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...recent court ruling against the University in the suit brought by former Associate Professor of Government Peter Berkowitz may finally force Harvard to open its tenure process to public scrutiny...
...aren't helping much either. Shielded from the vagaries of the free market by an artificially low rate, they have had no financial incentive to conserve. "It would be unfortunate, but probably healthy, to have a few blackouts so people would appreciate that this is a real problem," says Peter Cartwright, chairman of Calpine, a California-based generator...
...usual in controversial health issues these days, the lawyers may have the last say. Last month the Times of London reported that Peter Angelos, the managing partner of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team and a high-profile attorney who has won billions of dollars in damages from the tobacco and asbestos industries, would file suits against cell-phone makers and wireless-phone companies. Cell-phone stocks wobbled. Although Angelos' firm later said no filing was imminent, it has been carefully studying the issue. Angelos has also joined counsel for Baltimore neurologist Christopher Newman, who brought an $800 million suit against...
...other aspects of cellular metabolism, so that interfering with them will come at the price of serious side effects. For another, it is still far from proven that beta amyloid is as central to Alzheimer's disease as, say, cholesterol is to heart disease. Says molecular neurologist Dr. Peter St. George-Hyslop of the University of Toronto: "We have a theory and experimental data that support that theory, but we won't know the theory is right until we have a drug that actually prevents Alzheimer's disease...
...judge ruled that discovery should proceed in the case, which was filed by Peter Berkowitz, a professor denied tenure in the government department...