A new study has shown that all of the stem cell lines that were in existence when President Bush announced his restrictive policy on stem cell research may be contaminated, rendering them essentially useless for human therapies.Federal … [Read more...]
You call that a crisis? THIS is a crisis.
Link: (hat tip to New Donkey)LONDON, England (AP) -- Global warming isapproaching the critical point of no return, after which widespreaddrought, crop failure and rising sea-levels would be irreversible, aninternational climate change task … [Read more...]
One of the most bizarre things I’ve ever read
From a complaint brought by the Oklahoma Attorney General to remove elected trial judge Donald D. Thompson from the bench (he was removed and was recently charged with indecent exposure):Judge Thompson violated these Canons [of judicial … [Read more...]
DiMasi Rakes It In
An aide to DiMasi declined comment.The top fund-raiser in the House during 2004 continued to be the man DiMasi replaced, former Speaker Thomas Finneran, D-Boston.Finneran,who accepted a job as president of the Massachusetts … [Read more...]
I am SO sick of this
From today's WaPo:"As we move forward with our efforts to talk about the problem and the need for reform, administration officials are talking about what leaders of the Democrat Party have said about the problem," White House … [Read more...]
Is Mimi sick with a bacteria, or a virus?
I'm not going to link to a bad review out of respect for fellow musicians, so I'll just quote this for you, from today's Globe, in a review of a La Boheme in Boston:The computer scrambled the surtitles and repeatedly sabotaged … [Read more...]
Do NOT let your grandpa shovel snow!
Happens all the time. Longtime Boston Globe political columnist David Nyhan died this morning after being rushed to the hospital when he collapsed while shoveling snow. He was 64.Horrible. … [Read more...]
Boston Terror Suspect Already Arrested
This is the kind of news report that, along with the FBI's admission it cannot design a computer system even with a $170 million budget, makes one uneasy about how well our security is being protected:The FBI has announced that a Chinese … [Read more...]