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...subscriber’s desktop. Now the technology may get a $100-million-dollar shot in the arm. Palfrey and James F. Moore, a former senior fellow at the Berkman Center, have teamed up with venture capitalists Richard Fishman and Ritchie Capital’s Steve Smith and Tom Crowley to raise $100 million for RSS Investors, LP, the first private equity fund geared toward investing in RSS technology...
...thugs shot and killed a teenager in the cab of his pickup in a parking lot. So many cars were being attacked in "smash-and-run" incidents while passing the Nickerson Gardens housing project that authorities walled off the adjacent highway with a spiked metal fence. Fire Captain Tom Crowley says arson has become a spectator sport, with punks torching buildings "just to watch us work." Bobby Spears, 31, a janitor and father of four, knows who robbed him recently but will not press charges out of fear for his family's safety...
DIED. James H. ("Sleepy Jim") Crowley, 83, last of the great "Four Horsemen" backfield that led Notre Dame to a 19-1 record in the 1923-24 seasons; in Scranton, Pa. The small (160 lbs.), swift Crowley was immortalized with his teammates by Sportswriter Grantland Rice: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden...
...thanks to the New Republic’s Michael Crowley—and a bit of recent double-checking—we now have one more reason to point and laugh the next time O’Reilly opens his mouth. Nine years ago, Crowley, an actual journalist, boldly decided to do some reporting before broadcasting a conclusion to millions of people. He interviewed almost all the operatives who ran the 1992 convention, and many of the journalists who covered it at the time...
...microbiology at Vion. With a simple change in the bacterium's genome, the Vion team and Yale scientists were able to give salmonella the ability to convert a powerful compound found naturally in the body into a toxic chemotherapy agent. In a small pilot study conducted at the Mary Crowley Medical Research Center in Dallas, 2 of 3 patients given the modified salmonella showed signs that the chemotherapy agent was active. "It's a proof of principle that the strategy is working," says Bermudes. While his team seeks a partner to continue these studies, Vion is sufficiently convinced...