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That would have surprised the Jamestown settlers, who faced an array of challenges, all of them together crushing. It was a project of the London Co., a group of merchants with a royal patent: Imagine that Congress gave Wal-Mart and General Electric permission to colonize Mars. But of necessity, the day-to-day decisions were made in Jamestown, and its leaders were always fighting. Leaders who were incompetent or unpopular--sometimes the most competent were the least popular--were deposed on the spot. The typical 17th century account of Jamestown argues that everything would have gone well if everyone...
...UAEM National Day of Action to raise awareness about the connection between university research and global health. To illustrate the impact students can have on drug affordability, Kim discussed the student activism that led to the launch of UAEM. In the early 1990s, Yale University licensed an exclusive patent for a newly discovered HIV drug to pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb, making the drug unaffordable for most patients in developing countries. In 2001, a group of Yale students formed Universities Allied for Essential Medicine and pressured their university and Bristol-Myers to allow the distribution of a generic version that...
...aspect of its secret formula, while Stepan did not respond to requests to discuss its relationship with Coca-Cola. This coca without the cocaine element is the only exemption allowed by the U.N. for the plant's usage outside of the Andes and it is not clear whether patent law would allow Bolivia to use the same process as Stepan does to remove the cocaine alkaloid...
...role as a distributor that fashions content into made-for-mobile programs such as Fox Sports and ABC News Now as well as unique content channels. "At the end of the day, we're an enabler," she says with buoyant vitality, accented by hair nearly as orange as her patent-leather shoes...
Mirror, Mirror This page, from top: Manolo Blahnik Thymesli slingback ($565, 800-937-9146); Salvatore Ferragamo patent-leather sandal with mirrored heel ($690, 212-759-3822). Opposite page: Fendi Crossword bag ($1,440, 800-FENDI...