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OUTLYING PRECINCTS
TIME - If the New Hampshire Democratic Party's 100 Club dinner is any
bell weather Barack Obama will handily win here. When Obama, the
dinner's last speaker, took the stage the crowd surged forward chanting
"O-bam-a" and "Fired Up, Ready to Go!" So many people pressed toward the
stage that an announcer asked people to "please take their seats for
safety concerns." By comparison Hillary was twice booed. The first time
was when she said she has always and will continue to work for "change
for you." The audience, particularly from Obama supporters (they were
waving Obama signs) let out a noise that sounded like a thousand people
collectively groaning. The second time came a few minutes later when
Clinton said: "The there are two big questions for voters in New
Hampshire. One is: who will be ready to lead from day one? The second,"
- and here Clinton was forced to pause as boos from the crowd mixed with
cheers from her own supporters. - "is who can we nominate who will go
the distance against the Republicans?"
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/01/
hillary_booed_at_nh_democratic.html
MOTHER JONES - The United States military could stay in Iraq for "maybe
a hundred years" and that "would be fine with me," John McCain told two
hundred or so people at a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/01/6735_mccain_in_nh_wo.html
CNN SPECULATES THAT Hillary Clinton might appoint Bill Clinton to the
Supreme Court if she were elected. One little problem: Clinton was once
disbarred by that court, which might lower is ABA rating slightly.
http://famguardian.org/Subjects/LawAndGovt/News/ClintonDisbar-011001.htm
WALTER SHAPIRO, SALON - As someone who has watched Edwards closely
since 2001, I would like to dissent from the fast-forming conventional
wisdom that the 2004 vice-presidential nominee lost in Iowa because his
populist message was too harsh. Edwards lost because the fervor for
Obama overwhelmed everything else in Iowa. In fact, since turnout was
almost 100,000 greater than the Edwards campaign had anticipated, it
says something that he still managed to run even with the Clinton
machine. And a final word about Iowa's runner-up: According to a
statistic that I read in this morning's Des Moines Register, Obama spent
more days in the state this year than supposedly Iowa-centric Edwards.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/01/04/rethinking_edwards_in_iowa.html
AP - Disgraced political donor Norman Hsu was sentenced to three years
in prison after a judge rejected his bid to throw out a 16-year-old
fraud conviction. . .
His troubles began dogging Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other
big-name Democrats last summer when news reports revealed he was a
fugitive who fled the state before he was sentenced for the 1992 fraud
conviction. He turned himself in on Aug. 31 - then fled again. He was
recaptured in September in Colorado after he tried to kill himself by
overdosing on drugs aboard an eastbound Amtrak train. Hsu has since been
held without bail in a Redwood City jail.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/01/04/state/n114915S37.DTL
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ECOLOGY & SCIENCE
A LAWYER'S VIEW OF NATURE
http://www.nelsonrocks.org/disclaimer.html?Active=1
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HEALTH & SCIENCE
SCIENTIFIC BLOGGING - In the first study examining American physicians'
use of placebos in clinical practice in the 21st Century, 45 percent of
Chicago internists report they have used a placebo at some time during
their clinical practice researchers report in the January issue of
Journal of General Internal Medicine. This study indicates a need for
greater recognition of the use of placebos and unproven therapies and
discussion about its implications," say the study authors, Rachel
Sherman, a fourth year medical student at the University of Chicago's
Pritzker School of Medicine, and John Hickner, MD, MSc, professor of
family medicine, at the University of Chicago and University of Chicago
Medical Center. . . "Placebos have been used in medicine since ancient
times, and remain both clinically relevant and philosophically
interesting. In addition to their recognized use as controls in clinical
trials, this study suggests that placebos themselves are viewed as
therapeutic tools in medical practice," says Sherman. Of the respondents
who reported using placebos in clinical practice, 34 percent introduced
the placebos to the patient as "a substance that may help and will not
hurt." Nineteen percent said, "it is medication," and nine percent said,
"it is medicine with no specific effect." Only four percent of the
physicians explicitly said, "it is a placebo." In addition, 33 percent
of the physicians reported they gave other information to patients,
including, "this may help you but I am not sure how it works."
http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/45_percent_of_
doctors_in_study_say_they_have_used_a_placebo
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TORTURE
NY TIMES - Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey said Wednesday that the
Justice Department had elevated its inquiry into the destruction of
Central Intelligence Agency interrogation videotapes to a formal
criminal investigation headed by a career federal prosecutor. The
announcement is the first indication that investigators have concluded
on a preliminary basis that C.I.A. officers, possibly along with other
government officials, may have committed criminal acts in their handling
of the tapes, which recorded the interrogations in 2002 of two
operatives with Al Qaeda and were destroyed in 2005. C.I.A. officials
have for years feared becoming entangled in a criminal investigation
involving alleged improprieties in secret counterterrorism programs.
Now, the investigation and a probable grand jury inquiry will scrutinize
the actions of some of the highest-ranking current and former officials
at the agency.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/washington/03intel.html?_r
=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
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FURTHERMORE. . .
