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...National Academy of Sciences convene a panel of 14 doctors, scientists, pharmaceutical industry researchers and patient advocates to come up with ways to spur innovation. They recommended more collaboration among government, industry and academia. Colleges, for example, could offer more scholarships to train translational researchers. The government could offer more incentives for innovative drug research. Patents for breakthrough drugs could be extended from the current 20 years to 25-30 years, while patents for "me too" drugs could be shortened to 10 years. Otherwise the billions for research will end up producing bigger profits, but not necessarily better medications...
...have seen before, Harvard is looked upon by institutions around the world as an exemplar. The recent removal of Early Action illustrates how Harvard is unique in its ability to act as a solo mover. Similarly, any steps taken by Harvard in promoting positive research policies will likely spur ripple effects across the country. Just five years ago, the “Consensus Statement of Antiretroviral Treatment for AIDS in Poor Countries,” developed by Harvard faculty across the University, helped change conventional wisdom that AIDS therapy could not be successfully delivered to individuals in resource-poor settings...
...lack of experience in student government, it would not be fair to ask the student body to put its trust in us in governing the College, when we ourselves are not even sure how the UC really works.” There are currently no real hurdles to force spur-of-the moment candidates to think their decision through before running...
...Russians are falling silent; indeed, a new generation of dissidents has come into being. For many of them, such as Lidia Yusupova, the war against a separatist movement in Chechnya, which has rumbled on with appalling cruelty since 1994, has been a spur to activism. Yusupova helps victims of the violence in Chechnya and has assisted in documenting atrocities there, a job that has won her two human-rights awards and a nomination for this year's Nobel Prize. She has no illusions about the risks involved. "Dying sooner or later is not the issue," she says...
...people. As disturbing as the bigotry was the role of the people expressing it. Politicians and entertainers, after all, succeed by knowing our hearts and minds. We are, in a real way, implicated in their achievement and their disgrace. So you'd think this explosion of public ugliness might spur some kind of national soul searching. Did we somehow encourage their bigotry, by ignoring softer forms of it in our pop culture? Did they think on some level, conscious or not, that they spoke for us? Were they right...