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...been saving up your Herrell’s dollars, now is the time to spend them. After a 27-year tenure on Dunster Street, Herrell’s Ice Cream will be closing its Harvard Square franchise as soon as November. The move was forced by rising rents, high product costs, and increased competition...
...Monday and she's starting as a linen attendant in December. "I enjoy the textiles and knowing the difference between a nice spun polyester and a full-cotton product or Egyptian cotton. I'm so excited. I don't know what to do. When does December get here...
...After obtaining patents, Harvard licenses a number of the technologies it develops in its labs, such as organic compounds, vaccines, and diagnostics, to biotech and pharmaceutical companies for development into finished products. At present, there is no institutionalized mechanism to guarantee that drugs created from university research can be produced generically. Allowing generic production breaks the temporary monopoly a pharmaceutical company holds on a product that is guaranteed by its patent. With more companies able to produce a product, free-market competition drives down its price, and as its cost decreases, more people gain access to the drug. At present...
...Saying yes to drugs means institutionalizing a policy that recognizes access to medicines and health-related technologies for all as the primary purpose of development of health-related technology—that implements a system of technology development that ensures patients have access to the final end product they need, such as formulated pills or vaccines. It is systematic in its approach, sufficiently transparent to verify its effectiveness, and based on explicit metrics that measure the success of technology transfer by its impact on access and continued innovation; that removes legal barriers to generic production of Harvard technologies in resource...
Well, were you paid for it? Was I paid? No. I welcomed the opportunity to get to know their product on an up-close and personal basis. Unfortunately, everything I had to offer was everything they didn't care about. I had the wrong car, I had the wrong watch, I had the wrong shirt, I had the wrong shoes. In the process of doing that research I figured out how ill equipped I was to interact with that very narrow sliver of American society...