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...have been the best way of getting at the truth. The truth was that back when he was the Jerry Springer of his day, he couldn't stomach being attacked for doing something he considered harmless. So Barris wrote a book in which his first assignment purportedly was to collect intel on Martin Luther King Jr. "People forget the point of the book," he says. "Here I was, getting crucified by critics for entertaining people and getting medals for killing them. That just didn't seem logical...
...according to Dennis, it activates a pathway in cancerous and normal lung cells that keeps cells alive even when they are damaged and should naturally die. As healthy cells acquire genetic defects from cigarette smoking, nicotine may force them to survive in their damaged, precancerous state until they collect so many mutations that they become fully cancerous. The study looked only at lung cells, but Dennis says nicotine may play a similar role in other tobacco-related cancers. --By Sora Song
...said he reminded his fellow Faculty Council members last week that there is a long precedent of Harvard taking on the federal government. During the Cold War, University officials effectively lobbied to eliminate their responsibility to collect loyalty oaths from their students...
...provide for tribal contributions to a special impact fund. The money will go to local communities overburdened by booming casinos and help defray the increased costs of local government services. California officials estimate that the tribes will pay about $100 million a year into the fund. By contrast, Connecticut collected $332 million last year from its two Indian casinos, Foxwoods and the Mohegan Sun. If California tribes were paying at the same rate--25% of slot revenue--the state would collect up to $1 billion...
After the Supreme Court gave the green light to gaming on Indian reservations, Congress set up a regulatory scheme that is contradictory, inconsistent and shielded from public scrutiny. How arbitrary is it? The National Indian Gaming Commission can levy fines but has no power to collect them. Each tribe has its own gaming commission, but that's like Enron's auditors auditing themselves. States monitor casinos in some situations but not in others. Federal prosecutors may go after one casino for a gaming violation while ignoring the same violation by a wealthy and powerful tribe...