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...widespread that American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer says it's having a difficult time selling the real thing. Last week Pfizer's job grew even tougher. China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) overturned the company's patent rights to Viagra, potentially opening the Chinese market to a flood of cheap, locally made generic rivals...
Tough talk is cheap in Baghdad. But if the new interim government in Iraq is going to prevail in what Prime Minister Iyad Allawi vows will be a "showdown" with the insurgency ravaging the country, it will need to put serious muscle behind the bluster. That's where General Mohammed Abdullah al-Shahwani, the recently named boss of the newly formed Iraqi Intelligence Service, comes in. As Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh says of him, "Terrorism is fought best with intelligence...
...frugality came at a price. Cheap ships can't carry as many instruments as luxury models, so it may take more than one mission to bring back the same science. What's more, the lower price means more frequent breakdowns, as the string of bad luck NASA had with its Mars probes in the 1990s painfully demonstrated. The upside of flying economy is that if one spacecraft is lost, it's a relatively small matter to cobble together another. That thrift-shop technology has succeeded in getting three rovers onto the surface of Mars and will be at work again...
DEAL WITH A MOTIVATED SELLER. Perhaps as many as 5% of sellers are so eager to unload their houses that even in a hot market they'll sell cheap...
Downloads are cheap--just $10 each--but so far language options are limited to French, Spanish and Japanese. And the software works only on new, third-generation iPods using Mac OS X version 10.2 or later (a Windows version is promised soon). Guess the translation for all that is C'est la vie. --By Jeffrey Ressner