Researchers Fail to Reveal Full Drug Pay A world-renowned Harvard child psychiatrist whose work has helped fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines in children earned at least $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007 but for years did not report much of this income to university […]
"To err is human, to forgive, divine" Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism. 1711 What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception by Scott McClellan has certainly captured our attention these last few days. Even though most of us haven’t read the book, we still attack and defend it with great […]
There’s nothing much good to say about Ted Kennedy’s diagnosis of Malignant Glioma. But there’s plenty good to say about Ted Kennedy. I recall him speaking at a March on the one year anniversary of MLK’s assasination. It was an unruly gathering, interrupted by outbreaks of violence from black power supporters, tear gas drifting through […]
I knew that India was once floating in the ocean and slowly slid into Asia creating the Himilayas, but I had no idea that there was still this much seismic activity in inland Asia [bottom figure]. Earthquakes in China, Cyclones in Burma, Volcanos in Chile, Tornados in Georgia. The gods must be angry…
Chaiten Volcano Erupts After more than 9,000 years of silence, Chaitén Volcano in southern Chile erupted on May 2, 2008. The plume of ash and steam rose 10.7 to 16.8 kilometers (35,000 to 55,000 feet) into the atmosphere, reported the Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program. According to news reports issued by the AFP news service, […]
Hundreds of thousands of people were reported to be homeless Monday and food and water were running short in parts of Myanmar in the wake of the devastating cyclone that smashed urban buildings and obliterated villages two days earlier. This first decade of our new century is a mess: Global Warming with climate change, War […]
Is Horse Racing Breeding Itself to Death? The camera cut away from her, but it should have stayed on her. Eight Belles had run herself half to death yesterday, and now the vets were finishing the job as she lay on her side, her beautiful figure a black hump on the track. Horses don’t just […]
DC Madam Found Dead in Florida Police were called to the home of DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s mother on Thursday to investigate her apparent suicide. Police have confirmed that the dead person is Palfrey who was 52. Palfrey was dubbed "The DC Madam" by the national media after her arrest for allegedly running an […]
Jeremiah Wright just got through speaking at the National Press Club [watch it here]. I don’t know if it’s going to help Obama or hurt him. But it helped me. In the South, the black church is the best of things. It has always been a refuge for our Afro-Americans throughout our troubled history. It […]