Good news on the pharmaceutical end about generics.  Check out the link if
you have time.

Take care,
 Celia

U.N. Disease Fund Opens Way to Generics (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/16/health/policy/16AIDS.html
A $2 billion global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria will
encourage poor countries to buy cheap generic medicines instead of
expensive
brand-name ones, its director said yesterday.