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...find a link between drinking fluoridated water and developing osteosarcoma. He said Bassin’s study is a subset of his study and that he had not been able to replicate her results. The Environmental Working Group, a Washington D.C. based advocacy group, recently filed an ethics complaint against Douglass because he allegedly cited Bassin’s study in his report, despite the opposite conclusions reached by the two studies. Douglass said he just listed Bassin’s study as a related publication and not a reference. Douglass has received widespread criticism for defending...
...Capitol with equal parts guile and muscle, DeLay did it his way as he prepared to leave public life. He shunned the weepy contrition deployed by disgraced predecessors over the years and instead went out pummeling. He threatened to make one of his last acts an ethics complaint against Representative Cynthia McKinney, who later apologized for striking a Capitol Police officer. He said conservatives needed a new leader. He accused Democrats of "criminalizing politics." He said lobbying reform would be a sop to "the left." Although he has been indicted in Texas on money laundering and conspiracy charges...
...statistics on the topic are blunt: according to the National Center for Education Statistics, kids from the lowest income quarter are more than six times as likely to drop out of high school as kids from the highest. And in Shelbyville, nearly every dropout I met voiced a similar complaint: teachers and principals treat the "rich kids" better. "The rich kids always knew how to be good kids," says Sarah in a more nuanced version of the same refrain. "So I guess it's natural the schools wanted to work with them more than with the rest...
...monitor internet usage and usually [finds] out about violations when representatives from the industry contact us.” Institutions like the RIAA can obtain the IP addresses of downloaders who use peer-to-peer pro-grams like Limewire. In the case of students, the RIAA then sends a complaint to the university, which can match a name to an IP address. Beyond that, RIAA spokesperson Jenni Engebretsen will not discuss any particular steps the RIAA takes in tracking illegal downloading. “The RIAA does not comment on the specifics of our investigative processes...
...understand that patients or their parents are often so worried about cancer that they don?t even want to utter the word. I also know that I am no mind reader and I can only answer questions if they are posed to me. The chief complaint may have been nosebleed, but their chief worry was leukemia...