| Future M.D. says no to handouts of drugmakers
UNC-CH medical student Anthony Fleg and his wife, Shannon Fleg, a social research associate for the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, will speak today as part of Orange County's observance of Human Relations Month. Together, the Flegs serve as coordinators of the Native Health Initiative, which partners with American Indian tribes in the state to improve well-being. WHERE: Carrboro Century Center, 100 N. Greensboro St., Carrboro WHEN: 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. today WHAT: Kickoff event for Human Relations Month. The event will also include musical entertainment by the band Big Much and a performance by the Chuck Davis African-American Dance Ensemble.
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Barack Obama says victory in South Carolina proves he has diverse ...
With wins in heavily white Iowa and in South Carolina, where about half of Saturday's voters were black, Obama said he has proven he can win in any region. He said he wants to disprove "the assumption that young people are apathetic" and "the assumption that African-Americans can't support the white candidate; whites can't support the African-American candidate; blacks and Latinos can't come together." Even as he spoke, Obama got a boost from Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy. "Over the years, I've been deeply moved by the people who've told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president," she wrote in the Sunday's edition of The New York Times. "That is why I am supporting a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama." After his speech, Obama flew to Macon, Ga., where he planned to attend a church service Sunday before campaigning in Birmingham, Ala.
Sports Medicine Emerges as Leading Authority in Field It Helped ...
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of drug and medical information services and content to the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, announced that Adis Sports Medicine has achieved the highest Impact Factor ranking in its category, making it the most frequently cited journal by researchers on the subject of sports medicine. Launched in 1984 when sports medicine was still in its infancy, Sports Medicine was the first journal to focus on publishing review articles on the topic of sports science. All during that time -- with the same founding editor at the helm -- its editorial has stayed true to the fast-growing field and, although in the past few years it has been a serious contender, this is the first year it has taken the top Impact Factor slot.
The Surreal World of the Progressive Left
Rhetorically, they are passionate proponents of “equality" but in practice they are committed enthusiasts of a hierarchy of privilege in which the highest ranks are reserved for themselves as the guardians of righteousness, and then for those they designate “victims" and “oppressed," who are thus worthy of their redemption. Rhetorically they are secularists and avatars of tolerance, but in fact they are religious fanatics who regard their opponents as sinners and miscreants and agents of civil darkness. Therefore, when they engage an opponent it is rarely to examine and refute his argument but rather to destroy the bearer of the argument and remove him from the plain of battle. Consequently, misrepresentation of facts, distortion of motives and general acts of character assassination are the preferred modes of progressive discourse, as any conservative who has acquired a public persona can attest.
Mannatech CEO handles a company of extremes
It's a tough road to hoe," he said. "We can monitor a hundred people, but if one gets by, it'll be rammed down our throat." Mannatech also points to a 14-year-old federal law that it says provides companies like itself leeway in marketing their products. With the passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, dietary ingredients used in dietary supplements are no longer subject to the pre-market safety evaluations required of other new food ingredients. Signed into law by President Clinton on Oct. 25, 1994, the act acknowledged that "millions of consumers believe dietary supplements may help to augment daily diets and provide health benefits," according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. "It's a supplement to a diet," Mr.
January 2008
But Ken also notes that his mailbag has been filled the past week with comments from Edwards supporters who believe that the media have written off Edwards as a serious candidate. Don't forget, they point out, that Clinton was being written off by the media before New Hampshire, Romney before Michigan and McCain was all but buried last summer. But then came Nevada, where Edwards finished with only four percent. Ken writes that the next test for Edwards is South Carolina. It's not do-or-die time, but it's a state he did win four years ago during his first run. "But if not South Carolina, then where?" 2:05 PM ET | 01-24-2008 | permalink | comments (4) | e-mail post | trackbacks (0) .
This Crisis Demands a Reappraisal of Who We Are and What Progress ...
Last year Joshuah Stolaroff, who has written a PhD on the subject, sent me some provisional costings, of £256-£458 per tonne of carbon. This makes the capture of CO2 from the air roughly three times as expensive as the British government's costings for building wind turbines, twice as expensive as nuclear power, slightly cheaper than tidal power and eight times cheaper than rooftop solar panels in the UK. But I suspect his figures are too low, as they suggest this method is cheaper than catching CO2 from purpose-built power stations, which cannot be true. The Kyoto protocol, whose replacement the Bali meeting will discuss, has failed. Since it was signed, there has been an acceleration in global emissions: the rate of CO2 production exceeds the IPCC's worst case and is now growing faster than at any time since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
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