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Scientists have been raising the alarm about dioxins since the 1960s. After TCDD, the dioxin in Agent Orange, was found to cause cancer and birth defects, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) slapped an emergency ban on the herbicide in 1979. Dow and Monsanto, the chemical's largest manufacturers, eventually...
Then, on Dec. 15, came a sign that authorities may be cracking down on individuals suspected to be involved in the raid on Hermitage's assets. The Kremlin said that Medvedev had dismissed Anatoly Mikhalkin, the head of the tax crimes department of the Moscow police. Police spokeswoman Zhanna Ozhimina...
While at Rutgers, Kaiser taught three classes that served both as early versions of English 154 and as part of the expansion of the Rutgers’ Women’s Studies Department into gender studies. He says he hoped the course would make gender studies “palatable?...
Damn straight, Harvard’s got a AAA credit rating. And we're champs in the debt department with a bitchin’ $6 billion! Wait…that isn’t something to be proud of? Oops.
The Administration announced earlier this year that the long-range Iranian threat isn't advancing as quickly as once feared. Recent U.S. intelligence assessments have concluded that "the threat of a potential Iranian ICBM had been slower to develop than previously estimated," Ellen Tauscher, the State Department's arms-control...