[But] that’s not where the companies will be selling the drugs.

They will be on the market only in the United States and Latin America, where rotavirus diarrhea is relatively scarce. The countries most in need will have to find a way to pay for a vaccine--Los Angeles Times.

Students not inocculated?—The Department of the Treasury renewed a license for Southern Illinois University researchers to travel to Cuba, but this does not apply to students.

Imperialism: Murder Inc. —According to a recent wire service report, up to 10,000 people are dying each month in Sudan. Washington hypocritically charges internal genocide. The World Health Organization attributes most of the fatalities to dysentery. Many of the victims are children.

Who’s us, knucklehead?— “Domestic bliss through mechanical marvels?: Experts predict robots will clean, care for us and make us happy”—Headline, USA Today.

Another ‘people’s government’—“Hundreds of orphans, mentally handicapped children and children in care, were used in secret experiments to test vaccines in the 1950s and 1960s. Local health authorities in this country and the Irish Republic allegedly used large numbers of children in trials of unproved medicines.”—Times, London.

Trying to convince her?—Serving as a juror, Roberta Wood walked out of a London trial. Brought back, she explained she had lost faith in the justice system. The judge fined her some $550 dollars.

Seems like union time—The upscale Niketown store in Chicago is the target of a discrimination suit by African American workers who are, in a big majority, limited to low-wage jobs in the stock room. Only a handful have better paying sales jobs.

Many work 40 hours and more but are classified as temps and denied medical coverage, paid vacations and other benefits. Black workers have repeatedly been accused of theft and, unlike the whites, subjected to searches when going home.

And no hub stop—The Space Transport Corp fired a rocket into space but it exploded. The chairperson said it was caused by a bubble in solid fuel. The company will continue to build a cheap, reusable rocket that can take tourists to the edge of outer space.  
 
 
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