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Party: Republican.
Age: 52.
Born: Aug. 24, 1955, in Hope, Ark.
Resides: North Little Rock, Ark.
Education: Bachelor's degree, Ouachita Baptist University, 1975. Master's degree, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1980.
Work history: Advertising director for Focus, 1976-80. Baptist minister, 1980-92. President of ACTS-TV, 1983-86. President of KBSC-TV, 1987-92. President of Cambridge Communications, 1992-96.
Political history: Elected Arkansas lieutenant governor, 1993-96. Appointed governor in 1996 when Gov. Jim Guy Tucker convicted of fraud and resigns. Elected to four-year terms in 1998 and 2002.
Religion: Baptist.
Books written: "Character is the Issue," "Kids Who Kill," "Living Beyond Your Lifetime," "Quit Digging Your Grave With A Knife and Fork," "From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 STOPS to Restoring America's Greatness." .
Courting Black voters
And we need to be fed,'' she said. The former first lady has tried to remain above the fray most of the week after an unusually rancorous debate Monday in which she and Obama traded barbs. She has criticized President Bush on the stump and rarely mentioned her top rival, leaving Bill Clinton to challenge the Illinois senator more directly. But she has gotten in her digs occasionally. Friday's came as she praised Rangel while implicitly criticizing Obama for being overeager. ''He serves as chair of the most important committee in the United States Congress,'' Clinton said of Rangel. ''He didn't get there by leapfrogging. He got there by lots of hard work.'' While she was courting black voters, Bill Clinton was pitching her candidacy to a crowd of about 200 people Friday in Spartanburg.
Alnylam Reports Positive Phase II Data For ALN-RSV01, An RNAi ...
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, reported positive data for the ALN-RSV01 Phase II experimental infection study, now called "GEMINI." The GEMINI study was designed to evaluate the safety and anti-viral activity of ALN-RSV01, an RNAi therapeutic for the treatment of RSV infection. Top-line results show that ALN-RSV01 was safe and well tolerated and demonstrated statistically significant anti-viral activity. The complete results of the study will be presented at the International Symposium on Respiratory Viral Infections meeting, to be held February 28 - March 2, 2008 in Singapore.
"We are very pleased with the results of GEMINI and look forward to advancing this program to its next stage of development, a Phase II study in naturally infected adult patients which we expect to initiate in the first half of this year," said John Maraganore, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Alnylam.
When 17th-century women would seek out hare spittle
Despite the wonders of modern medicine, seeking treatment for infertility can still be a heartbreaking experience. But spare a thought for British women living in the 17th century. Anyone having difficulty conceiving all those centuries ago might have come across one William Sermon, a notorious physician whose 1671 book recommended a bizarre array of cures for infertility, such as drinking wine mixed with hare spittle or mouse ear. A copy of his book, The Ladies Companion, Or The English Midwife, has been unearthed in a Surrey attic and is expected to fetch up 2,000 when Sotheby's auctions it next month. Sermon (c1629-1680) is said to have decided to study medicine after witnessing a woman giving birth alone in a wood while he was out hare-shooting which may explain why hares feature so prominently in his cures.
Malaria Parasite In Patient Blood Reveals Distinct Physiological ...
The malaria parasite has been studied for decades, but surprisingly, little is known about how it behaves in humans to cause disease. In a groundbreaking study published November 28 in the advance online edition of Nature, an international research team has for the first time measured which of the parasite's genes are turned on or off during actual infection in humans, not in cell cultures, unearthing surprising behaviors and opening a window on the most critical aspects of parasite biology.
That insight springs from the genomic analysis of parasites in their natural state, derived directly from patients residing in Senegal, and also from the researchers' use of innovative computational approaches to interpret their results. These computational methods helped to identify three distinct biological states of the malaria parasite: an active growth-based state, a starvation response and an environmental stress response, presumably related to the body's inflammatory response to the parasite.
Education notes
SMU receives $5 million gift: Dallas business leader Edwin L. Cox has donated $5 million to support merit-based undergraduate scholarships in the school that bears his name – the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. The gift will serve as a challenge grant to stimulate additional contributions toward a $10 million endowment fund for the Cox School's B.B.A. Scholars Program. .
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