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PHIL JONES, British scientist at the center of the Climategate scandal, saying he contemplated suicide after the leaked e-mails prompted threats from global-warming skeptics...
...genres (a thriller in the vein of Cormac McCarthy, a children's tale, a 900-page fantasy novel) with no bites from publishers. "I began to think I might not be able to cut it as a novelist," he says. So he scaled back, and in 2005 a small British press released a collection of his short stories, the touching, terrifying 20th Century Ghosts. It was followed two years later by the best-selling Heart-Shaped Box, a novel about an aging rock star who buys, via the Internet, a suit that happens to be haunted by an evil, razor...
Nonetheless, the move enraged other European lawmakers, who said the Parliament was merely pontificating. "The European Parliament has thrown its toys out of the pram and put a crucial counter-terrorism data-sharing agreement with the U.S.A. into jeopardy," said Timothy Kirkhope, a lawmaker from the British Conservative Party. "It is not fair that the U.S.'s efforts to tackle terrorist financing have become embroiled in an argument between E.U. institutions." European and U.S. officials will almost certainly need to craft a different kind of pact now. While Washington could cut individual deals with the banking centers of Belgium...
...book had been written from his own recipe for paranoid suspense. It's the story of a writer of celebrity lives - a magician's best-seller, for instance, titled I Came, I Sawed, I Conquered - hired to add some marketable pizzazz to the memoirs of Adam Lang, a retired British Prime Minister of the Tony Blair stripe. He's called in on this rush job because the previous ghost, Mike McAra, has died suddenly. Joining the ex-P.M. in a remote enclave on Martha's Vineyard, he is drawn into a controversy involving Lang's possible approval of torture...
...development, published on Jan. 18 in the British journal Lab on a Chip, allows scientists to better monitor experiments with microfluidics, which involves manipulating miniscule amounts of liquids to scale down lab processes to a micro-sized package...