Intellectual property Archives

Intellectual Property

by Eileen Myles,

From For Now, which will be published this month by Yale University Press as part of the Why I Write series. A version of the essay was delivered at Yale…

The Quinoa Quarrel

by Lisa M. Hamilton,

Who owns the world’s greatest superfood?

Native Lands

by Lisa M. Hamilton,

Photographs from the birthplace of quinoa

Weekly Review

by Paul Ford,

Visiting Scotland for the G8 summit, President George W. Bush fell off his bicycle after running into a policeman. Bush was hurt, but not badly. The policeman hurt his ankle.…

Eighteen people died when a U.S. helicopter crashed in Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed they shot down the helicopter; the United States blamed bad weather.BBC NewsChicago TribuneIraq’s parliament elected Jalal…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

United States military personnel who worked at Camp Delta, the largest prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, revealed that many prisoners there were tortured by being forced to endure strobe…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

President George W. Bush traveled to France to attend a ceremony commemorating the D-Day invasion and attempted to play down his dispute with President Jacques Chirac over the invasion of…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

Congress approved a major Medicare bill that permits the elderly to buy prescription drug coverage; few citizens were able to understand the plan, though the health-care industry appeared to be…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

Lawyers at the Environmental Protection Agency announced that they were dropping lawsuits against 50 power plants for violating the Clean Air Act, because newly weakened enforcement rules have undermined the…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

Israel raided the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and left 1,240 Palestinians homeless after demolishing up to 120 houses; Israeli officials said they had destroyed three tunnels used…

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