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...Xbox for Christmas? Well, after seeing “Akeelah and the Bee,” it will undoubtedly be winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.Akeelah (Keke Palmer, “Madea’s Family Reunion”), an underprivileged girl from the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles, takes on the prestigious spelling bee. Through her training, she learns more than just etymology—she receives an invaluable lesson about motivation, balancing proper English and slang, and even pre-pubescent love.Director Doug Atchison certainly had to go to great lengths to get this inspirational drama...
...plaintiffs MIT, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and Ariad Pharmaceuticals are seeking royalties from two of Eli Lilly’s drugs, Evista and Xigris. The institutions claim the drugs infringe on a patent they were jointly awarded in 2002. The trial began April 10 in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Closing arguments are scheduled to take place tomorrow. The patent covers methods of treating diseases by modulating the activity of the molecule NF-kB, a “transcription factor” involved in protein production. Scientists from Harvard, MIT, and the Whitehead Institute discovered...
When Baghdad's notorious Adhamiya district exploded in vicious gun battles last week, few were really surprised. The area, rich with former army, intelligence and secret police officers from Saddam's regime, had been trumpeted by the U.S. military as a former insurgent hot spot brought under control - a success story in the effort to hand over more of the responsibilities for keeping order to the Iraqis. Yet most on the ground knew that beneath the suburb's surface, trouble still brewed. U.S. military intelligence believed the town was still being used by the Ba'ath insurgents as a command...
...arrived, so the enemy was pretty determined. They did not just fade away," says the MiTT team chief Major Chuck Markos, whose men were hit with flurries of rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire. "It was significant." The exchanges lasted until shortly before lunch. By mid-day, the district was boarded up, bereft of traffic or life, but quiet. The next morning at about 6 a.m., hostilities started again, with several more hours of fighting before quiet finally returned. By week's end, the scene was tense but trouble free. Cars are back on the street, but many shops...
...safe haven for any number of anti-American organizations, which share intelligence and weapons and coordinate their activities. According to insurgent sources, the groups agreed that only sparing attacks would be launched locally so as not to attract U.S. attention. American brigade commander Col. Thomas Vail says the district's concentration of working poor made it easy for insurgents to hide. "It was easy sanctuary," he says...