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...posters also push Kim's economic policies, often exulting in the nation's ability to overcome adversity. In one of them, a railway worker carries a walkie-talkie in one hand and a signal flag in the other, beneath the words "Let Us Solve the Strained Railway Transportation Problem!" Another poster shows a young farmer from the county of Daehongdan, where the potato crop has purportedly doubled. It reads, "Following the Example of Daehongdan, More Potatoes for the People!" In a country where at least a million people are believed to have died of starvation under Kim's regime, there...
...didn't even exist when its patent was approved in 2001, and U.S. Trade Representative spokesman Richard Mills says he will raise the issue with the Chinese government. Pat Powers, Beijing-based director of China operations for the U.S.-China Business Council, says SIPO's decision "sends a negative signal to foreign companies looking to defend their property rights." Still, it's not clear whether China's patent office did anything wrong. Other countries have thrown out Viagra patents for various reasons, and intellectual-property lawyers say that until more details come to light it's impossible to tell whether...
...Engine turn-on," announced the propulsion engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., at 7:36 p.m. (P.T.), when the signal came down that the ship's fire had been lit. For the next hour and a half, the room was largely quiet. It was not until 9:12 that the same engineer spoke the words that meant the engine firing was over and the spacecraft had survived...
...patent there, potentially handing the market to locally made generics. The decision hinged on Viagra's use for erectile dysfunction rather than its chemical composition - authorities said Pfizer's application had not clearly described the drug. "Hairsplitting" is what the U.S. China Business Council called it and "a negative signal to foreign companies looking to defend their property rights." Pfizer says its patent stays in effect while it appeals, but Chinese firms are already clamoring to legally make the drug. Says Lu Xinyu, marketing manager of drug-maker Beautiful Pearl Group, "I can't imagine how vicious the competition will...
...from six to a dozen unknown aircraft are being plotted at almost any time; as one is identified by the scrambling fighters, another is reported elsewhere ... In case of a suspected attack, the hot lines would carry a call which is no drill: Air Defense Readiness. At the signal, all military aircraft are to be armed, fueled and manned, all defense forces called to duty, the White House and top officials notified--but not the public. Next signal, when the incoming aircraft prove "manifestly hostile in intent": Yellow Alert, to set off air-raid sirens, ground all civilian planes. Final...