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...models parading across this stylish site's home page will put you right in the mood--to spend two or three bills on boots. Click to zoom in on these patent-leather Stand Ups, and you'll get a much better view of the front zipper...
...Zuckerberg says they backed out when they began to suspect that the multi-billion dollar corporation was going to rip them off. To ensure that they weren’t going to be taken advantage of, Zuckerberg and D’Angelo split the $12,000 price of a patent, confident that their company’s future profits would...
Other highlights of the store include its great bag collection (a perfect Ferragamo patent leather handbag for $108 and a cute, lime green Longchamps tote for $42) and its shoes (pearl-adorned Christian Dior stilettos for $102). Its faux handbag collection is peerless as well...
...1980s, a researcher at Yale discovered a compound which looked to be a promising new drug to fight the AIDS virus. Yale, in turn, licensed the compound to Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), a British pharmaceutical corporation. BMS proceeded to develop the drug, later named d4T, and to patent it in several countries, including South Africa...
...nation, is the undisputed ground-zero of the global AIDS crisis. In 2001, seeking to acquire cheaper generic versions of d4T in order to treat dying South Africans, the Nobel Prize winning organization Doctors Without Borders requested that Yale act in conjunction with BMS to drop its patent protection in the country. But Yale wouldn’t budge; at least not until a group of Yale students began to mobilize around the issue, mounting a stubborn media campaign to shame the university and BMS. Eventually the students prevailed, and together Yale and BMS ceased enforcement of the South African...