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...order to secure its passage, however, Democratic proponents of the bill had to make two concessions: the repeal of the majority of D.C.’s gun-control regulations and, more significantly, an additional congressional seat for the state of Utah, a stipulation first offered in the failed D.C. House Voting Rights...
...spite of their important role in producing new drugs, universities have taken a back seat to pharmaceutical companies in determining the policy agenda for access to medicines. Patentable technologies created in universities are typically licensed to pharmaceutical companies to facilitate the development of useful, marketable end products. In addition to providing product development, these partnerships also frequently guarantee that the institution and the researcher will share in the profits through royalties. Yet, too often, the agreements used to create these partnerships contain no provisions preserving the rights of universities to grant access to the finished products. This means that...
...Zachery's 41st birthday. He was working in the hazardous-materials unit, and a call came in from a local hospital: chemical spill. Normally, Zachery would have been behind the wheel of the truck, but on that day, he was acting captain, so he rode in the passenger seat. Siren blaring, lights flashing, horn honking - none of it registered with the driver of a city trash truck, who turned into the path of the speeding haz-mat unit. The crash folded the front of Zachery's vehicle, and his head spiderwebbed the windshield...
...Best Actor Gene Hackman) rockets through Brooklyn traffic tailing a criminal who has hijacked the West End’s elevated train. Lacking the funds to block off the street or film the chase on a closed set, Friedkin had simply sat in the passenger’s seat with his camera pointed forward and taunted the driver until he tripled the speed limit. “We went 26 blocks at 90 miles an hour with no clearances, no permissions—went in the wrong lane, went right against cross traffic, and nearly hit it. It?...
Cambridge Public School Committee member Luc D. Schuster said last week that he will not seek reelection in November, hoping that the early announcement will encourage non-incumbent candidates to run for his seat. Schuster, who was first elected in the fall of 2005 at age 25, said that though serving his two terms on the committee has been “the most meaningful work” of his life, his interests have broadened beyond educational policy. “Local public service is something that everybody should have the opportunity to experience,” he said...