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...stake in these decisions. SmithKline lost its patent protection for Tagamet last year; Merck's exclusive rights to Pepcid end in 2000; and Glaxo's claim to Zantac expires in 2002. By law, any company that switches to an over-the-counter preparation of its product enjoys a three-year monopoly before other firms are allowed to manufacture a generic version. All three companies are planning to use the time to establish name recognition and brand loyalty among consumers...
...buried in his right shoulder. His partially paralyzed right arm has atrophied from disuse, although he can maneuver it to grab and pull back on a rowing machine. Aggressive physical therapy after the war allowed him to rescue most of the use of his left arm. But during his three-year convalescence, he developed an infection that required his right kidney to be removed. Sonograms have shown that his left kidney has, as expected, got larger in order to compensate for its increased load. (Doctors note that thousands of people live quite normally on a single kidney.) A small stone...
...University has been negotiating intensively with HUCTW, the largest of Harvard's nine unions, since its three-year contract expired on June...
Four months into his three-year sentence for transmitting obscene images by computer, the man the Carnegie Mellon report calls a modern-day Marquis de Sade hardly looks like a political cause celebre. Robert Thomas spends his day like any other inmate at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri: cleaning the prison kitchen and laundry room and waiting to hear whether his lawyers will get him out on appeal. Thomas' case could well end up in the Supreme Court, where it would set legal precedent for all of cyberspace...
...three-year contract for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) expires today, Union members expressed pessimism this week that a new contract will be hammered out anytime soon...