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...higher, to 65. And though the White House originally reported that only half a dozen of them were derived in U.S. labs, that number too was revised upward--to 30. Whatever the actual figure, no one denies that many of the cell lines were developed by private companies that protect creations of this kind with a seawall of patents. "It is very possible that they will either not be available or available at exorbitant prices with all sorts of legal clauses attached," says Yale cell biologist Dr. Diane Krause. Says Dalton Dietrich, scientific director of the Miami Project to Cure...
...deal with HIV-positive clients who say they're going to have sex with people and not tell them about their infection, or they may have corporate clients with plans to dump dangerous toxins. It is tempting to think the new rule is just an attempt by lawyers to protect themselves legally, but in fact they may be better off under the old rule: if you are prohibited from blowing the whistle, no one can blame you if you don't. What the new rules offer lawyers is a moral opportunity to sound the alarm about clients bent on doing...
...arrest has sparked a firestorm of controversy over the as-yet-untested Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)--and over how far law enforcement should go to protect intellectual property like e-books. The case has provoked the first big showdown between two camps: the programmers who want to bypass security restrictions and the publishers who want to protect the words they sell...
...under age 13 who are riding in the passenger seat. But the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says about half of parents with pickup trucks, the vehicles that have air-bag cutoff switches, still don't use the switches as intended--to shut off the air bags and thus protect front-seat kids. Citing the "widespread misuse" of the switches, NHTSA recommended automakers develop air bags that can turn off automatically when a child is riding up front...
...Even for the non-suicidal insurgent, the allure of arms often trumps the bleak career alternatives of civilian life. From Sierra Leone and Angola to Mozambique and Somalia, many of Africa's Cold War-era guerrilla armies simply mutated into bandit gangs whose only purpose was to protect and extend their business interests...