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Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2005 Patrick Clinton	Are We Aligned Yet? A Medicare Part D Roundtable The most salient feature of the Medicare prescription drug benefit is its uncertainties.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2005 Rubinstein & Galardi	Bustin' a CAP: The Competative Acquisition Program The new Competitive Acquisition Program for Medicare Part B drugs aims to align market forces with the distribution of drugs and biologics that doctors administer in their offices, but increasing bureaucracy is a major downside.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2005 Tamsen Valoir	Legal: State Compulsory Licenses The Supreme Court extended the power of eminent domain. Now states want to issue compulsory licenses under the same principle to control drug prices.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2005 Jill Wechsler	Washington Report: Out of Commission? Crawford Steps Down The clouded circumstances of the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration may complicate the process of securing a permanent leader. Meanwhile, battles continue over hot-button issues such as the morning-after pill and the regulation of follow-on biologics.
BusinessWeek November 21, 2005 Howard Gleckman	How Tax Reform Adds Up The President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform has proposed two ways to clean up the code, and the impact on companies could vary widely.
BusinessWeek November 21, 2005 Richard S. Dunham	The Patriot Act: Business Balks Businesses are joining critics who seek to curb the Patriot Act's wide-ranging investigative powers.
CIO November 15, 2005 Susannah Patton	Medical Records Gone with the Wind To help Hurricane Katrina victims get appropriate medical treatment, the federal government, with help from other public and private groups, has established a website where health-care workers can retrieve prescription histories and related information on evacuees.
InternetNews November 11, 2005 Roy Mark	Public Knowledge Pans AG's Copyright Proposal Digital rights group Public Knowledge picks apart legislation that puts copyright theft in criminal code.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 John Rhea	President Bush's Space Vision: Is This Trip Necessary? NASA has finally unveiled details about its proposed $104 billion plan to return astronauts to the moon by 2018, but critics detect a demonstrably uncertain sound of this trumpet.
BusinessWeek November 21, 2005 William C. Symonds	America The Uneducated A new study warns of a slide for the U.S. as the share of lower achievers grows. If the U.S. doesn't pay more attention, everything from its competitiveness to its standard of living could sink.
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