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...dragnet, since most of those arrested are Varela activists. Paya himself, who last year won the E.U.'s Sakharov Award for human rights, remains free, at least for now. "I'm waiting for the knock on the door any moment now," he told TIME last week. - By Tim Padgett...
...Padgett's assertion that the Bush Administration opposes the sharing of benefits from commercialization of traditional knowledge ["Jungle Medicine," Nov. 25, 2002] is incorrect. On the contrary, President Bush has consistently encouraged the sharing of benefits derived from the knowledge of indigenous and local communities, and the U.S. is actively engaged in ongoing discussions within the U.N. World Intellectual Property Organization. One of our goals there is to encourage countries to establish systems to provide access and benefit sharing between the holders of traditional knowledge and the users of that knowledge. JAMES ROGAN Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
...famous northern Italian, Marco Polo, and went to China, where she managed ventures for Italian telecoms in the 1980s and '90s, an experience that honed her negotiating skills. Says Cico: "My parents taught me that if you have integrity, you should never be afraid to speak up." --By Tim Padgett. With reporting by Sol Biderman/Sao Paulo
...Padgett reported on the political movement in Bolivia and elsewhere in South America to let the growth of coca leaves flourish, even though they are the raw material of cocaine [LETTER FROM BOLIVIA, Aug. 5]. Despite the fact that it is American citizens who abuse drugs, the U.S. government targets the farmers who grow coca rather than the users of cocaine. Other countries are told that they are responsible for restricting drugs supplied to the U.S., but it is clear that without a market here, the farmers, drug cartels and pushers would have no one to buy the products...
...PADGETT "While a reporter in Chicago in the 1980s, I often covered the city's Latino street-gang culture. So when the Jose Padilla story broke last week, I felt as though I knew this guy. What I wasn't as familiar with, however, was the Muslim culture Jose had embraced here in Florida in the early '90s, especially the extremist brand of Islam he later adopted. As a result, to explain this tragic turn his life took, I relied on Islamic community leaders in Broward County and colleagues like Hasnain to help me understand the thuggish subculture that...