Imagine that you are an inventor and the government steals your highly lucrative idea, without any warning. The next day, you are informed that the government plans to mass-produce your invention and give it away for free.

This is what happens, with increasing regularity, to the manufacturers of life-saving medicines. And self-appointed public-health activists the world over are urging other governments to follow suit.

Internships

Ongoing Positions Available at River Cities Reader

Posted March 2, 2008

Type of Position: Part Time Non Paid - 13 Weeks - 15 to 20 hours per week

The Reader accepts applications for internships on an ongoing basis.

Sales & Marketing intern candidates, please contact Todd McGreevy - sales@rcreader.com

For a pdf with more information, click here.

Graphic Design intern candidates, please contact Shawn Eldridge - shawn@rcreader.com

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Editorial intern candidates, please contact Jeff Ignatius - jeff@rcreader.com

(Editor's note: St. Ambrose University art professor Kristin Quinn opened a sabbatical exhibit - Between Sea & Sky - last week in the school's Catich Gallery. River Cities' Reader art critics Bruce Carter and Steve Banks met to talk about her new work. Excerpts of their conversation follow; audio from their discussion can be downloaded by clicking here .)

Five teams of professional dancers from Ballet Quad Cities will spend five days delivering interactive educational outreach programs to 1,200 first-grade students in 17 Davenport schools. The outreach includes meeting professional dancers and learning about their career choice and how they spend their work day; the students then take a mini dance class and learn choreography from the ballet The Ugly Duckling. Fourteen first-grade students from Lincoln Academy were also chosen to perform in The Ugly Duckling, which was performed for the public February 16 and 17. A special school matinée for the Davenport schools will be performed at 12:30 p.m. on March 6 at the Capitol Theatre.