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...enemies, particularly in the developing world. The USDA and Delta and Pine Land have filed Terminator patent applications in dozens of countries. In many of those countries farmers can't afford to buy top-of-the-line seeds every year and must rely on saving a portion of each crop in order to plant their fields the following year. Monsanto insists that weak patent protection in many of these countries makes a technology like Terminator especially important. But that argument carries little weight in parts of the world where food bowls are going empty. "This technology brings no benefit...
Down the street from Quiksilver, Woolcott says he is not interested in growing if it means sacrificing any portion of the life-style, which includes taking off whenever he wants on a surfing safari or snowboarding trip. "Getting bigger is totally secondary," he says. "I don't want to put pressure on what we're doing. I don't even think about getting Quiksilver big." Woolcott's office is festooned with Sex Pistols posters and Volcom's mission statement: YOUTH AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT...
Lucrative TV network contracts give professional sports leagues a large portion of their income, but networks will not be willing to pay so much if the fans do not want to watch...
...Portion of fans in a survey who say they blame the players for the lockout...
...prompt people to take the financial responsibilities of retirement into their own hands. The Roth proposal may help some, but since the plan obviously benefits those who have money to begin with, it still leaves out in the cold those who can't afford to save. Dealing with that portion of the population remains the $64 question that everyone promises to answer -- later...