Word: tolls
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...Congress about seeing a Playboy calendar in high school and even held up two fingers behind the head of the Spanish Foreign Minister during a photo op. There's also the plastic surgery and hair replacement the 69-year-old billionaire has undergone to help mask the physical toll of his job--which he may well lose when Italians go to the polls this Sunday, with most voter surveys putting his center-left opponents ahead by 5 points. When he thanked supporters at a campaign stop in Naples last week, he couldn't avoid calling attention to the fact that...
...other side are those who argue that small-time patent holders with dodgy claims and no actual businesses are using the legal system to extract payments from firms with established operations and products--lurking like fairy-tale trolls under bridges, popping out to collect a toll. "The trolls are turning patents into lottery tickets instead of rewards for late nights in the lab," says Rob Merges, a Berkeley law professor backing eBay. Merges says semiconductors and software may be covered by hundreds of patents, each with distinct claims, yet it may take only one case of infringement for a judge...
...psychological damage to Liberia's population of 2 million cannot be fathomed. What does it do to people to walk along Monrovia's sandy beaches and have to step around skulls and rib cages that are only half submerged in the sand? Taking stock of the toll, a Monrovia cleric said simply, "I weep for this country." If only tears could start the healing...
...know that good public health relies on a long list of factors--the availability of doctors and nurses, effective medicines, clean water, proper sanitation--and that even today, millions of people die every year of what should be preventable diseases. With global warming, you can expect the death toll to be even higher...
...This statistical discrimination is the same instinct that leads women to clutch their purses at the glimpse of a dark young man down the block. And it?s understandable, to a degree. But I can only imagine the emotional-and yes, economic-toll it takes on this entire swath of young...