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U.S. to World's Poor: Drop Dead. Guardian (London): US wrecks cheap drugs deal. Talks at the WTO's Geneva headquarters collapsed last night after the White House ruled out a deal which would have permitted a full range of life-saving drugs to be imported into Africa, Asia and Latin America at cut-price costs. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
Here's an example of why people in the third world hate the United States. When you read stories like this, is it really baffling why terrorists are targeting American assets and people?
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SJ Mercury: Consumers' rights given little respect. Dan Gillmor. Yet something akin to this practice is already in existence, and growing. In the world of electronic devices, digital entertainment and software, customers are routinely subjected to restrictions that forbid modification of products they've already purchased. [Tomalak's Realm]
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Bush administration proposes mega-Carnivore system? The official compared the system to Carnivore, the Internet wiretap system used by the F.B.I., saying: "Am I analogizing this to Carnivore? Absolutely. But in fact, it's 10 times worse. Carnivore was working on much smaller feeds and could not scale. This is looking at the whole Internet." [Ars Technica]
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A must-read article in today's NY Times about the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica. It's larger than North America and has doubled in size in the 20 years since it was discovered. The lifestyle of people at the southern end of South America has already changed. "We feel like we are rabbits in a laboratory experiment," said Ivan Mansilla Vera, 36, an engineer and father of two young children. "Nobody knows what is going to happen to us." [Scripting News]
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