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...learned today that Bernie Madoff's wife, Ruth, withdrew some $10 million on Dec. 10, 2008, the day before her husband turned himself in to authorities and confessed his financial empire was all one big $50 billion...
...even know that sarcosine is the most promising metabolite," says Michael Shen, also a professor at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, who co-authored the Nature commentary with Abate-Shen, his wife. "It's the one they focused on. There are other metabolites identified in their study that could easily be as interesting [as] or more interesting [than] sarcosine. So it would be very promising to look at the predictability of these individual metabolites, but also their combination...
...somehow jeopardized the security of those on the trip through his messages, or Tweets. "On this trip, nothing was classified as secret or top secret or anything like that," Hoekstra told TIME. "A whole range of people know about the trip, people with no security clearances, including my wife." (See the top 10 celebrity Twitter feeds...
...safe assumption that none of the estimated 6 million Twitterers know Hoekstra as well as his wife, or even know him at all in the real world. But that, of course, is the appeal of the micro-blogging service. Folks can update their followers on what they are doing, thinking, enjoying or avoiding, all in 140 characters or less. For Representatives used to having their messages and contacts heavily filtered, Twitter offers a real-time connection with constituents and the media, for better or worse. (Read "Why Everyone's Talking About Twitter...
...then you're stuck," he says. On a typical day, which usually includes six hours' collecting goods and two hours' sorting and selling items to middlemen at a municipal lot, he clears around $3.50. A good day means double that, which is still not very much for him, his wife and the four school-age kids they have at home. He earns around half the monthly minimum wage of $175, average for people in his line of work. (See pictures of India's slumdog recycling entrepreneurs...