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...immediate environment and the greater world. As an African, my interest in the environment was further aroused when Wangari Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her contributions to the environment. Thank you, TIME, for celebrating these heroes who are working so hard to protect our planet. Timi Songi, Yenagoa, Nigeria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...mining is increasingly becoming an legitimate research method,” Petersen said. “Vendors and academicians are going to have to come to some understanding about this use. Academicians need these texts to do this kind of research, but at the same time vendors need to protect their intellectual property...

Author: By Jeremy S. Singer-vine, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Banned User Abused Factiva | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...says.Carlton Cuse ’81, member of the WGA Contract Negotiating Committee and executive producer and writer for “Lost,” says, “We just want the residual system to cover new media...It’s about protecting writers in this arena for the future and preserving the legacy of the residual system for future generations of writers.”Cuse emphasized the shockwaves the strike has in a phone interview last week. “This week has been about the fall out of that bomb, going through the various...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan and Katherine L. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: BOTH SIDES NOW | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...Many Dems are so loath to cede the high fiscal ground painstakingly won from the G.O.P. that they are willing to hit Wall Street with a new tax. But others have very parochial reasons to want to protect private equity. Senator John Kerry, for example, was opposed to a version of the bill that was floated this summer and only came out for this latest iteration with some fairly significant caveats. "We should do it in [a way that] avoids unintended consequence[s] and harm to other similarly structured partnerships in other fields," Kerry said. In Massachusetts the private equity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dems' Tax (and Spend) Dilemma | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

Developing nations from Venezuela to Thailand say they are feeling like chumps and are moving to better protect their indigenous communities and wildlife from what they call "biocolonialism" or "biopiracy." The governments are drafting strict laws to ensure that the world's 300 million mostly poor tribal people share in the wealth that their knowledge helps create. One of the newer strategies is for governments or indigenous communities to obtain commercial patent rights on medicines and other products divined in animals and plants before the labs can muscle in. (None of the new laws are retroactive.) They also hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jungle Medicine | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

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