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Carol Moseley Braun embarrassed the Senate and persuaded over 30 senators to reverse their earlier vote to renew a patent on the Confederate flag. An angry and increasingly immature Jesse Helms threatened to sing Dixie until Sen. Moseley Braun cried, and then challenged her credentials as a genuine descendant of slaves. No one investigated Helms' own lineage to see if he is a genuine descendant of slaveowners...
...federal jury in Los Angeles found that Honeywell infringed on a Litton Industries patent covering airplane navigation systems. The jury awarded Litton $1.2 billion, which is pending approval by a judge this week...
...Science policy means our position vis-a-vis the funding agencies in Washington, our position vis-a-vis corporate sponsors of research, our technology transfer efforts--taking existing technology that Harvard owns, because we have a patent on it, and trying to make that available to the public but also get some financial returns on that," he said. "Those are the three main areas, and that's going to be a significant focus of my attention...
Most of the presentations featured specialized discussions about techniques ranging from DNA sequencing to patent searching to group behavior in robotics...
...late night in September. David Letterman is on CBS, with the same bits he perfected (but maybe didn't patent) on his NBC show: running animals through stupid tricks and Calvert De Forest -- Larry "Bud" Melman to you -- through the humiliation gauntlet. Chevy Chase is on Fox, reprising the Weekend Update routine from his early stint on NBC's Saturday Night Live. So what does that leave for beleaguered NBC and its corporate parent, General Electric? To stick with the lunch-pail charisma of Jay Leno at 11:30. To hope that Conan O'Brien (Dave's 12:30 replacement...