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There may be a Nov. 1 election, but not this year or even in 2008, according to Brown. In an Oct. 6 interview with the BBC, the Prime Minister ruled out a fall poll, adding "I think it's very unlikely that [an election] will happen in the next period. I think the important thing is that we get on with the business of change in this country because people do want change and I'm responding to that demand...
Lack of oversight means lack of policing, which often leads to underreporting of potentially fatal accidents. Labs are required by law to report mishaps with select agents immediately to the CDC, but that doesn't always happen. Case in point: Last year, a bio-lab worker at Texas A&M University became infected with the deadly brucellosis virus. The university did not report the case and may never have admitted it if an industry gadfly, Edward Hammond of the Sunshine Project, had not persuaded a local district attorney to strong-arm the university into giving up its internal records...
...While we can’t predict what will happen with humans, we hope it will have similar results to rats,” Binshtok said...
...team. People started shouting for the anthemic “Cubs in Five” early on, and Darnielle finally gave in, despite the curse he feared. “This song is about something you think is totally impossible and that’s never going to happen, and now, when it looks like it might happen, you want me to sing it?” Darnielle asked the crowd. “If you had written a song called ‘Red Sox in Five,’ would you be singing...
...after Siegelman that they showed almost no interest in tracking down what Young said about apparently illegal contributions to Sessions, Pryor, other well-known figures in the Alabama G.O.P. and even a few of the state's Democrats. "It just didn't seem like that was ever going to happen," said an individual present during key parts of the investigation. "Sessions and Pryor were on the home team...