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...Coop’s managers might want to come up with a better reason than “intellectual property” or risk marring the intellectual face of Harvard. And Harvard might want to re-think its relationship with an institution that seems to put its own profit margin ahead of its students’ access to information...
...Beating the diplomatic buzzer will require innovation, and there were glimpses of the necessary creativity on Monday. Representatives from the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit connected to hundreds of institutional investors controlling $41 trillion in assets, reported that major corporations have begun to increasingly act on climate change - outpacing many governments. Indonesia, the third-biggest carbon emitter after the U.S. and China, hosted a side meeting of rainforest nations, where they called for forest protections to be a larger part of Kyoto's successor agreement when negotiations start in Bali. (Deforestation is responsible roughly 20% of global carbon emissions...
...that may work better? Medicine 2.0 often involves incremental improvement of things we're already pretty good at - making things safer or faster, more reliable and, yes, more attractive to patients. That last one, called "patient acceptance" by the industry, is a huge factor in our for-profit, marketing-driven world. But should patients, even really bright patients, who read every word on the Internet about their afflictions, be driving such choices...
...retail prices may often call into question at least the business sense, if not the integrity, of the bookstore’s proprietors. If nearly everyone acknowledges the price-gouging, why would any student shop there—and, therefore, how could the Coop make any profit...
Taylor said the increase was warranted, adding that while the pub was not established to make a profit, it could not sustain the revenue lost on each drink...