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...foundation sees its role as filling the breach where the private sector is not addressing a crisis. The industrialized world's ailments, from indigestion to breast cancer, are already the focus of drug-company research. Cure a First World disease, and reap millions in profits. But cure a Third World disease such as malaria--the No. 1 killer in tropical climes--and there is hardly a penny to be earned. Those patients don't have health insurance. That is why the Gates Foundation has made finding a malaria vaccine a priority, along with eradicating scourges such as hookworm, hepatitis...
...site last March, "The Plant" will appear on King's own site, cutting out the middleman altogether. Publishing houses rely on blockbusters ? la King to finance the development of up-and-coming talent, and the prospect of cultivating such writers only to see them fly the coop and reap the big bucks independently is more terrifying than volumes of killer cars and telekinetic teens...
...authorities and levy VAT on all European online sales. Because Luxembourg has the lowest VAT rate in the E.U.--15%, in contrast to as much as 25% in Sweden and Denmark--the Grand Duchy would be the obvious place for corporations to register their sales--and it would hence reap the tax revenues...
Seldom do women get as lucky as Erin Brockovich, the movie law clerk played by Julia Roberts who used low-cut tops to distract important men into giving her confidential records. It's rare that women can reap the benefits of men's objectification of them without suffering some of the drawbacks too. Ms. Brockovich took a lot of risks, and for her, it paid off. But for most women, the eternal paradox of feminism kicks in: In order to be safe from the aggression and oppression of men, we need to lose our femininity and become like them, thus...
...zone, fighting the Israelis on home ground is a suicide mission; provoking Israeli retribution after the withdrawal carries the danger of turning the Lebanese population against Hezbollah, and Syria is unlikely to tolerate actions that threaten to draw it into a war. That may leave Hezbollah more inclined to reap their political rewards of their victory in Beirut than to keep slinging rockets into northern Israel...