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...decision, the Indianapolis-based company announced yesterday. If its request is denied, the firm will appeal the ruling. And Eli Lilly will challenge the enforceability and validity of the patent in another District Court bench trial, the drug company said. “We are confident that we will prevail in the trial court and the verdict will be upheld by the appeals court, if Lilly files an appeal,” Ariad’s chairman and chief executive, Harvey J. Berger, said in a statement yesterday. —Staff writer Nicholas M. Ciarelli can be reached...
...Japan's ships penetrated seas that Seoul regards as its own. After two days of intense negotiation, the two sides avoided a high-seas skirmish, thanks to a last-minute deal in which Japan postponed its survey and Korea agreed not to submit its name proposals. Would sanity prevail? Hardly. Korean President Roh Moo Hyun reignited the dispute last week with a spectacularly inflammatory televised speech. "Japan's present claim to Dokdo is an act negating the complete liberation and independence of Korea," he declared. "This is a matter where no compromise or surrender is possible, whatever the costs...
...hand of Iran, North Korea, Pakistan or even the U.S., those evil creations are going to be used again. I do not fear that the human race will wipe itself out. Our species is very good at surviving. But I do find it sad that reason will prevail only if it is knocked into us, painfully. Katie O'Flynn Dublin Afghan Intolerance Re "A convert's plight" [april 3], on the case of Abdul Rahman, the Afghan who was prosecuted for converting to Christianity and eventually found asylum in Italy: As a British-born Muslim with royal Afghan ancestry...
...dictated, all nuclear weapons and the tools used to make them would have been destroyed right after Hiroshima. Sooner or later, whether by the hand of Iran, North Korea, Pakistan or even the U.S., those evil creations are going to be used again. It is sad that reason will prevail only if it is knocked into...
Jonathan L. Zittrain, a professor and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, outlined the four schools of thought that currently prevail regarding the issue: the “orthodox,” who favor banning technology; the “fundamentalists,” who believe that all instructors should ban technology; the “laissez-faire,” who favor allowing professors or students to make their own decisions; and the “innovators,” who experiment widely with technology and integrate it into their teaching...