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The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.
Jeremy Rifkin
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Jeremy Rifkin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
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