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Developing nations from Venezuela to Thailand say they are feeling like chumps and are moving to better protect their indigenous communities and wildlife from what they call "biocolonialism" or "biopiracy." The governments are drafting strict laws to ensure that the world's 300 million mostly poor tribal people share in the wealth that their knowledge helps create. One of the newer strategies is for governments or indigenous communities to obtain commercial patent rights on medicines and other products divined in animals and plants before the labs can muscle in. (None of the new laws are retroactive.) They also hope...
...sophomores Drew Robb and Michelle Konstadt. Garrity and Robb shared skipper duties with Bradford and Konstadt at crew. “I was pretty excited about how Jon Garrity rallied himself on Sunday afternoon,” Kovacs said. “I think Jon was having a poor morning, and Drew Robb had two bad races, but Jon went back out there and was sailing above the level he’d been sailing earlier. That was good to see.” Part of the division’s struggles came from the fact that the conditions weren?...
...final 20 minutes, shooting nearly 56 percent from the field after the intermission. “They could hit shots that no one in the country could stop,” Delaney-Smith said. “It wasn’t a case of us being poor on defense.” Delaney-Smith noted that James Madison also benefitted from a bit of home-court officiating. “It was on their own court, so the officiating was as bizarre as it could possibly be,” she said. Despite the turnover trouble and the problems...
Hunting may seem a cruel and heartless activity to animal-rights activists and many Americans. But hunters are trying to show they can be compassionate people too. A growing number of American hunters are donating part of their bounty each year to people who need it most, the poor and the homeless, through nationwide campaigns like Hunters for the Hungry, which delivers game meat to local food banks and shelters. In Georgia, where the group was founded 15 years ago, more than 1,000 hunters delivered 5,000 pounds of meat in 2006, making 25,000 meals. Nationwide, the group...
Discipline and deference to law and order, though, are rarely the strong suit of a militia. And the Sadrists, in particular, have little motivation to genuinely embrace the government. Sadr rose to prominence in 2003 and 2004 as an outsider claiming parties like SIIC did not represent poor and marginalized Shi'ites. After bloody fighting in 2004 he agreed to join the political process, and the Sadrists are power brokers in the national legislature. But they say they are still marginalized in regional governments...