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According to Wriede-Morawski, Bassi’s strategy normally calls for easing her way into a race before overcoming her opponents in its final stages. But against the trials’ elite field, her inability to establish an early lead precluded a late comeback push...
...WHAT WILL THE BANKRUPTCY ENTAIL? The job of Portland bankruptcy judge Elizabeth Perris is to establish the diocese's assets, its legitimate creditors and how many cents per available dollar each should receive. She will oversee its finances in the meantime, so Vlazny can maintain day-to-day operation without squandering those assets. She is not empowered to unilaterally close down parishes or lay off staff...
...limit on future claims against old offenses--in other words, extract itself from the nightmare still facing other dioceses. But the hearings could also become high theater, the diocese's fiscal and administrative exposure could breed further investigation, and a loss on the parish-assets issue could establish a cataclysmic precedent for the church. In Rome, the Unconsulted are venting their displeasure. "Someone in Portland," sniped a high-ranking official, "got some bad legal advice." Someone in Portland is praying that is wrong. --With reporting by Jeff Israely/Vatican City and Sean Scully/Los Angeles
...initiative will establish the Center for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research and is the product of the largest environmental research grant ever awarded by the EPA in New England, according to an EPA press release...
...British Medical Journal published a landmark study in 1954 that helped establish the link between smoking and lung cancer. Last week the journal published a 50-year update of the massive research project on which that paper was based--the longest smoking study ever--which calculated that cigarettes took an average of 10 years off the lives of smokers who never quit. The study, which began in 1951 and ended in 2001, followed 35,000 male doctors and found that kicking the habit reduced mortality rates on a sliding scale. Quit at 60, and you gain three years of life...