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Perhaps the Samoa is a fat joke of a bygone era. (If this is the reality, kudos to Girl Scouts past, for such a joke is quite bright.) In that only mildly inappropriate way that pop culture tends to reference Howard Taft’s or Larry Summers’ size whenever those names are mentioned, maybe we can all agree joking about the Samoans is hurtful. But a so-called patriotic organization’s retreat in the face of the Samoan lobby is farcical. (Oh, it exists: just ask the portly pork-barreler Eni Faleomavaega, American Samoa?...
...CFCS, thalidomide. A mistake with nanotechnology could be very much more serious than anything we've seen before." Shand and Goldsmith have a point. As Time reported two weeks ago, ETC Group's paper included a review of available health research on nanoparticles. After studying the findings, Vyvyan Howard, pathology professor at Liverpool University, England, concluded that ultrafine particles - which can readily pass through skin and other tissues - could prove toxic should they reach vulnerable parts of the body. In part, fears of nanotech are fueled by the realization that the science is reaching a tipping point - from theoretical possibility...
...graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, Janeway was a professor of immunobiology at Yale University School of Medicine, as well as an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
...Gephardt's Democratic rivals, only former Vermont Governor Howard Dean criticized his proposal - on the record, at least. Dean, a physician, plans to make health care a centerpiece of his own campaign, called the Gephardt plan expensive and impractical; his own idea centers on expanding medicaid, and he contends he could achieve universal health coverage at half the cost of the Gephardt proposal. He promises to spell out the details, including its costs, when he gives the commencement address on June 4 at his alma mater, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine...
...hope the guys who were responsible for this get in trouble for it,” Howard said. “I’m not trying to be vindictive, but I don’t want this to happen to anyone else...