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...PATENT Bayer holds the patent on Cipro until 2003. Despite congressional pressure and news that Canadian health authorities have decided to break Bayer's patent, HHS decided against permitting other companies to make generic versions of Cipro. It maintained that Cipro (Bayer is tripling production) as well as other antibiotics, would be sufficient to meet any bump in demand...
...mammoth electronic database to track the comings and goings of all foreign visitors. (Such an information bank could cost $500 million, and is drawing cries of xenophobia.) Already passed in the antiterrorism package is a measure that will triple the number of immigration agents along the 4,000-mile Canadian border guarded in some places by nothing more than orange cones. Senator Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary's immigration subcommittee and a longtime champion of open borders, will introduce legislation next week to produce new passports replete with fingerprints that would initiate instant background checks. Less flashy...
However, one approach to maintaining American preparedness was indicated by yesterday’s agreement between Bayer and the Canadian government. Last week, citing “extraordinary and unusual times,” the Canadian government announced it would ignore the Bayer patent and authorized the production of 1 million generic tablets by a Canadian company. After high-intensity negotiations, Canada yesterday reversed its position as Bayer agreed to supply the tablets within 48 hours—before the generic tablets would have been ready—at a discounted price...
...whole spectacle of the Head of the Charles, it’s pretty remarkable. It can be distracting and overwhelming. But it’s also exciting. You race crews you don’t see for a long time. You race a national team boat or a canadian team boat and that’s a pretty cool thing...
...happened in September, you?ll see the terrorists did brilliantly in finding and exploiting the weak spots in our counterintelligence. Those failings, unfortunately, run the gamut. I?ve been told, for example, that throughout the 1990s people on terrorist watch lists were just wandering back and forth across the Canadian border like cockroaches...