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...many more rules remain on the books. They include regulations that allow mountaintop-removal mining projects to pollute streambeds with leftover dirt, and a Bush move to begin to permit drilling for oil and gas on the Outer Continental Shelf. Worse, they also include a drastic weakening of the Endangered Species Act, allowing federal agencies to bypass expert advice from federal scientists on whether proposed projects would have an impact on endangered species, essentially cutting the heart out of the act. "The number of regulations where the Bush Administration succeeded far outnumbered the ones where they failed," says Walke...
...trial will enroll patients with injury to the thoracic region, high in the spinal cord between the third and 10th vertebrae. Doctors will be trained to inject the cell treatment at specific locations, where the cells will remain to do their nerve-nurturing work. "I think it's incredibly exciting," says Dr. Susan Fisher, a stem-cell scientist and a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive science at University of California, San Francisco. "This really provides a blueprint for how to do these sorts of trials. It really proves the principle that these sorts of human embryonic-stem-cell therapies...
...Jimmy Jellinek, who was previously in charge of Playboy's website. Playboy.com will be relaunched in February with an emphasis on "sight, sound and motion," including instructional videos, says Jellinek. (Yes, some of the instructional videos will be about sex. No, they will not be explicit.) The editors who remain at the magazine will be expected to devise stories for the website as well...
...possible scenario under the many current agreements could have the Treasury exercising its warrants for non-voting shares, Fiat raising its stake to 55%, Daimler holding onto its share, and Cerberus and the executives holding the rest. Or, nobody could choose to exercise their rights, and Cerberus would remain the majority owner. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...carbon emissions will be knottier. Although Obama has surrounded himself with scientists who believe that global warming is our biggest threat - including Nobel Prize-winner Steven Chu as Energy Secretary, and Harvard's John Holdren as White House science adviser - members of the President-elect's economic team reportedly remain doubtful that cutting carbon is worth the money. And even though Obama has pledged to listen to his scientists "even when it's inconvenient - especially when it's inconvenient," it's the economy that remains front and center in the public realm. (Read "Despite the Economy, Obama Vows to Press...