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Furthermore, there is a fundamental principle at stake beyond who owns the lecture notes—the principle that knowledge, particularly knowledge with educational value, should be as open and accessible as possible. It is an appeal to this principle that drives our natural impulse to protect public libraries and public school systems...
...statement comes on the heels of a series of breakthroughs in the stalemate between public health advocates calling for AIDS drug cocktails to be made available in Africa at reduced prices and the multinational pharmaceutical companies manufacturing the drugs, who wish to protect their profits and intellectual property rights...
...Unfortunately, according to a new survey by the Food and Drug Administration, all that caution may be for naught. Despite strict labeling laws designed to protect people like my coworker from any unpleasant surprises in their food, the FDA found that as many as 25 percent of manufacturers don't accurately list ingredients in foods like cookies, candy bars and other snacks. The omitted foods include oft-cited allergens like raw nuts and eggs, and the lapse, FDA officials fear, could result in myriad, avoidable allergic reactions - even death...
...staff editorial “Protect the Refuge” (Editorial, March 5), The Crimson leaves out key facts that make the case for drilling very persuasive. The article says that the USGS predicts that there are only “3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable crude oil” in the reserve; however, that misrepresents the total amount available. The phrase “economically recoverable” only means the amount of oil “for which the costs of discovery, development, and production, including a return to capital, can be recovered at a given well...
When the shelling began one sunny afternoon last week in the tiny mountainside village of Sipkovica, Fekrige Muharemi figured that the best place to protect her family would be on the ground floor of her home, a recently built, two-story whitewashed house with thick concrete-block walls. She even invited two other families--15 children and 10 adults--to shelter with her. The illusion did not last long. The 36-year-old mother of two was pouring Turkish coffee in small china cups for her guests when the shell hit. It tore into the upstairs bedroom, blasting...