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...self-proclaimed “salesman of science,” C. Ronald Kahn says he loves simplifying the complexity of Type 2 Diabetes in order to teach the general public about the disease...
...Joslin by Kahn’s reputation as a mentor, and by his work with the recently developed fat-specific insulin receptor knockout mouse, a genetically modified animal whose fat cells are unaffected by insulin. The lean, long-lived mouse holds potential for treating diabetes and aging in general, and it is only one of the many topics studied in Kahn’s interdisciplinary, collaborative...
...past 18 months. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which investigated the Siegelman case as part of a broader inquiry into alleged political interference in the hiring and firing of U.S. Attorneys by the Bush Justice Department, last week sent an eight-page letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey citing the new material...
...Siegelman was released on bail earlier this year after a federal court ruled that his appeal raises "substantial questions." But the issue that turned the case into a national controversy was the allegation of political bias. Critics, including a bipartisan group of 52 state attorneys general, have raised numerous questions, including the allegation that Siegelman was prosecuted at the insistence of Bush-appointed officials at the Justice Department and Leura G. Canary, a U.S. Attorney in Montgomery whose husband was Alabama's top Republican operative and who had worked closely with Rove for years...
...NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has consistently called on Europeans to shoulder more of the burden, and particularly to lift so-called "caveats" that some countries have in place to limit deployments to relatively safe parts of Afghanistan. Yet he acknowledges that Europeans are very active in institution building, civic reconstruction, economic assistance, advising on tackling corruption, and helping the Afghan and Pakistani governments improve border security - all areas where the E.U. has a lot of experience...