SANTA MONICA, California AFP — Australian icon Cate Blanchett paid tribute to Heath Ledger here Saturday after scooping a top prize at the prestigious Independent Spirit Awards. A heavily pregnant Blanchett, who is tipped to win a second Oscar in three years at Sunday's 80th Academy Awards, was on...
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Twinstrand Therapeutics of Burnaby, BC, has won a $2.2 million, two-year American contract to develop an antidote to ricin poisoning. The contract is with a U.S. Department of Defense agency. A highly toxic protein derived from the widely available castor bean plant, ricin ranks high on...
The Idea in Brief Half of all acquiring companies pay more for target firms than they're worth. Often it's because of executives' mental biases: Their interest in a deal keeps them from being objective about its value....
Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: And Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom By Celia Rivenbark St. Martin's Press, 262 pp., $19.95 --- With all that Ya-Ya Sisterhood/Steel Magnolia/Sweet Potato Queen baggage, Southern dames clearly have cornered the market on feisty, feminine charm. And don't forget those alpha belles,...
Viktor & Rolf will launch their first men's scent, Antidote, in 150 Saks Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom doors in October. The pair calls the fragrance "an antidote to reality", hence the name. The scent is a rich, woody oriental with top notes of mint...
Quahogs are rugged mollusks indeed. Observing that the hard-shell clams survive the PCB-infused broth of the Acushnet River in south-eastern Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth biochemist Bal Ram Singh is now studying how the common New England shellfish also fights off botulism, a potential bioterror weapon.Inject a quahog with enough...
Byline: Lindsey Willhite Daily Herald Sports Writer Northwestern coach Bill Carmody doesn't know if Vedran Vukusic will play Wednesday against Iowa and won't say whether Michael Thompson will be on the floor. Playing without its top two scorers and rebounders can't be...
July 21, 2004 The President. Thank you all. Mr. Speaker. Please be seated. Thanks. Good morning, and welcome to the Rose Garden. On September the 11th, 2001, America saw the destruction and grief terrorists could inflict with commercial airlines turned into weapons of mass murder. Those attacks revealed...
The House has passed the Project Bioshield Act, which would give private firms $5.6 billion in incentives over 10 years to develop antidotes to chemical and biological agents. The Senate has already passed the bill, and President Bush says he will sign it. The incentives are...
WASHINGTON AFP ? Spurred by persistent terrorism warnings, the US Congress gave final approval to legislation that is expected to boost worldwide research into vaccines and other antidotes against biological agents and other weapons of mass destruction. By a vote of 414-2, the House of Representative signed off on...
The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 14--Shipments of antidotes that would counter chemical attacks have been expedited to Boston and New York to make sure both cities have the drugs before the start of national political conventions, federal and local...
The Senate has joined the House in passing legislation (S. 15) to allocate $5.6 billion over the next 10 years to Project Bioshield, the Bush administration's program to spur research, production and development of vaccines and antidotes for bioterror agents such as anthrax, botulism toxin, ebola,...
TV MEETS THE WEB-C2003 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - http://www.vandusseldorp.com/ A bill, offered as an antidote to the 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act, has been reintroduced on Capital Hill by US Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren. Dubbed the 'Balance Act', Lofgren's bill aims...
The BBC's trailers for its football coverage before the start of the new Premiership season were, in every sense of the word, pathetic. There's Football Focus with Ray Stubbs, they boasted. And there's Final Score too. As everyone's mum always used to put it, if you've nothing worthwhile to say,...
Desert Wisdom: Sayings from the Desert Fathers, translated and illustrated by Yushi Nomura, contains a treasure-trove of inspired advice from the Christian hermits of the fourth and fifth centuries. Nomura, a Japanese artist and theologian, studied these Egy tian ascetics while attending Yale Divinity School in 1978. Under the guidance...
The federal government's decision to provide extraordinary relief of about $24 million to BioPort Corp. was necessary to ensure financial capability for the Lansing, Mich.-based anthrax supplier. But what BioPort did with the cash was "not appropriate," according to a Department of Defense inspector general, or IG, report obtained by...
De Bary, Wm. Theodore Asian Values and Human Rights: A Confucian Communitarian Perspective Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 196 pp., $27.95, ISBN 0-674-04955-1 Publication Date: September 1998 This collection of lectures by Wm. Theodore De Bary (East-West Center, Honolulu, 1997), expanded for...
Taking their stylistic cues from the French modernist movement, designers Celeste Cooper and Donald Schermerhorn created an extremely appealing library heavy on refinement and sophistication. The delicate balance of discipline and lyricism that characterizes the best of high French modernism, says Cooper, makes the style a...
