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...begin safety testing. Developer Roussel Uclaf, meanwhile, sick of getting hammered by both sides, donated U.S. patent rights for mifepristone to the Population Council, a nonprofit reproductive-rights group founded 50 years ago by John D. Rockefeller. The council had to steer the drug through U.S. trials, file the applications for approval, weather the political storms and lawsuits that followed every step of the process. No wonder it took nearly eight years...
...Then again, it's been the final phase of the peace process that has left both leaders teetering badly, with the momentum in Israeli politics swinging solidly behind the hawkish opposition, while Arafat's diminished authority in the face of challenges by Islamic militants and his own rank-and-file has never been more obvious. Neither man can easily afford to be seen to be making concessions...
Microsoft's most recent tactical maneuvering also gives strong reason to doubt its interest in an expeditious appeals process. The company's proposed timetable for the appeal includes a more than five-month window in which to file documents and a provision for allowing briefs to be more than four times the normal length. Microsoft claims that such provision are warranted by the complexity and monumental nature of the case at hand. Its argument, however, is ill-founded. While complexity and historical import demand a thorough and unbiased weighing of the facts and a fair adjudication the parties conflicting claims...
...University has 30 days to file a response to the government's petition before the court will take up the matter. If review is granted, the case would probably be heard in about a year...
...request for a particular file percolates through the Gnutella network. When it reaches a computer that has the file, Gnutella connects the two computers directly, and the file is downloaded...