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...agreement reflects the increasing politicization of the battle over AIDS drugs. Health ministers from countries of the Non-Aligned Movement, including India, Indonesia and Iran, on Tuesday also backed South Africa's legal battle against 39 pharmaceutical companies over the right to sidestep patents by importing generic drugs to fight the AIDS crisis. Challenging AIDS drug patents is fast emerging as the defining issue of a new Third World solidarity, although this time it's directed at improving their leverage in the world capitalist system rather than overthrowing...
...years of ignoring stubbornly low success rates, coordinators of the 18-year-old Drug Abuse Resistance Education program are finally coming around to the news that their plan to keep kids off drugs just isn?t working. That means a whole new DARE program - one which critics hope will sidestep existing pitfalls...
Thus emerged Sidestep, Barth's two-month-old company, which joins second-generation dotcom travel sites like QIXO and Farechase in a challenge to such powerhouses as Travelocity, Expedia and Priceline. Sidestep's edge is that, in addition to finding low fares for consumers, it offers airlines the prospect of removing an expensive link or two from the travel reservation chain--namely, the so-called global distribution systems, like Sabre, that complete about 75% of all travel bookings...
Barth's software, which must be downloaded to a PC's Internet Explorer browser, searches airline, car and hotel websites to find exclusive low fares. (Mac and Netscape versions are in the works.) An Internet plug-in allows bargain hunters to view Sidestep's search results and competitors' side by side...
This being 2001, no net startup is guaranteed. Already, one promising travel site, Savvio, has closed. But Sidestep has money and momentum, and it is adding to the 28 airlines now signed up. In any event, Barth figures he can point his new search engine at other industries. Perhaps all he needs now is to bump into another M.I.T. friend to tell him which...