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Huge legal expenses and 13 years later, the two men behind the case, Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw, had their day in the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 9. Most legal experts though, agreed that the duo had no chance of victory. "I don't think anyone other than Bilski thinks that Bilski deserves a patent," says Mark Lemley, a professor of law at Stanford University. (See the 50 best inventions...
...about a decade, roughly since the FDA approved Viagra for sexual dysfunction in men, drug companies have been searching for the female version of the little blue pill, a drug to cure what ails women like Wendy in bed. But what ails them - a psychiatric condition known as hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), defined as a distressing lack of sexual desire, absent other medical conditions - has been notoriously difficult to pin down. (See how to prevent illness...
...women are complex and so are their libidos. Which is why the quest to treat HSDD has been so fraught. It is far more difficult than, for instance, treating men's complaints about erectile dysfunction. Viagra works simply by increasing blood flow to the penis and producing an erection. In women, the issue is not about wanting to have sex and being physically unable; rather, it's often that women lose interest in sex altogether, especially with the partner who once excited them. Beyond the many and varied psychological roots of the problem, there is still much that...
...protests early next year, and if so, Abbas' Fatah party may decide that the best way to regain its legitimacy with the Palestinian voters and win back support lost to Hamas will be to condone open resistance against the Israelis. If that happens, it's unlikely that Dayton's men will be able - or even willing - to stop an outbreak of anti-Israeli violence in the West Bank...
...certain European political and intellectual circles, such talk would hardly turn heads. But those three men wagging their fingers at the free market were thought to have their capitalist bona fides as part of a generation of European business and government leaders who had pushed for reforming the welfare system and opening up the job market. Often in open ideological war against the entrenched interests of labor unions and leftist politicians, the likes of Sarkozy and Tremonti had long insisted that free-market reforms were the only way to create a more dynamic Europe in an increasingly competitive globalized economy...