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...defense of its patent rights has emboldened foes even more. Activists plan to turn up the heat this week in Pretoria, when South Africa's high court resumes hearings on a lawsuit filed by 39 pharmaceutical companies against a 1997 law that gives the Health Minister discretion to import cheap copies of patented drugs or authorize local labs to produce them without the consent of patent holders. The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association says the law is unconstitutional. But the industry faces clamorous opposition. Thousands of protesters have taken to South Africa's streets, and a petition signed by 160 organizations...
...sans Frontières for $600 a year per patient - $200 cheaper than the least expensive brand-name cocktail. "We are offering the drugs at a humanitarian price," says Cipla chairman Yusuf K. Hamied. GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers have threatened to sue Cipla; they fear that a flood of cheap imitations in Africa could create a global black market for AIDS drugs that could undercut prices in the developed world...
...poorest African nations, where annual per capita health care budgets are less than $10, even cheap generics aren't cheap enough. This month Mali closed a deal to buy drugs from four Western firms at a 90% discount; but the government said it can treat just 600 of the country's 130,000 AIDS patients. What more can be done...
...Most important, the U.S. military's growing fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles?UAVs to the military, drones to everybody else?is increasing in sophistication and capability. Rumsfeld, conducting an exhaustive review of how the U.S. wages war, is convinced the time has come to rely more on cheap drones. Last year Congress?concerned over the American public's skittishness about U.S. casualties?told the Pentagon it wants one-third of U.S. bombing missions flown by unmanned warplanes...
...Square is actually a hub of Boston’s cool factor, rivaling only downtown Newbury Street in terms of shopping, record stores and cheap eats like Au Bon Pain and The Wrap. Two convenience stores, Store 24 and 7-11, along with pizza joints Tommy’s and Pinocchio’s keep Harvard students caffeinated and fed through at least most of the night...