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Drug companies have long skirted criticism of their fat profits by pointing to the huge financial risks they take to develop life-saving medicines. But lately that argument hasn't worked so well. The AIDS pandemic ravaging sub-Saharan Africa, where 25 million people are dying from the disease, has given rise to an alliance of activists, health professionals and politicians who accuse multinational pharmaceutical firms of pricing their AIDS-fighting drugs out of the reach of poor countries while greedily blocking the production of generic copies. That has stunned the industry into a price war in reverse...
...AIDS drugs from major pharmaceuticals at deep discounts. Jeffrey Sachs, the economist who headed the study, says the initial cost for such a program would top $1 billion a year and would climb to $3 billion annually within five years; by comparison, Sachs says total annual U.S. aid to sub-Saharan African during the 1990s averaged just $150 million. But, Sachs points out, America's gross national product is now $10 trillion. So "each billion means one cent out of every $100 that America earns each year. We're advocating two cents to save 5 million lives." Given the stakes...
...injustice in the world, so stuffed that the facts run into one another and thus seem, in a weird way, to be immaterial. The argument for lowering the prices of anti-AIDS drugs does not depend on whether 40 percent of the people under the age of 20 in sub-Saharan Africa have HIV or 20 percent of the people under the age of 40 do. Either way, there are many people for whom the drugs are far too expensive because pharmaceutical companies are unwilling to lower their profit margins. The sad fact is that though Galeano is continually pointing...
...They'll continue, but there will be more rules. For example, I don't think civilians will be allowed at the controls of the sub. Even if having people around some of the controls played no role in this tragedy, the idea of it spooked a lot of people. There will probably also be limits on how many people can be on board at one time, and once they're on board, civilians will be told to just stand there and be part of the furniture...
Thus we have a strange situation in the lecture halls of many science classes: an overly qualified student body and an under-qualified pool of teachers. What results is largely a product of the drive of many of these science students; they pick up the slack. When given a sub-par teacher, as they often are, they make up for the inability of teachers to impart knowledge by reading supplementary books, studying with other students, getting tutored, going to a section-leader’s office hours—whatever it takes. The drive toward knowledge and the almost infinite...