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...redress the problem, California Democrat Waxman last year proposed legislation that would provide financial incentives to companies undertaking or phan-drug research. Last week such bills were overwhelmingly approved by the House and the Senate. Under the provisions of the House bill, drug companies were to receive a 90% tax credit for expenses incurred in orphan-drug development, but the Senate struck this credit and substituted an appropriation of $9 million. The House measure also called for a seven-year period of exclusive marketing rights for unpatentable orphan products. It provided that in the absence of any alternative treatment, orphan...
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...violations of human rights I detailed in my letter. Since writing it, I have learned that Long's attacker had been in a reeducation camp where he had been atrociously tortured. On 6 May, I had the occasion to meet members of a high-level Vietnamese delegation headed by Phan Anh, the head of the Legal Commission of the Naitonal Assembly. I brought up the case of my father's arrest for advocating the observance of human rights in Vietnam, and his subsequent death of starvation. One member of the delegation wished to let me know that he "admired...
...crime. The first day they moved to Brooklyn they witnessed a mugging in the subway. Says Thuy, 22: "We've been warned not to leave home unless it's necessary, not to go out after dark, and to always travel in twos and threes." Adds Thuc Phan, 20: "How can we tell robbers we are too poor...
...close, the process of generational amnesia and painful relearning seems wasteful; it leaves the countryside strewn with all kinds of debris - dead fathers surrounded by the or phan parricides who exuberantly did them in but do not even know yet how to use a spoon. However, as Albert Einstein once observed, "God is subtle, but he is not malicious...