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...feds are monitoring nonverbal forms of contact too. As revealed last week, a U.S. deal with an international banking consortium, SWIFT, lets intelligence officials look at the financial transactions of suspected terrorists. In its pursuit of serious jihadists with moneyed connections abroad (a category the FBI admits Seas of David does not belong in) the program, run out of the CIA, targets millions of bank transfers, some of which appear to have involved U.S. residents, or even U.S. citizens, and many others that...
Potential consequences could be as serious as dismissal from the team, though Murphy was quick to add that "until I can ascertain the facts I would hesitate to say what the discipline action would be at this point...
Much has been written about the benefits of fish oil for the heart. So it came as a surprise last week when a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that, contrary to earlier beliefs, taking fish-oil supplements did not reduce the risk of serious abnormal heart rhythms, the kind responsible for sudden cardiac death. You might be tempted to seize on this finding as yet another failure of a popular dietary supplement to protect health. That would be a mistake, because the study is of limited relevance to the general population. The benefits...
...subjects in the J.A.M.A. study had serious heart disease; all had or were about to have defibrillators implanted in their chests to shock their hearts out of episodes of potentially fatal arrhythmias. Two grams of fish oil a day did not reduce the incidence of those episodes or improve death rates. The study was well designed, but even its authors wonder about its significance for healthy people who want to eat right. Not much, to my mind. I take two grams of fish oil a day and recommend that almost everyone...
Some corporations are naturally attracted to music audiences, and are willing to pony up the serious money needed to stage large events and draw big-name acts. For mobile-phone firms like Virgin and O2, it's a branding exercise in front of a natural consumer base. And for beer companies too, it's not just about selling suds to fans. Heineken backs Spain's FIB as well as the Oxegen Festival in Ireland; in Germany Becks is sponsoring 15 summer events this year. "You directly want to link in to something with scale, and yes, there is a cool...