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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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An abominable crime |
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In the House of Representatives yesterday, people in
wheelchairs greeted the congressmen to remind them to give urgent
attention to House Bill 6035.
That bill would amend the
draconian International Property Act. The IPA protects patents,
trademarks, inventions, works of art and such things from being
plagiarized and pirated. Unfortunately, it also helps greedy
transnational companies in making it hard for Filipinos to
manufacture generic medicines even when their patents have expired.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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BIG DEAL
By Dan Mariano
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Citizens to audit
May 14 polls
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You would expect that engineer
Robert Verzola, as one of the pioneers of information technology in
the Philippines, would be gung-ho for automated elections.
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ABOVE ALL THINGS
By Ramon Jr. &
Eloisa S. Mabuta
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Falsification of
documents
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Letter received: Honesty is still
the best policy. This dictum flashed in my mind as my husband and I
were accused of falsifying some documents relative to the sale of a
small parcel of land in our province.
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CONTINUUM
By Edgardo B. Espiritu
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Our country’s
image to the rest of the world
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I HAD been asked to speak in a
forum in a noted university town in the United Kingdom, but I had to
beg off since the event coincides with an important meeting at the
office in Manila.
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REPUBLIC SERVICE
By Ricardo Saludo
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Taking the tough
road to progress
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There is much to learn from the
temporary ban issued last week by the US Commission on Graduates of
Foreign Nursing Schools on most of the 17,000 passers of the 2006
nursing licensure examination...
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FROM THE NEWSROOM
By Johnna Villaviray-Giolagon
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A new
Guinsaugon
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It’s been a year since a mas
sive flood of mud, rock and other debris entombed over 1,000 people
in Barangay Guinsaugon, Southern Leyte. The around 900 residents who
were elsewhere when the midmorning mudslide...
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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Tweedledum vs.
tweedledee
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Tweedledee and tweedledum. Voters
might as well write those two words on their ballots come May 14.
And it won’t make a difference. In the outcome of the elections...
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Peter, Paul and
Mary’s Paul now aims
‘hammer of justice’ at North Korea
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Paul Stookey, who has sung about
a “hammer of justice” in the US folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary
for four decades, is now taking aim at North Korea’s “Great
Leader” Kim Jong-Il.
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