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Judge Returns Records to Rush Limbaugh:
In an apparent legal victory for top talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, Florida Circuit Judge Thomas Barkdull has returned most of his medical records to his attorney, Roy Black – thereby denying prosecutors “free rein” over Limbaugh’s medical file.
Ernest Lehman’s “résumé included Oscar nominations for endangering Grant in North by Northwest, matching up Hepburn and Bogart in Sabrina, engaging street gangs in West Side Story and heaping on the domestic turmoil in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Lehman’s film credits include:
This is a great idea. It will make things so much easier for the nominee, who will be answering tough questions. By giving the nominee personal introductions to Senators, it will make it easier for the nominee to be confirmed. All presidents should do this when nominating anyone for any position that has to be confirmed by the Senate.
ClickStar is being formed by Intel and actor Morgan Freeman:
SUN VALLEY, Idaho – Actor Morgan Freeman and chipmaking giant Intel Corp. are teaming up on a new venture to distribute premium movies to consumers over the Internet before the films become available on DVD.
...Intel is investing an unspecified amount of money in the new venture. Called ClickStar Inc., it was formed by Revelations Entertainment, a company Freeman created in 1996 with producer Lori McCreary.
...”We’re going to bypass what the music industry had to come up with, and that’s to get ahead of the whole piracy thing,” Freeman told reporters at Sun Valley after making his presentation, which was closed to the press
As noted, the plan is for the movies to be released by ClickStar, before they’re even available on DVD. I wonder if their copy protection will permit us to burn them to a DVD and watch them on a TV that’s not networked to our computers?
Jordan Arrests Mentor Of Qaeda’s Zarqawi.
WILD SCIENCE STORY OF THE DAY: SCIENTISTS MOVE CLOSER TO REPAIRING DNA:
At the heart of the breakthrough is the concept of “if it’s broke, break it some more.” Cells have a method of DNA repair called homologous recombination, which fixes breaks in the double helix of our chromosomes. But the process only repairs places where the DNA has been cut, not where genes have been miscoded.
Using a package of synthesized zinc fingers, cells can be tricked into doing nano-surgery on their own genes, Sangamo researchers found. The zinc fingers home in like a guided missile on the exact spot in the genome doctors are trying to target and then bind to it. DNA-devouring enzymes then cut through the double helix of DNA at the exact beginning and end of the targeted gene, and a template of donor DNA helps rebuild the deleted strand.
And this is a day after we flew that spacecraft into a comet 83 million miles from Earth. These impressive scientific advances appear to be arriving with increasing frequency.
