns out that a lot of inner-city African Americans still didn't own computers. So DME's new goal became filling that need by selling low-cost computers in the urban marketplace, in effect acting as general contractor in the project to build a bridge over the digital divide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Multimillion-Dollar Dash | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

Research firm InfoTrends in Boston estimates that more than 80 million people worldwide will be transmitting digital images on the go by 2004. While some will do this using cameras like the i700, others will use cell phones with built-in lenses or handheld PCs with camera attachments. Low-cost camera sensors can be added to a cell phone for as little as $30. In Japan, a cell phone released by J-Phone this fall includes a built-in digital camera that lets users snap low-resolution photos of themselves, then e-mail them to friends. In the U.S., people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take A Picture That Can Fly | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...controlled by American Airlines. He has been merging it into the world's 11th largest airline: Air Canada has almost 80% of the air-travel market within Canada and controls about 43% of the traffic between Canada and the U.S. The airline has plans to start a low-cost carrier in 2001 that will compete directly with the five domestic firms still aloft. And because Air Canada is the only international carrier with regularly scheduled flights across Canada, it has played hardball with giants like British Airways, hiking the price BA paid Canadian Airlines to have its passengers flown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Plane Spotter | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...sacred" places! A good solution would be to level Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif and build low-cost housing for the poor. I am certain that God (if he exists) would approve. Harold A. Falconer Farmington, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 6, 2000 | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

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