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Highlight Reel:1. On Christie's chief auctioneer, Christopher Burge: "Many would die to get their hands on Burge's highly confidential 'book.' It's a sort of script for the sale. Tonight's contains sixty-four pages, one for each lot of art. A single page contains an annotated chart of where everyone is sitting, marked with who is expected to bid and whether that person is an aggressive buyer or a 'bottom-feeder' looking for a bargain. On each page Burge has also recorded the amounts left by absentee bidders, the seller's reserve (the price under which...
...Earlier last week a panel commissioned by the Science Board released its review of the FDA's safety report, which concluded in August that current levels of BPA exposure posed no real health risk. The Science Board convened Friday to discuss the panel's findings - a highly critical 17-page review that deemed the FDA's conclusions flawed - and to hear comments from the public about whether the compound should be banned from food and beverage containers. The board will now forward the review along with the FDA's original safety assessment to FDA chief Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach...
Although Rashid says he misses his family, friends, and even 300-page reading assignments, he says he wouldn’t have missed this opportunity on the campaign trail...
...campaigns director, convey an infectious energy about the election. White says that the number of new people getting involved in canvassing trips is “phenomenal.” Even their most hardcore of Hillary supporters have now fully converted to the Obama camp (see story, page C21). Zafran says that he is optimistic about the youth vote in this election, calling the number of volunteers “astounding...
...Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona told the press that Bush administration officials tried to suppress public health reports, including one on the dangers of secondhand smoke, for political reasons. Carmona was also required to mention Bush’s name three times in each page of his speeches, and was even told he couldn’t attend the Special Olympics because the organization was supported by the Kennedys. Needless to say, Carmona was not asked to serve a second term...