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Even some energy corporations that favor cap and trade in general, like North Carolina's Duke Energy, are lobbying against the act, claiming it would hit coal-dependent utilities too hard. Some green groups like Friends of the Earth (FoE) also oppose it, arguing the bill's emission-reduction goals are too timid. They want to wait to pass legislation until 2009, when a new President and Congress will presumably be more open to a stronger measure. "It is a wholly inadequate response to the greatest environmental crisis of our time," said FoE president Brent Blackwelder...
...Death Star as a metaphor for the Soviet Union. Others contain casting advice, such as the suggestion that Kirsten Dunst replace both child actor Jake Lloyd, as young Anakin Skywalker, and Natalie Portman, as Padme Amidala, in the prequel films. "I know this is possible," says a writer named Duke, "since Jean-Claude Van Damme has done it. lf Van Damme can do it, Mr. Lucas, then Kirsten can, and much, much better...
Ruth Day, a researcher at Duke University, has been studying drug commercials since the late 1990s. She and her small staff at Duke's Medical Cognition Laboratory record hours of television every day, isolate drug commercials, and systematically measure their "cognitive accessibility." It's the kind of research that also helps Day explain how well, for example, jurors understand instructions given in court. Day (whose research is not funded by either the industry or the FDA) analyzes ads for their linguistic complexity, speed of voiceovers, visual distractions and the timing of when information is given about drug benefits and side...
...Cypher were the first direct-to-consumer advertising for a medical device. Cypher was the first company to advertise percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty with drug-eluting coronary stents, but other types of medical devices had been advertised on television previously. Also, a previous version of the article stated that Duke researcher Ruth Day had no financial connection to the Food & Drug Administration. She has worked as a consultant for FDA in the past, but her research is not funded...
Psychiatrists led by Guy Potter at Duke University conducted a study of more than 1,000 male twins, most of whom were World War II veterans. Potter collected 50-year-old data on the vets' IQ scores when they joined the Army, and then compared them to cognitive test scores the men generated after they retired from various jobs. He found that those who scored in the bottom quartile of the IQ scale when they were in their 20s, and then took on mentally challenging jobs, had the greatest gains on the cognitive tests in their 70s. "Being...