The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. BIOTECHNOLOGY

Researchers in Iran announce the impending birth of that nation’s first generation of cloned sheep.

 CEI Expert Available for Comment: Senior Fellow Gregory Conko debates the safety of meat and milk from cloned farm animals on CNN.

2. BUSINESS

European Union antitrust regulators accuse Microsoft of not complying with a 2004 order requiring it to provide details about the Windows operating system to competitors.

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews on the flaws with the European approach to antitrust law.

3. HEALTH & SAFETY

The World Health Organization addresses evidence of viral resistance to anti-influenza drug Tamiflu.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Henry I. Miller, M.D. of what needs to be done to prepare for a possible avian flu pandemic.

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