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...challenged legally for anything that increases carbon dioxide emissions - like a new coal power plant - on the grounds that further climate change would further endanger the polar bear. "It would be the first time that the Bush Administration would recognize that global warming had a significant and specific impact on a living being," says Eben Burnham-Snyder, a spokesperson for Markey. "This could have a wide-ranging effect on the energy and environmental policies of this country...
...Various studies estimate the very wealthy contribute from $10 billion to more than $30 billion a year to the U.K. economy. That's a big impact from a small segment of the population. It's estimated that the top 0.1% of earners in Britain control as much as 4% of the nation's wealth - and over half of them are from somewhere else. According to the latest Forbes list of the world's billionaires, 17 of Britain's 41 billionaires are foreigners. They're drawn to the country in part by a tax break that exempts anyone born outside Britain...
...former student of Folkman's at Harvard Medical School. "I remember one of the things he said - 'When you talk to a bereaved family who has just lost a loved one, talk to them as if the person is still alive, because the family has not absorbed the impact of his death.' That's the way I feel about him now; that he is still alive, and we will keep his legacy alive...
...time-release contraceptive Norplant. Not only did Folkman's work on angiogenesis benefit cancer patients, but the same principles are now leading to novel treatments for reviving dying heart tissue, restoring circulation to tissues crippled by diabetes and improving vision in patients with macular degeneration. His theories may yet impact the treatment of other conditions, including obesity: "More recently, he had the idea that fat cells relied on blood vessels just like tumors, so you could control obesity by using blood vessel-growth inhibitors," says Li, who was inspired by Folkman to co-found an organization that promotes research...
...ENHANCE was never designed to provide outcomes, meaning the prevention of major adverse cardiovascular events such as heart attack or stroke," says Davies. "This was an interesting scientific exercise to look at the impact of the drug on plaque, which is itself a surrogate end point for these events...