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...communities and wildlife from what they call "biocolonialism" or "biopiracy." The governments are drafting strict laws to ensure that the world's 300 million mostly poor tribal people share in the wealth that their knowledge helps create. One of the newer strategies is for governments or indigenous communities to obtain commercial patent rights on medicines and other products divined in animals and plants before the labs can muscle in. (None of the new laws are retroactive.) They also hope to make biocolonialism a key global trade issue at next month's meeting of the U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization...
...contributing to the American economy. Strangely enough, until last week it seemed that the government was moving in the wrong direction on this key issue. In late October, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) slipped an amendment into an appropriations bill that would have raised the fee employers pay to obtain an H-1B for an employee from $1,500 to $5,000. Thankfully, the provision, which would have taxed companies for trying to recruit top talent to America, appears to have vanished in conference committee in the last few days. The controversy over fees, however, is a red herring...
...Rather than making sure that the uninsured have a sufficient amount of choice, a single-payer system often forces everyone to have the same choice, which has an insidious flipside. In Canada this meant that no one could sacrifice more to obtain better or more prompt treatment. It was only in 2005 that the Canadian Supreme court struck down a Quebec law forbidding private insurance for medically necessary operations, claiming that it violated the defendant’s right to person...
...Service is still expending resources to defend the U.K. against unreconstructed attempts by Russia, China and others, to spy on us," Evans complained. "A number of countries continue to devote considerable time and energy trying to steal our sensitive technology on civilian and military projects, and trying to obtain political and economic intelligence at our expense. It is a matter of some disappointment to me that I still have to devote significant amounts of equipment, money and staff to countering this threat. They are resources which I would far rather devote to countering the threat from international terrorism - a threat...
...many French opposition politicians asked whether French government officials had long been aware of Zoe's Ark's intention to smuggle the children out of Chad, but failed to do anything about it. Sarkozy looks destined to face criticism either way: that he didn't originally do enough to obtain the extradition of Zoe's Ark workers; or he did, and thus showed disdain for Chad's justice system...