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Only seven years later, in 1969, Thanksgiving apparently failed to occur at all at Harvard, students being too busy protesting by occupying the dean's office to notice the passing of the nation's most popular holiday...
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...software writers all want to write software for the most popular platform," Zittrain said. "People want the platform with the most software...
Patent extensions for drugs are rare. The last one, granted in 1996, was for the popular arthritis drug Daypro. So Schering-Plough has tried to work the system every way it can. First it wanted Congress to approve a straight extension of its patent. When that didn't fly, it tried a bill that would have shifted any patent-extension decision away from Congress to a new review board at the Patent and Trademark Office, and defined criteria for such extensions in ways that tended to favor the drug companies. But that bill, quietly introduced by New Jersey Senator Frank...
PARENTAL CONTROL Of the three temptations purveyed on the Internet--sex, alcohol and tobacco--don't count on screening software to shield your children from the last two. The Center for Media Education tested six of the most popular programs to see if they blocked sites that promote or sell alcohol or tobacco. There was only one, Surf Watch, that blocked more than half the sites. Until there's better software, the best advice is still to monitor kids' surfing habits...