<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv1635291496"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" id="yiv1635291496bodyDrftID" class="yiv1635291496"><tbody><tr><td id="yiv1635291496drftMsgContent" style="font:inherit;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;">Recommended reading: Bob Naiman's speech Oct 11th in Brazil on Big Pharma and how to deal (legally) w/ outrageous costs<br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/brazil-should-lead-on-acc_b_758551.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/brazil-should-lead-on-acc_b_758551.html</a><br><br>Recommended listening: John le Carre (real name, David Cornwell) Oct 11th on DN! talking about political, social issues vs corporate interests -- a wonderful interview w/ a wonderful writer and person. <a
href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/11/exclusive_british_novelist_john_le_carr">http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/11/exclusive_british_novelist_john_le_carr</a><br>I've read but one of his books: THE CONSTANT GARDENER, about how Big Pharma tests meds on Kenyan subjects w/o their informed consent (resulting in the death of at least one character)... A goo<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">d enuff read, but the thing that impressed (and upset) me most was the disclaimer by le Carre that any resemblance to actual persons or companies was purely coincidental,</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">but that,</span></span> in doing the research for the book, he'd found that in reality things were far worse than indicated in his book.
</i></b> <br><div><div> --Jenifer</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></table><br>