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Labeling Grace's actions a rip-off, though, requires something of a stretch. The company didn't steal away with the seeds and market them; it built a plant in Tumkur, near Bangalore, to process them, providing jobs for 60 Indians and contributing to the local economy. Some critics charge that demand from Grace's plant is the cause of a recent jump in neem-seed prices that has driven some small farmers out of business, but that is difficult to prove. And while India will eventually have to change its patent laws as a member of the World Trade...
...most offensive segments poses a young man alone, his face in that numb, deadened look associated with films that can be bought only in an adult bookstore. A man off-camera says, "You got a real nice look. How old are you? Are you strong? You think you could rip that shirt off of you? That's a real nice body. You work out? I can tell...
...market and sold as "fresh" to an unsuspecting public. From the producer's perspective, the rationale for this fraud is easily understood. Freezing increases shelf life, and chickens labeled "fresh" command as much as $2 a pound more than birds marketed as frozen. At current consumption levels, this rip-off costs Americans nearly $1 billion annually...
...supposed to get the ax: Government aid to U.S. companies to build power plants overseas; $14 million to buy land for a U.S. Army museum near the Pentagon; millions more for Tennessee Valley Authority recreational facilities. When House Republicans passed their budget last month, they brashly proclaimed they would rip out wasteful programs, even whole departments, by the roots. There would be no mere trimming and rearranging as the Democrats had done in the past. But so far, it's not working out that way. The big problem: someone forgot to tell the Republicans who run the House Appropriations Committee...
...sexmaking, the rich kids in the Spanish film Stories of the Kronen hang recklessly from a bridge over a busy highway. The teenage girls in the Thai film Daughters sniff glue as a break from their stealing and prostitution. In La Haine, denizens of the bleak projects outside Paris rip off Chinese grocers and face off in grudge matches with the police. For the drug-dealing Arab pre-teens in Bye-Bye, set in Marseilles, the only moral imperative is to stay alive. In another French drama, Le Plus Bel Age ... (Those Were the Days), middle-class students indulge...