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...acre Chalk Hill vineyard in Sonoma County, Calif. Wayne Reaud (pronounced Ree-oh) has used his hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from asbestos and other "toxic tort" litigation to buy the local newspaper and a chunk of downtown real estate in his hometown of Beaumont, Texas. Maryland trial lawyer Peter Angelos, who has been involved in asbestos and tobacco litigation, owns the Baltimore Orioles...
...trial lawyers are finding new targets. Angelos, the Baltimore trial lawyer, is going after paint companies. He has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Maryland children whose lead poisoning was caused in part, he says, by lead paint in their homes. The Rhode Island attorney general has filed a similar lawsuit on behalf of victims in that state. As the government's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft heads into the remedy phase, more than 100 individual lawsuits have already been filed by trial lawyers on behalf of computer and software buyers...
...along the lower Mississippi to the area of "the Natches," where he found "the most charming prospects in the world." By the mid-1770s, colonial explorers were following rivers everywhere into the country. They came from central and western New York by way of the Ohio; from Maryland and Virginia by way of the Tennessee; from western North Carolina through gaps and passes in the Appalachians to the Tennessee and Mississippi valleys, along river routes hundreds of miles long...
...what he calls "pathological science, junk science, pseudoscience and fraudulent science." He has targets aplenty. From homeopathy to therapeutic touch, from UFO myths to cold fusion, from self-deluding scientists to scientifically illiterate legislators, all are subjected to his penetrating critiques. A physics professor at the University of Maryland, and director of the Washington office of the American Physical Society, Park has honed his expository skills in a host of newspaper articles and TV appearances, as well as in his influential weekly e-mail newsletter, What's New. His lucid and often amusing analyses make a powerful case for rational...
These sorts of tightly focused studies are already beginning to make cancer treatment more effective. Last year physicians approached the Maryland biotech company Gene Logic for guidance. They had a patient with esophageal cancer--an especially lethal type--so they wanted to find the best therapy in a hurry. Would radiation be appropriate? What about chemotherapy? And if so, which type? Or perhaps it made sense to go right to one of the new experimental antiangiogenesis medications that cut off a tumor's blood supply...