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...Clean Elections law passed by Massachusetts voters as a ballot initiative in 1998 is a perfect example. Lawmakers despise the law, which prevents them from raising huge contributions in the months before an election if they wish to qualify for public financing. Finneran and Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham '72 tried to gut the law in last year's budget, only to be thwarted by a gubernatorial veto...
Though Finneran has assaulted any semblance of true democracy in the House in a wide variety of ways, from micromanaging committee actions to single-handedly negotiating the details of the budget with Birmingham last year, he does not alone bear the blame for this shameless power grab. The representatives who find it convenient to have him as a scapegoat also deserve to be censured for destroying any semblance of democracy in order to protect themselves...
...iridescent rear ends at award shows, re-creating the Kennedy assassination for kicks and generally freakin' out the straights, McGowan was reportedly unhappy about her fiance's vagabond tour schedule, which keeps him away from home for months on end. (Manson starts his Guns, God and Government tour in Birmingham, England, this week.) Now their nihilistic fans will just have to hope Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake can hang on--and get a whole lot weirder...
Identified by neurobiologist Harald Sontheimer, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, chlorotoxin targets glioma cells and blocks their fluid-balancing chloride channels, preventing them from shrinking and then migrating elsewhere in the brain. Sontheimer's group is about to submit a clinical-trial protocol to the FDA. If approved, as many as 30 glioma patients could begin receiving chlorotoxin tagged with radioactive iodine as early as July. If the strategy works, Sontheimer says, "chlorotoxin could become a platform for delivering all sorts of drugs...
EATING YOUR CAKE Stock investors leery of market volatility who still want to play might consider market-indexed CDs. Crown Bank of Orlando, Fla., and New South Federal Savings of Birmingham, Ala., offer FDIC-insured CDs tied to the NASDAQ 100 or the S&P 500. Based on the past two decades, both would have done worse than the market but better than non-indexed...