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...Since the Election Commission that runs the presidential race places strict limits on campaigning—currently, the race lasts only eight days, and there are controlls on communication, such as an ban on e-mail campaigning—it is nearly impossible for a candidate to contact the thousands of student voters himself...
...discussion of the murky problem of law on the Internet through the lens of specific cases. The author stresses the importance of finding a middle ground between the libertarian approach, which calls for little to no government tampering with the Internet, and the authoritarian approach, which calls for strict control. He then highlights individual laws by discussing real life situations in which they were applied. Although some of Solove’s comparisons to events long in the past seem a little contrived, the second half of his book is almost as successful as the first.Solove...
Developing nations from Venezuela to Thailand say they are feeling like chumps and are moving to better protect their indigenous communities and wildlife from what they call "biocolonialism" or "biopiracy." The governments are drafting strict laws to ensure that the world's 300 million mostly poor tribal people share in the wealth that their knowledge helps create. One of the newer strategies is for governments or indigenous communities to obtain commercial patent rights on medicines and other products divined in animals and plants before the labs can muscle in. (None of the new laws are retroactive.) They also hope...
...This will not be a quick exercise," Britain's Acting Chief Veterinary Officer Fred Landeg said. "This is a particularly challenging site and our priority is to adhere to strict bio-security, and the health and safety of staff on site is paramount...
...While ETC would prefer that research were halted in time for policy makers to assess the synbio landscape, the truth is that if research in this field were slowed in the U.S., international laboratories would have an instant scientific advantage. This would be similar in the way that strict domestic stem cell research policies have allowed for oversea successes. But unlike with stem cell research, error in efficient oversight of synbio research in any one country could cause instant global repercussions—bacteria, of course, don’t observe borders. If anything, U.S. lawmakers should want domestic companies...