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...plain that this such protections are a doomed holding action. But cuisine - cuisine is different. Ask any French man or woman for their views on U.S. cuisine, and nine times out of ten you'll be told, "They have no cuisine." France, by contrast, prides itself on a strict, regionally based specialization in produce and cuisine that has evolved over hundreds of years. McDonald's, for Bove and his supporters, is a symbol of a standardized industrial approach to food cultivation and preparation, which they see as the antithesis of French culinary culture...
Business leaders--including representatives from Cambridge's burgeoning biotechnology industry--said the guidelines of the revised petition, despite being fewer in number than in the original plan, were too strict, while neighborhood activists offered impassioned pleas for the passing or refiling of the original plan...
...drug firms legitimately need the profits to finance research on new wonder drugs. They say it's not wise to offer cheap AIDS drugs without a proper medical infrastructure--that deadly, drug-resistant strains would emerge. But at what point does the human benefit to desperate, destitute countries outweigh strict adherence to patents and profits...
...that, with my moral compass fully demagnetized, I began to download. I started with a strict set of rules: I would download only things, say Springsteen bootlegs, that I could not buy anyway. From there it was a short step to saying I would take only things that I already had copies of, then to saying I could take things I wished I had copies...
...going to talk about changing the U.N. sanctions regime. The U.S. is recognizing that they may not be able to keep the same comprehensive sanctions that have been in place since the Gulf War. So the priority is to change the sanctions regime in such a way that strict arms controls remain in place - a strict ban on weapons sales to Iraq, and other controls that prevent Saddam acquiring components for weapons of mass destruction. But they?re going to discuss eliminating a lot of the collateral controls that are causing a lot of friction between...