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  DOJ versus Apple versus Amazon on eBooks
  Topic by Carrie Kirby

  Oh, for the good old days of technology antitrust suits, when it was obvious which company was the bad cowboy and which one wore the white ten-gallon hat. It was easy to boo and hiss Bill Gates when he was the guy in the Department of Justice's cross hairs. But now that the DOJ has...

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  Pharmaceutical R&D Costs
  Topic by Dr Dennis Lendrem

  Pharmaceutical Research and Development is an expensive business.  Pharmaceutical companies recover R&D costs through extended patent protection and taxation allowances.  Estimates of R&D costs and the extent to which pharmaceutical companies are compensated for that investment are currently...

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  Indie Amusement Parks: Are the Gates Closing?
  Topic by Derrick Bang

  My childhood was spent within a 10-minute drive of Marineland of the Pacific, a Southern California oceanarium — at the time, the largest in the world — whose August 1954 debut preceded the far splashier arrival of Disneyland not quite a year later, on July 17, 1955. I wasn’t old enough...