The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. SCIENCE

A new study predicts half of all children in North and South America will be overweight by 2010.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on why obesity is actually a sign we’re doing some things right.

2. TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft and Cisco team up to offer a system for managing phone calls via a user’s computer screen.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews on why innovation is making the FCC irrelevant.

3. HEALTH

Bird flu reaches Poland, experts fear a pandemic.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Dr. Henry Miller on the policies that are standing in the way of developing an effective flu vaccine.

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