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...Palestinians were shot and clubbed down as thousands were marched to a barbed-wire pen in a schoolyard for interrogation by Israelis hunting for renegade Egyptian soldiers and Fedayeen guerrillas. The Israelis deny that either event was a massacre, disputing the casualty figures and suggesting their soldiers killed smaller numbers of Palestinians in the course of suppressing riots and other resistance. (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...
Fuqua directed Denzel Washington to an Oscar and Hawke to a nomination in Training Day, and this movie feels very much like a return to that material, but with add-ons, specifically a third male lead. Actually, a fourth if you count Wesley Snipes, who has a smaller but pivotal part as a lusciously smooth drug dealer named Cassanova. With all these balls in the air, the viewer gets impatient for them to come together. The aim is clearly epic - this film aspires to be Serpico, New Jack City and Training Day all rolled into one - but by the time...
Crowley, now the chairman and CEO of Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company in New Jersey, says that with even medium and larger companies cutting back on research and development and many smaller companies having gone out of business, he expects “[to] see five to seven years from now a huge gap in medical investments...a drought...
...group including several Harvard researchers has developed a new microfluidic screening device that can run biochemical experiments on a much smaller, faster, and more cost-effective scale...
Ultimately, Pelosi may have to change the votes of a handful of conservative Democrats who voted against the original House bill in November. She'll argue that the newer version is smaller and less expensive. It also does not include a government-run public option for providing coverage to the uninsured - a provision of the original House measure that had been anathema to those who saw it as the leading edge of what they feared would be a government takeover of health care...