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...copyright abuse [July 13]. Could it be that the corporations who are desperately clinging to their copyrights and intellectual properties, and spending billions in protecting them (mostly to the advantage of the lawyers and not the original creators), are in fact stifling innovation and economic growth in the process? Chris Patmore, LONDON...
Improved production methods are now helping win back drinkers. Traditionally, brewers made nonalcoholic beer by evaporating or filtering out alcohol from the real thing. Jeff Evans, author of the Good Bottled Beer Guide, says this process often resulted in beers with a distinct "industrial accent." Today, producers like Cobra - sales of its nonalcoholic brand Cobra Zero rose 21% in the U.K. in the year to March - lightly ferment their beer mix, creating only a tiny amount of alcohol. "Beers brewed this way tend to be sweeter and a little fuller-bodied," says Evans, "because nothing has been stripped...
...would have a different energy focus, but scientists from different disciplines could meet and interact, and hopefully speed scientific progress. For the Department of Energy, which generally focuses on nuclear weapons, the hubs would represent a chance to start anew with energy research. "This allows you to begin a process of major experimentation with new paradigms," says Muro...
...their force, none of those attacks got ETA what it wanted: negotiation with the Spanish government over independence for the Basque territories in the country's north. So why, then, when the organization is weaker than ever and has lost any immediate chance of restoring the peace process after it broke the 2006 cease-fire, does it continue to use violence as a political weapon...
...propaganda that is fundamental for maintaining group unity," says terrorism expert Alonso. But with the organization in decline, violence also has an obscuring effect. "Now it's become a way for a considerably weakened ETA to hide the fact that with firm action from the state, an unstoppable process of disintegration would begin," he adds. If the 2006 peace process is any indication, that firm action would have to couple a police crackdown with concessions - such as amnesty or a transfer of ETA prisoners to jails in the Basque Country to make it easier for their families to visit - which...