| Dr. Katz weighs in on weight loss
Hardly two weeks into 2008, many students' New Year's resolutions to lose weight and get healthy are likely to begin fading with the advent of late-night cravings and busy shopping-period schedules. The News asked nationally recognized nutrition and weight-maintenance expert David Katz how students can establish and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Katz is a professor at the Yale School of Public Health and is the co-founder of the Yale Prevention Research Center — a clinical research laboratory — and founder and director of the Integrative Medicine Center — a facility in which conventionally trained and naturopathic physicians collaborate to provide unique patient care. He has authored 10 books and almost 100 scientific papers on nutrition and health. Many people make New Year's resolutions to lose weight, work out and become healthier, but most do not last through January.
McCain rides Crist wave
TAMPA --John McCain made the most of his highest-profile endorsement Saturday, when the presidential candidate hit up a cafe with Gov. Charlie Crist, one of the most popular politicians in Florida and the state's campaigner-in-chief. Meantime, Mitt Romney, who also sought Crist's support, announced that Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter, Liz Cheney, would serve as a top foreign policy advisor to him. Mike Huckabee went to church in Orlando and Rudy Giuliani wore a yarmulke at a Boca Raton synagogue. But the most attention was on McCain with Crist in tow. The two swept into the First Watch Caf' with McCain's wife and a substantial press entourage, sitting down briefly with a family with two small children. McCain bounced the little boy on his knee as he and Crist, who endorsed the Arizona senator Saturday night, chatted up the family for ten minutes before heading back outside.
Tankleff's lawyers show possible new evidence
It is the latest of several attempts that Tankleff, 32, has launched to free himself from a 50-years-to-life sentence for the murder conviction.
Jay Salpeter, a retired New York City detective and private investigator who was hired by Tankleff's family and whose investigation sparked the motion for a new trial, was the first to testify yesterday. He said that a few weeks ago he discovered the pipe on the property of Tankleffs' neighbors, Ruth and John Trager, who have lived there for more than 30 years.
He said he and another investigator found it near the Tragers' driveway when they scoured the grounds with a metal detector. "I said, 'This is the pipe,'" Salpeter recounted.
John Trager testified he has never seen the pipe before and that his grounds are largely untouched.
FSU scandal leaves fans in little mood to cheer
The Florida State Seminoles will play in the merrily monikered Music City Bowl today, but for many fans and boosters who follow the scandal-scarred program, it might seem more like a funeral dirge.
The Seminoles will be without 36 players in today's game against Kentucky, many of whom have been suspended as a result of the school's investigation into academic misconduct.
"It's a shame that something a few players have done has besmirched the reputation of our entire university," said Kevin Carmody, president of the Seminole Club of Greater Orlando.
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Targeted Gene Therapy Provides Relief For Chronic Pain, Study Shows
ScienceDaily (Jan. 24, 2008) Researchers in the Department of Medicine and Department of Neurosciences at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered that chronic pain can be successfully treated with novel targeted gene therapy. In an effort to find a more effective treatment for chronic pain, researchers at Mount Sinai developed a gene therapy technique that simulates the pain-killing effect of opiate drugs. In the new study researchers suggest that gene therapy for pain might in the future become a treatment alternative for patients with severe chronic pain. .
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She set out as she had done every Sunday afternoon for years. She locked her door, turned to the weather, and held the hand rail as she stepped carefully down from the porch. Once on the ground she adjusted her hat on her gray head. As this was a winter day in the Christmas season, a cold day, she also adjusted her coat. Had it been raining, she would have pulled a large lawn and leaf bag, as if it were a poncho, over her head and upper body. Most times she shouldered her hand bag. This day she also shouldered a bulging plastic shopping bag. She walked along the dirt road that would lead her to the paved road that would lead her to the highway. Her only company was her shadow, small and indistinct at her feet. She walked without the deliberate care of someone unfamiliar with the terrain, but neither was her gait quick.
Managing a Cross-Strait Crisis
Nowhere in the world is the danger of a major war more serious in its potential consequences than in the Taiwan Strait. Policymakers both here and in the region are interested in finding ways to avoid a military confrontation between the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). But should one begin, they will need to have available the tools to avoid a full-fledged conflagration. Naturally enough, security specialists have turned to the crisis management literature to devise strategies for addressing this latter problem. Are the literature and the strategies it has generated a good fit for the case of China and Taiwan--and, if not, what should be done to prepare for managing such a crisis? The Cold War provided both the backdrop and the moral imperative leading to the growth in
crisis management studies.
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