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...already taken steps in the right direction. In March, the agency’s director, Lisa Jackson, announced a plan to inspect disposal sites, order cleanups and repairs, and develop safety regulations to be announced by December. Furthermore, Representative Nick Rahall has proposed legislation that would federally mandate engineering standards for fly-ash impoundments. The TVA is now preparing to convert its coal waste disposal from slurry form to dry storage, which is much less likely to leach into soil and cause toxic spills...
...starts to become human. She also develops a taste for the food humans like. Mmmm, ham! - more savory than plankton. And in one of the film's many lovely vignettes, she enjoys her first sip of honeyed tea. Ponyo is accepted into the household by Sosuke's mother Lisa (Tina Fey), who works in a senior center; the boy's father Koichi (Matt Damon) is a fisherman whose job keeps him at sea for nights...
...sure, no one is accusing authors like Albain of racism, and people on both sides of the debate want to save lives. But the treatment of race by some medical researchers continues to create a stir. Lisa Carey, a breast cancer specialist at the University of North Carolina, believes that biological differences may well contribute to differences in health, such as the one Albain found, but that any discussion of race turns automatically contentious. "The idea of differences between races has been fraught with misuse over the years, and not just in medicine. Everyone is leery that it could...
Like a modern-day Sherlock Holmes in scrubs, the title character of House can solve just about any medical mystery. That's not altogether unrealistic, says Dr. Lisa Sanders, the show's technical adviser. Sanders, an internist and the author of Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis, talked to TIME about House's flesh-and-blood counterparts, how we can teach more doctors to be like them and how patients can help. (Read a TIME special report on health care...
...near beer are obvious. "I can go to a party, drink a good-flavored beer and drive home," she says. "And when my kids get up at 7 a.m. the next morning, I don't have a hangover." Now that's worth raising a glass to. With reporting by Lisa Abend / Cadaqu...