Nat Hentoff, columnist for The Village Voice, is on a leaked list of Pulitzer Prize finalists making the rounds of American newsrooms, E&P's Joe Strupp reports. No one's vouching for the list's authenticity publicly, but it's making for some tense journalists between now and April 8, when the winners are announced.
San Antonio Current's News Editor Lisa Sorg recently traveled to Chiapas and found that biopirates are pillaging the region in search of the perfect prescription. "The innocuously named 'life sciences' industry is threatening life itself. Through biopiracy -- stealing plants to patent and later manufacture profitable drugs -- corporations such as Merck are undermining biodiversity," Sorg writes. This is the first installment in an occasional series about issues facing Southern Mexico and its indigenous people.
