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At this time last year, the council was reeling from a strife-torn spring in which its vice president was nearly impeached, and then censured and de-censured over three weeks; it was forced to invalidate a referendum it ran because of numerous administrative improprieties; it drew heavy criticism for...
To hear its critics talk, W.R. Grace & Co., based in Boca Raton, Florida, is nothing less than a den of international pirates. Its crime: patenting a pesticide made from seeds of the Indian neem tree. "Genetic colonialism," thunders the self-proclaimed scientific watchdog Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on...
In short, the coalition's petition will probably go nowhere. But, says intellectual-property attorney Michael Gollin, it does "go to the higher question of what should we be doing on a societal level to share benefits. Is there a way to create some kind of compensation, not as blackmail...
The answer, Gollin and many others believe, is to create an international organization to provide guidance on these issues--probably under the auspices of the biodiversity treaty. If the petition does nothing but encourage some such solution, that may excuse a lot of hot air.
As for the sudden rise in bad television programs, the answer is simple: boycott the station and its advertisers. The reason the shows exist is because they know people watch, and because the advertisers believe that the time slots they have purchased will be seen by the individuals who are...