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...role in Enron's financial fraud in part because of an e-mail that told employees to eliminate any unnecessary paperwork. A shredding party ensued. In the Martha Stewart insider-trading case, jurors said one of the more damaging pieces of evidence had to do with the fact that Stewart tried to alter an e-mail that had been sent by her assistant. Prosecutors used an e-mail exchange between Stewart and her broker that occurred shortly before Stewart sold her Imclone shares to prove that they knew they were acting on insider information. Stewart was convicted in the case...
...fact that the human gut flora flourished in the rodents was indeed an experimental coup. Since the mice were genetically engineered to be germ-free, lacking a functioning immune system, the scientists could be certain that any bug colonies that took hold in the mouse guts originated entirely from the human sample, not the mice. Being able to recreate the living human gut environment so faithfully in an animal was a welcome prize. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...profile" could potentially serve as a diagnostic tool for identifying who might have a propensity for obesity. If, for instance, your gut environment contains a preponderance of Firmicutes, then your body may be predisposed to digest calories in a way that leads to greater fat storage. In fact, in Gordon's earlier work with identical twins of different weights, he found that the obese twin tended to have more Firmicutes colonies than the leaner...
...group’s fundraising coordinator Emily K. Cunningham ’13 said the fact that Amjadi was invited to such a high-level interview shows how powerful the larger student anti-genocide movement has become...
Baker began with an informal survey of the demographics of the audience, resulting in a discovery that out of the about 50 students in the room, only about three students were, in fact, Massachusetts voters...