2 posts and columns on Laura Meckler

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U.S. Targets Tech’s Role in Oppression

in News on April 23 at 12:05 pm PT

President Barack Obama has signed an executive order targeting people and companies facilitating human-rights abuses with technology, part of a broader push by the White House to combat mass atrocities at a time of heightened concern over civilian massacres in places like Syria.

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Jobs's Transplant Highlights Differing Wait Times

in News on June 19, 2009 at 9:01 pm PT

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs’s decision to travel to Tennessee for a liver highlights the significant disparities in transplant waiting times across the country–the source of a longstanding controversy over the fairest way to distribute scarce organs.