With complicated recycling that links the Heinz foundations to John Kerry'spresidential campaign, no wonder the H. J. Heinz Co. frets.

A new generation of environmental assessment and forecasting tools has begun to emerge, replacing the sensational Malthusian gloom-and-doom reports of the 1970s that were mostly proven wrong. Panelists at this event will examine several of these efforts, including the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the Pilot Environmental Performance Index, the State of...

The United Kingdom's publicly financed National Health Service has granted near-veto power over drug reimbursement decisions to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, an independent organization known as NICE. As a result, British health authorities are expected to adopt or deny new medical technology based on NICE's assessment...

Studies of multinational companies suggest that outsourcing not only raises the value of brands but boosts the wealth of shareholders and promotes high-wage administrative jobs at home.

Lawmakers should outdo Senator John Kerry's paltry corporate tax rate reduction and reduce our corporate tax at least 18 percent to return it to the world average.

Congress is in the process of rewriting the United States' patent laws. Scientific and technological changes in virtually all markets have dramatically altered the patent system itself. Reacting to fears that patents and patent litigation could retard rather than support technological progress, legislators are poised to take action with the...

Constraints on trade threaten to poison our relations with key allies and plunge the world into another depression.