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...change in American attitudes toward pot came at the end of the 19th century, when between 2% and 5% of the U.S. population was unknowingly addicted to morphine, a popular secret ingredient in patent medicines with colorful names like "The People's Healing Liniment for Man or Beast" and "Dr. Fenner's Golden Relief." To prevent more of the country from being washed over with a morphine-induced golden relief, the government introduced the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906, creating the Food and Drug Administration. While it didn't apply to marijuana and merely brought the distribution...
Fashion Faux Pas: Hideous 1''-thick patent leather straps on her otherwise gorgeous dress...
...After obtaining patents, Harvard licenses a number of the technologies it develops in its labs, such as organic compounds, vaccines, and diagnostics, to biotech and pharmaceutical companies for development into finished products. At present, there is no institutionalized mechanism to guarantee that drugs created from university research can be produced generically. Allowing generic production breaks the temporary monopoly a pharmaceutical company holds on a product that is guaranteed by its patent. With more companies able to produce a product, free-market competition drives down its price, and as its cost decreases, more people gain access to the drug. At present...
TANGLED UP AND BLUE Accessories get polished or demolished this season, in slick patent or soft, crushable leather. This page: VERSACE double-platform pumps, $800 (Versace boutiques, 888-721-7219) Opposite page: TOD'S D Bag, $1,495 (Tod's boutiques, 800-457-TODS); SALVATORE FERRAGAMO clutch, $1,290 (Salvatore Ferragamo, New York City...
...Dior Initiales patent calfskin rain boot ($440; for locations, 800-929-DIOR...