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DeLay's lawyer Richard Cullen says that if those who worked for the former House majority leader were doing anything shady, their boss had no inkling of it. "Certainly he would be very, very sad and disappointed if it turns out any of his staffers did anything that was inappropriate?not just illegal but inappropriate," Cullen tells TIME. "He demands honesty and excellence from his employees...
...Paris opera, is one of many who reckons that Mozart isn't the only composer who soothes. "You find the most appropriate music for the pathology," Mortier says. "For some people it might be [Johann Sebastian Bach's] 'Goldberg' Variations. For others it might be the second act of [Richard Wagner's] Tristan and Isolde. For a third it could be a Schubert quartet, and for another it's Mozart." Still, John Hughes reckons Mozart yields the best results. He's a neurologist at the University of Illinois Medical Center who specializes in epilepsy. One day a colleague handed...
CREATURE COMFORTS: SEASON ONE RICHARD GOLESZOWSKI Talking dogs and hamsters: big deal, eh? Yes, and a flat-out funny one in these 9-min. stop-motion gems, which put musings on various subjects by various Brits into the quizzical mouths of animated animals. An extension of Nick Park's Oscar-winning short (included on the DVD), this BBC series offers the sagest social critique this side of South Park...
...entice more drugmakers into biodefense, North Carolina Senator Richard Burr is sponsoring a bill that would establish a Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA) headed by a biosecurity czar. (Estimated cost: $1 billion annually.) His bill would require the government to make gradual payments to drug companies based on R&D milestones, similar to the way defense contracting works, and would grant companies a 10-year period of market exclusivity for drugs designated as countermeasures. (Drug-patent terms typically vary depending on the date the application was filed and when the product is actually marketed.) More controversial, the bill...
Overall, it's a cumbersome process that can leave companies with promising treatments in limbo for years. "You wouldn't expect a defense contractor to build an aircraft carrier without a contract, but they're expecting pharmaceutical companies to develop these drugs without contracts," says Richard Hollis, CEO of Hollis-Eden, a San Diego biotech hoping to sell the government a treatment for acute radiation syndrome (a blood sickness caused by a dirty bomb or nuclear explosion). Hollis says his company has spent $100 million on the drug, Neumeune, betting the feds would stockpile doses for 12 million...