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...Pharmaceutical industry ties have been a particularly hot issue at the Medical School this past year, prompting student protests last fall over the level of disclosure for professors receiving money from medical corporations, and bringing HMS national scrutiny this summer, when Grassley reported that psychiatrist Joseph Biederman of Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital received $1.6 million in consulting and speaking fees from the makers of drugs he used to treat children for bipolar disorders...
...week earlier, on Jan. 8, the SEC came knocking on Joseph Forte's door in Broomall, Pa., for allegedly scamming 80 investors out of $50 million. Forte had been selling false securities in limited partnerships since 1995. Forte's forte, the SEC says, was in reporting consistent annual returns of 18% to 37%. In actuality, the fund's only real consistency was in its losses. On Sept. 30, 2008, Forte said his fund was valued at $150 million, while the actual balance was about $147,000. Whoops! (See the worst business deals...
...make the transition to a low-carbon economy. (Offsets are projects in which companies pay to reduce carbon emissions more cheaply elsewhere, often by funding energy efficiency programs or through forestry, rather than cutting their own emissions.) But as the blogger and former Clinton Administration Energy Department official Joseph Romm has pointed out, total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions were 7.4 billion metric tons in 2005 - meaning that under USCAP, industry could get away with offsetting more than a 25% of total emissions...
...Joseph G. Pike worked in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health before he took an interest in proctoring. Pike said that one of the most important tasks of proctors is to promote fairness by enforcing the designated start and finish times of the exam and monitor test-takers for cheating. “A proctor should regulate the examination environment to make sure that the experience is the same for each student,” he said...
...Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican and the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, reported last June that psychiatrist Joseph Biederman of Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital received $1.6 million in consulting and speaking fees from the makers of drugs that he used to treat children for bipolar disorders...