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...well-know that the Minerals Management Service of the Interior Department is the second largest source of income to the U.S. government. Last year, it was revealed that employees of this office were routinely taking money and having sexual relationships with oil company executives. According to The Wall Street Journal, government employees were also given illegal recreational drugs. There is really nothing wrong with any of that if it does not cost the Treasury any money, but apparently it has. Leases with oil companies which pay royalties to the U.S. government may have been affected. The total amount of money...
...Back at square one, a group of researchers at Rockefeller University in New York City have some new ideas - and no shortage of optimism - about how to find the holy grail of AIDS research. Their approach to vaccine development, outlined online on March 15 in the journal Nature, is to abandon the as yet fruitless search for a magic bullet - which zeros in on just a single target to halt the virus - and instead try to mimic the body's natural, if rare and more diffuse, defense against the virus...
...brother of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel - who has been tapped to play a big role in health-care reform in the Obama Administration's Office of Management and Budget. Emanuel and Wyden teamed up in December to write an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal on the limits of employer-based health coverage. And though during the election campaign Barack Obama criticized John McCain for proposing a plan that, like Wyden's, would make employer-provided health benefits taxable, the Administration has suggested in recent weeks that it is open to such an approach...
Experience vs. Youth. A study of Canadian air-traffic controllers published in this month's Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests that an aging brain is just as sharp as a young one - at least when it comes to surveying the skies. While older controllers, aged 53 to 64, were slower on simple memory or decision-making tasks not directly related to air-traffic control than their younger peers, aged 20 to 27, they did equally well on tests that directly simulated the tasks of an air traffic controller. The study's lead author theorizes that decades of experience and expertise...
...first study, just published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (J.A.C.C.,) a team of eight researchers looking at more than 63,000 women who were participants in the ongoing Nurses' Health Study, found that those who reported basic symptoms of depression (like feeling down and incapable of happiness) had a higher-than-normal risk of coronary heart disease. And women who were clinically depressed were more than twice as likely as other women to suffer sudden cardiac death. None of the participants had heart problems at the study's outset, but nearly 8% had symptoms of depression...