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Markopolos, a private-securities fraud investigator, is the man the SEC ignored for nine years. The whistle-blower presented damning evidence against the SEC's handling of the Madoff case in a House Financial Services Committee hearing last week, where he detailed his unsuccessful quest to have the SEC stop Madoff's global Ponzi. Nevertheless, he said, he would deliver fresh evidence on two new cases...
...researchers also raised the possibility that sarcosine could be a "therapeutic target" that might one day offer an effective treatment of the disease. In laboratory tests, they found that adding sarcosine to prostate cells caused benign cells to become cancerous and invasive. The researchers hope that drugs that stop sarcosine from working could effectively contain prostate cancer and maybe even have implications for other cancer treatments...
...inject some economic realism into our foreign policy [Feb. 2]. An America that shows an understanding of its limitations and a fiscal pragmatism in its foreign policy will command far greater respect abroad than one that takes the dogmatic, open-checkbook approach of the Bush Administration. But why stop with Iraq and Afghanistan? Barack Obama should look at the rationale for maintaining forces in Germany, Japan and South Korea. Even among our allies, our presence on their soil makes little sense to many and is not appreciated. Our days as the world's policeman are over, and that...
...rally isn't over. The fear that China will stop buying U.S. debt is unfounded. Beijing can't buy anything else with its excess dollars. There are simply no alternative investments that are large enough or liquid enough. But more importantly, there are fundamental reasons why Treasury prices will move much higher (and yields lower) - and why the current opportunity to go long U.S. Treasuries should be grasped with both hands...
...Many in the crowd were willing to echo the President's sentiments. A retired air-force member, 68-year-old Ali Amir-Hosseini, vividly remembered the Ayatullah's return. "We staged a strike and were one of the first brigades to stop collaborating with the Shah's regime," he said, adding, "Back then, we had little pride. We really felt like the stooges of the U.S. Today, we are a proud people. At last we determine our own fate and the bigger powers just don't know how to deal with us." Then he asked a bystander listening in where...