GENERATE YOUR OWN JARGON
http://www.sciencegeek.net/lingo.html
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TIME - If the New Hampshire Democratic Party's 100 Club dinner is any
bell weather Barack Obama will handily win here. When Obama, the
dinner's last speaker, took the stage the crowd surged forward chanting
"O-bam-a" and "Fired Up, Ready to Go!" So many people pressed toward the
stage that an announcer asked people to "please take their seats for
safety concerns." By comparison Hillary was twice booed. The first time
was when she said she has always and will continue to work for "change
for you." The audience, particularly from Obama supporters (they were
waving Obama signs) let out a noise that sounded like a thousand people
collectively groaning. The second time came a few minutes later when
Clinton said: "The there are two big questions for voters in New
Hampshire. One is: who will be ready to lead from day one? The second,"
- and here Clinton was forced to pause as boos from the crowd mixed with
cheers from her own supporters. - "is who can we nominate who will go
the distance against the Republicans?"
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/01/
hillary_booed_at_nh_democratic.html
MOTHER JONES - The United States military could stay in Iraq for "maybe
a hundred years" and that "would be fine with me," John McCain told two
hundred or so people at a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/01/6735_mccain_in_nh_wo.html
CNN SPECULATES THAT Hillary Clinton might appoint Bill Clinton to the
Supreme Court if she were elected. One little problem: Clinton was once
disbarred by that court, which might lower is ABA rating slightly.
http://famguardian.org/Subjects/LawAndGovt/News/ClintonDisbar-011001.htm
WALTER SHAPIRO, SALON - As someone who has watched Edwards closely
since 2001, I would like to dissent from the fast-forming conventional
wisdom that the 2004 vice-presidential nominee lost in Iowa because his
populist message was too harsh. Edwards lost because the fervor for
Obama overwhelmed everything else in Iowa. In fact, since turnout was
almost 100,000 greater than the Edwards campaign had anticipated, it
says something that he still managed to run even with the Clinton
machine. And a final word about Iowa's runner-up: According to a
statistic that I read in this morning's Des Moines Register, Obama spent
more days in the state this year than supposedly Iowa-centric Edwards.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/01/04/rethinking_edwards_in_iowa.html
AP - Disgraced political donor Norman Hsu was sentenced to three years
in prison after a judge rejected his bid to throw out a 16-year-old
fraud conviction. . .
His troubles began dogging Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other
big-name Democrats last summer when news reports revealed he was a
fugitive who fled the state before he was sentenced for the 1992 fraud
conviction. He turned himself in on Aug. 31 - then fled again. He was
recaptured in September in Colorado after he tried to kill himself by
overdosing on drugs aboard an eastbound Amtrak train. Hsu has since been
held without bail in a Redwood City jail.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/01/04/state/n114915S37.DTL
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ECOLOGY & SCIENCE
A LAWYER'S VIEW OF NATURE
http://www.nelsonrocks.org/disclaimer.html?Active=1
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HEALTH & SCIENCE
SCIENTIFIC BLOGGING - In the first study examining American physicians'
use of placebos in clinical practice in the 21st Century, 45 percent of
Chicago internists report they have used a placebo at some time during
their clinical practice researchers report in the January issue of
Journal of General Internal Medicine. This study indicates a need for
greater recognition of the use of placebos and unproven therapies and
discussion about its implications," say the study authors, Rachel
Sherman, a fourth year medical student at the University of Chicago's
Pritzker School of Medicine, and John Hickner, MD, MSc, professor of
family medicine, at the University of Chicago and University of Chicago
Medical Center. . . "Placebos have been used in medicine since ancient
times, and remain both clinically relevant and philosophically
interesting. In addition to their recognized use as controls in clinical
trials, this study suggests that placebos themselves are viewed as
therapeutic tools in medical practice," says Sherman. Of the respondents
who reported using placebos in clinical practice, 34 percent introduced
the placebos to the patient as "a substance that may help and will not
hurt." Nineteen percent said, "it is medication," and nine percent said,
"it is medicine with no specific effect." Only four percent of the
physicians explicitly said, "it is a placebo." In addition, 33 percent
of the physicians reported they gave other information to patients,
including, "this may help you but I am not sure how it works."
http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/45_percent_of_
doctors_in_study_say_they_have_used_a_placebo
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TORTURE
NY TIMES - Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey said Wednesday that the
Justice Department had elevated its inquiry into the destruction of
Central Intelligence Agency interrogation videotapes to a formal
criminal investigation headed by a career federal prosecutor. The
announcement is the first indication that investigators have concluded
on a preliminary basis that C.I.A. officers, possibly along with other
government officials, may have committed criminal acts in their handling
of the tapes, which recorded the interrogations in 2002 of two
operatives with Al Qaeda and were destroyed in 2005. C.I.A. officials
have for years feared becoming entangled in a criminal investigation
involving alleged improprieties in secret counterterrorism programs.
Now, the investigation and a probable grand jury inquiry will scrutinize
the actions of some of the highest-ranking current and former officials
at the agency.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/washington/03intel.html?_r
=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
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FURTHERMORE. . .
GENERATE YOUR OWN JARGON
http://www.sciencegeek.net/lingo.html
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