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...example, Freedom House describes Saudi Arabia as one of the world??s “most repressive” societies. Ordinary Saudis have few civil liberties, no religious freedom, no rights to assembly or association, no independent judiciary, and suffer racial and ethnic discrimination, to name but a few everyday problems. The utter repression of Saudi women needs no comment. Freedom House classifies Saudi Arabia as “not free,” all of which suggests a pretty serious oversight in Bush’s policy...
...breakthrough was no small scientific feat, but taking vaccines like Edwards’ to the world??s poorest may require more than just biotech savvy...
Pharmaceutical companies’ reluctance to invest in drugs for diseases like TB leads some to question whether for-profit firms have a productive role to play in treating the world??s poorest. “There are lots of ways of skinning cats, but I don’t think that realistically you can ask corporations to undertake not-for-profit roles,” Whitesides says...
...restricting its grantees’ profits, and requiring that they distribute to developing countries, the Gates Foundation is lowering financial barriers that keep medicines like Edwards’ TB spray and Yale’s Zerit beyond the reach of the world??s impoverished...
Moving on, let’s just take a look at the “Societies of the World?? requirement. Whose bright idea was it to study backward civilizations where they don’t even have the wits about them to speak English? I don’t know about you, but my ancestors did not leave the Garden of Eden and travel a zillion miles on a boat just to get to America and have to learn about other people’s cultures. That is just what the terrorists want you to learn! If other...