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BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY TREATY June 1992 The U.S. held out on a treaty calling for protection of threatened species and sharing of biotechnological advances, charging that the pact failed to offer patent protection to its bioengineering companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unilateralism Is U.S. | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...Andrew Meier: We saw a rather bizarre example of President Vladimir Putin's bifurcated foreign policy at work during her visit. Just as he concluded a friendship pact with China that expressed opposition to missile defense before flying off to Genoa where he was all smiles with President Bush, this week saw Moscow combining the Rice visit with a 6,000-mile train trip to Moscow by North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il. It was a bizarre spectacle - Kim traveled across Russia's far east on a train that included 21 Japanese-made armored carriages, with darkened windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: N. Korean Crashes Condi's Party | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

...notion of a vendetta shouldn't be overplayed: shares in a company called HdP, whose investments include the newspaper Corriere della Serra and the designer Valentino, shot up briefly this month on hopes that Fiat might lead a raid there as well. Fiat had declined to renew a syndicate pact with other HdP shareholders, including Mediobanca. Last week, however, Fiat rejoined that club. The fact is that Fiat's interest in Montedison - or, more precisely, in Montedison's majority stake in energy producer Edison - makes sense on its merits. Margins in the car business are frustratingly low. Italian electricity, meanwhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of The Affair | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...possibilities are, in fact, twins - the dark and light sides of the Western intellectual quest. You see the twinning in the Faust legend. In the Medieval reading of it, Faust is damned to hell for his pact to obtain supernatural powers of knowledge from the devil - an act of human encroachment upon divine prerogatives. But (as Roger Shattuck points out in his splendid book "Forbidden Knowledge"), the Enlightenment gave Faust an opposite reading. The German dramatist G.E. Lessing's Faust, in the mid-eighteenth century, was not damned for his pact with the devil, but, on the contrary, saved, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Faustian Bargain of Stem Cell Research | 7/12/2001 | See Source »

...Thursday, Dr. Gray was on "Good Morning America," telling Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson that he and his patient had a pact: "He's going to take me fishing and teach me how to bass fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: The Artificial Heart Recipient | 7/5/2001 | See Source »

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