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Well, yes and no. The truth is that Grace's U.S. patent has no effect in India, whose laws prohibit the patenting of agricultural products; Indian farmers are free to use neem seeds as they always have. Beyond that, Grace's patent may be upheld. The company found a way to treat traditional neem-seed extract to increase shelf life from weeks to years--just the sort of innovation patent laws cover. Even an environmentalist like Walt Reid of the World Resources Institute, based in Washington, admits, "I won't be surprised if the challenge doesn...
These precautions would include forbidding the Harvard Management Company (HMC) to sell that equity before a certain time. The committee would also prohibit the University from making direct investments in those firms, which are frequently cash-starved early in their history...
...problems with "flag" are nothing compared with the problems in defining what exactly is to be prohibited. Perhaps out of a desire not to unfairly single out arsonists--who, like polluters and toxic-waste dumpers, are no doubt represented by a powerful, well-funded lobby--the proposed Amendment says, "The Congress and the States shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States." But Representative Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, objected that desecration has religious overtones. Someone may think Congress was trying to sneak by the First amendment and establish a religion...
Naturally, the national online-service providers, such as Prodigy, America Online and CompuServe, are watching these developments closely. They are gated communities, with local ordinances that prohibit red-light districts. But once their gates are open to the Internet, how do they protect their customers? CompuServe posts only a written notice, warning people to be careful when they venture forth. "The Internet is a completely different place," says spokeswoman Michelle Moran. "You're on your own. We're not responsible for lost or stolen items." At Prodigy the registered head of the household, using a credit card for verification, must...
...lesbians welcome the research because it supports what most of them have long felt: that homosexuality is an innate characteristic, like skin color, rather than a perverse life-style choice, as conservative moralists contend. And if that is true, then gays deserve legal protection similar to the laws that prohibit racial discrimination. "On a political level, genetic research does seem to move the debate along a certain path," says Denny Lee of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay advocacy group in New York City. "When people understand that being gay or lesbian is an integral characteristic, they...