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...quote comes from a tablet currently on display at Harvard's Semitic Museum. It is part of an exhibit on the excavations of the town of Nuzi, a small provincial city in northern Mesopotamia that was once part of the Mittani kingdom, a Near Eastern world power from around 1500 B.C.E. The tablet is one of 14 preserved from the deposition of Kushshi-harbe, the mayor of Nuzi, during investigations into his sexual misconduct and criminal behavior...
...criminally corrupt, mayor" and says the museum was "keenly aware of a certain bitter irony." The article's ending makes the connection between the two scandals explicit: "So what happened to Kushshi-harbe, the alleged philandering leader of Nuzi? No tipoff to Clinton's fate there. The cuneiform tablet with the ruling has never been found...
...with the ease of use and gee-whiz factor of a consumer electronics gadget. Gates, in fact, says the executive changes will allow him to spend more time with his nerdy brethren, working on "architectural breakthroughs" for such devices, including TV set-top boxes, smart phones and tablet computers...
...would have guessed that a little baby-blue tablet designed to restore potency to the impotent would pack such a wallop? In June, Kaiser Permanente, the giant HMO with the imperial name, announced that it had decided not to cover the cost of the $10 erection pill for its 9 million members. Just three weeks later, the little pill had become a symbol of one of the nation's hottest political issues: what HMOs do and don't pay for. Viagra's role in the debate was heightened last week when the federal agency that administers Medicaid told the states...
...Cancer Center in Houston are testing an antibody to EGF receptors in patients with advanced head and neck cancers. But most other groups, including teams at drug makers Pfizer, Novartis and Zeneca, are using smaller molecules that, unlike antibodies, could ultimately be taken orally. "We have a very exciting tablet that is taken once a day," says Dr. George Blackledge, head of new cancer projects at the Zeneca Group. Testing on patients is still at a very early stage. "We have to be cautious," he says, "but potentially this could be an effective new treatment for the most common type...