47, an environmental scientist, Italian-American, married, 2 sons, originally a Catholic from Philly, now a Taoist ecophilosopher in the South due to job transfer. Enjoy jazz, hockey, good food and hikes in the woods.
Possible treatment for MD? Researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that losartan (Cozaar), a drug commonly used to lower blood pressure, reverses muscle wasting in genetically engineered mice with Marfan syndrome and also prevents muscle degeneration in mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Researchers are now closer to answering contemporary physics’ most pressing question: where is the missing particle that gives matter mass, known as Higgs-boson? Working at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the team of researchers made the world’s most precise measurement of the mass of the W-boson and found that it is somewhat heavier than previously measured, which in turn lowers the target mass for the Higgs-boson.
Last summer, members of BT wrote a diary series on the UN’s 10 stories the world needs to know more about. The story I wrote about was the rebuilding of Liberia. (See diary here: UN 10: Liberia.)
The BBC’s In pictures has posted a photo series by photographer Paolo Pellegrin on Liberia one year after the election of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf: In pictures: Liberia, one year on.
Seems Bill has a personal behavorial problem. “Some questions for Bill”?
“The personal activities of candidates and the public ambitions ought not to collide as much as they do in our world — but there are issues that Richardson needs to address that involve his own blurring of public responsibilities and ‘what should be’ private behavior.
Have you behaved inappropriately or not in public settings with female members of your government administration, jokingly or not? Have you gestured to female public servants and political appointees — who work as colleagues with you — and made lewd gestures, specifically pointing to them and then pointing at your crotch with a room full of media and other politicos there in the room?”
Ms Livni rose to become a lieutenant in Israel’s army before joining its foreign spy agency Mossad when she was 22. During her time at the agency it was involved in a failed assassination attempt on the Black September leader Abu Daoud. In 1981, her first year as a foreign spy, Mossad arranged the destruction of a nuclear reactor Saddam Hussein was building at Osirak.
Countries that hold large amounts of the dollar are showing a new willingness to dump the dollar in favor of the rising euro.
Last week, the United Arab Emirates announced that it would shift more of its currency reserves away from the dollar, joining countries like Russia, Switzerland and Venezuela.
Those moves come amid ambiguous recent signals from China about possibly pulling back from the dollar, and word last week from Iran, one of the largest oil producers, that it would prefer euro payments for oil, which typically is priced in dollars.
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Last year, the euro appreciated more than 11 percent against the dollar. The British pound rose nearly 14 percent against the dollar in 2006.
Possible treatment for MD? Researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that losartan (Cozaar), a drug commonly used to lower blood pressure, reverses muscle wasting in genetically engineered mice with Marfan syndrome and also prevents muscle degeneration in mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Researchers are now closer to answering contemporary physics’ most pressing question: where is the missing particle that gives matter mass, known as Higgs-boson? Working at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the team of researchers made the world’s most precise measurement of the mass of the W-boson and found that it is somewhat heavier than previously measured, which in turn lowers the target mass for the Higgs-boson.
Planning a trip south of the equator? Better hurry if you want to see this.
A major effort to reverse the dramatic decline in global tuna stocks gets under way in Japan.
Chemists have synthesized a new class of aluminum-hydrogen compounds that could lead to the development of more powerful solid rocket fuel and may also, in time, be useful for hydrogen-powered vehicles or other energy applications.
Researchers gathering the first quantitative temperature data over the last millennium from areas in extreme northeastern sections of the Canadian Arctic, such as Baffin Island, are finding that past climate changes there were not only larger than the rest of the world; they even warmed up more than the rest of the Arctic. And their data clearly show the imprint of human influence over the last century.
Last summer, members of BT wrote a diary series on the UN’s 10 stories the world needs to know more about. The story I wrote about was the rebuilding of Liberia. (See diary here: UN 10: Liberia.)
The BBC’s In pictures has posted a photo series by photographer Paolo Pellegrin on Liberia one year after the election of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf: In pictures: Liberia, one year on.
So Bill Richardson announced for a presidential run and immediately received a Smackdown for lack of a better descriptive:
Steve Clemons calls out Bill Richardson
WOW!
And Hillary? she’s facing Politburo problems
Losing his lady’s charm: Elizabeth Dole: Bush may lose N.C. ally
In a James Bond movie you’ll find this scripted: a spy runs for Prime Minister: Charming Former spy lines up to replace Israel’s leader
Olmert on the ropes?
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Israel’s policy putting …
“the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.”
Ms Livni rose to become a lieutenant in Israel’s army before joining its foreign spy agency Mossad when she was 22. During her time at the agency it was involved in a failed assassination attempt on the Black September leader Abu Daoud. In 1981, her first year as a foreign spy, Mossad arranged the destruction of a nuclear reactor Saddam Hussein was building at Osirak.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
Countries that hold large amounts of the dollar are showing a new willingness to dump the dollar in favor of the rising euro.
Last week, the United Arab Emirates announced that it would shift more of its currency reserves away from the dollar, joining countries like Russia, Switzerland and Venezuela.
Those moves come amid ambiguous recent signals from China about possibly pulling back from the dollar, and word last week from Iran, one of the largest oil producers, that it would prefer euro payments for oil, which typically is priced in dollars.
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Last year, the euro appreciated more than 11 percent against the dollar. The British pound rose nearly 14 percent against the dollar in 2006.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."