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...said. “We’d find that we couldn’t do anything because the licensee was no longer there.”The DSP includes a provision mandating three-year contracts between companies and the foreign factories that produce university goods to prevent such evasion.Before any such plans can be implemented, however, more support for DSP is needed. “We need more [schools] than we have now,” said Duke University’s director of trademark licensing and store operations, Jim Wilkerson, who also serves as a DSP working group...
Villagewide Wi-Fi Life in four African villages was transformed after San Franciscans, Bob Marsh, Mark Summer and Kristin Peterson, installed a wi-fi system. "The farmers learned on the Internet how to prevent diseases, control pests and increase plantain production," says Summer to reach the village of Nyarukamba in western Uganda, visitors have to clamber up a thin, almost vertical dirt track. It's not the kind of place you would expect to find subsistence farmers surfing the Web with wi-fi computers or making voip (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls. But that's exactly what the village...
...troops, and think they should come home.” He said the state needs the guard here to protect local gas reserves and to help in the event of a natural disaster. On abortion, Firenze opposes it in all cases, except for rape and incest. She stressed prevention of unwanted pregnancies through sex education and the morning-after pill. Brownsberger agreed with Firenze on the need to prevent unwanted pregnancies, but asserted that women should have a right to choose. Firenze, a political neophyte, stumbled at times and seemed glued to her legal pad—in contrast...
...were recently-reunited-after-forty-years Brazilian legends Os Mutantes.They got top billing on the second day of the two-day-fest, which was exactly where they belonged. More than a few spectators probably had no idea who they were listening to. Of course, that didn’t prevent hipsters with no knowledge of the band from talking about how “influential” they were.But Os Mutantes transcended any of that crap. They’re all middle-aged Brazilians who made a revolution in sound forty years ago when they combined Anglo-American psych-rock...
...ties to Iran and allow Lebanon to rebuild itself without remaining a slave to the regional goals of both Iran and its next door neighbor, Syria. Arms will continue to flow through Syria to Hezbollah if UN troops are not given the explicit mission of monitoring the borders to prevent continued weapons shipment.Psychologically, Hezbollah cannot be allowed to emerge from this conflict with the perception of victory. As demonstrated by Saturday’s rally, Nasrallah is claiming this summer’s war as a victory for Islamic extremism. If Hezbollah is permitted to emerge intact and reassert...