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Sachs said there is also controversy surrounding what role the world's pharmaceutical companies should play in helping poorer countries...
Many believe that the companies have too much monopoly power and should offer lower costs to poorer patients as well as allot more funding and research toward drugs and vaccines for illnesses plaguing lesser-developed countries...
...goals will be to find a way to create incentives for the world's scientific community to invest in helping solve the health problems of poorer countries...
...benefits that keep us plugging into the Internet, it can be alienating. (Is it just me, or is e-mail a much poorer substitute for face-to-face contact than a phone call is? And if so, why am I letting e-mail crowd out my phone calls?) There is indeed the sense sometimes that, like neurons, we subordinate ourselves to the efficiency of the larger whole--that technology wins in the end, that culture trumps biology. As Emerson put it, "There are two laws discrete, Not reconciled,--Law for man, and law for thing; The last builds town...
...countries or steel from Korea, Brazil and Russia. It marches in Seattle under the hypocritical (or to be more generous, simply erroneous) claim that it represents the interests of the world's workers, when it is in fact mostly representing its own members at the direct cost of much poorer workers in the developing world, and at the cost of U.S. consumers that would like to buy those less expensive goods from abroad. When President Clinton, in his inimitable way, feels their pain, he is of course feeling the pain of a powerful lobby which may decide the vote...