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...firm connected to Exxon Mobil appears to be behind a ham-fisted youtube.com parody of AL GORE. (Hey, did you know he's considered boring? It's true!) In the Internet age, the only kind of political trick less trustworthy than a slick campaign ad is an amateurish...
...according to The Courant. Though Harvard has yet to hire its own prosecutor, it may choose to do so in the future. “We’re keeping all our options open right now,” Brainard said. Sheehan & Reeve of New Haven, Conn., the law firm defending Smiley, declined to comment Wednesday. Smiley’s lawyer, Richard Reeve, told The Courant last Sunday that Smiley had reported every map he had stolen. “Either the maps have legs themselves or there are other people taking maps,” he said...
...American politics, prospective candidates are never supposed to express unbridled enthusiasm and firm commitment to run too early in an election cycle, for fear of looking over eager or perhaps just peaking too soon. The way you're supposed to run for President, for instance, is to quietly make trips to Iowa and New Hampshire, campaign for a local Iowa candidate or two on a weekend, hire a few staffers and of course wait as long as you can before you actually declare you're running...
...Rosalynn Gill-Garrison couldn't disagree more. The chief scientific officer of Colorado biotech Sciona, one of the companies probed by the GAO, says her firm's reports differed for each fictional customer because each report is a function of both the genetic and the lifestyle information provided. Change half the function, she says, and you?re bound to get a different result. And although she concedes that nutrigenomics is a young field, she disagrees vehemently with the GAO?s claim that her company cannot back up its reports with sound science. "Can we tell you that in 30 years...
...person, based on his dietary and lifestyle profile, how to modify his diet and habits to keep his good (HDL) and bad (LDL) cholesterol in healthy balance. Ditto for other genetic markers. Sciona, says Gill-Garrison, makes sure that each nugget of advice it offers is built on a firm scientific foundation. And a bibliography on the company?s web site, she says, backs up that claim...