News From Respected Sources

• 'Jailbreak' bacteria can trigger heart disease 2010/09/06
  Plaque-causing bacteria can jailbreak from the mouth into the bloodstream and increase your risk of heart attack says a scientist at the Society for General Microbiology's autumn meeting in Nottingham. read more […]
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• Backstabbing bacteria: A new treatment for infection? 2010/09/06
  Selfish bacterial cells that act in their own interests and do not cooperate with their infection-causing colleagues can actually reduce the severity of infection. read more […]
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• Fears of a decline in bee pollination confirmed 2010/09/06
  Widespread reports of a decline in the population of bees and other flower-visiting animals have aroused fear and speculation that pollination is also likely on the decline. A recent University of Toronto study provides the first long-term evidence of a downward trend in pollination, while also pointing to climate change as a possible contributor. read more […]
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• The Un-Ouch: Enthusiastic Review of Alexander Tsesis’s We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law 2010/09/06
  Today, my co-blogger Gerard flagged an “Ouch” review of Laura Kalman’s new book.  This brought to mind a deservedly glowing review of Alexander Tsesis’s We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law.  Tsesis’s book traces the history of legal efforts to achieve civil rights for all Americans, beginning with the years leading up to the Revolution t […]
  Danielle Citron
• Assorted links 2010/09/05
  1. Time waster, but it made me giggle. 2. Do ethicists treat their parents better? 3. Cleaning tips from an expert. 4. The culture that is Russian fiscal policy. 5. Chimps outwit human hunters. […]
  Tyler Cowen
• Netanyahu seeks 'new solutions' to Palestinian conflict (AFP) 2010/09/05
  AFP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that creative thinking was needed to end the decades-old conflict with the Palestinians. […]
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• Droneslaughter & the War-Tech Treadmill 2010/09/05
  There’s a provocative piece in Slate on the increasing turn to drone warfare: Drones mean you don’t need to win hearts and minds if you’re allowed to blow away the bodies of “the enemy” without risking U.S. lives. But at what cost? Few of us have wanted to scrutinize too carefully a program that holds out the tempting promise of “victory” and thus the withdr […]
  Frank Pasquale
• Israeli police fail to protect Palestinians: rights group (AFP) 2010/09/05
  AFP - An Israeli rights group on Sunday accused Jerusalem police of failing to protect Palestinians in annexed east Jerusalem from hardline settlers residing in neighbourhoods heavily populated with Arabs. […]
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• Israel: Now, More than Ever, Fascinated By Netanyahu (Time.com) 2010/09/05
  Time.com - No one really thinks much will come out of the direct talks with the Palestinians but, when the issue is Bibi, up come visions of Gorbachev -- and Nixon in China […]
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• US officials: Mideast talks to resume in Jerusalem (AP) 2010/09/05
  AP - Israeli and Palestinian leaders plan talks with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Jerusalem this month. The setting is a symbolic move to show the seriousness of peace negotiations. […]
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• Clinton to attend Mideast peace talks in Sharm el-Sheikh (AFP) 2010/09/05
  AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend a second round of peace talks between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders later this month in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, a State Department official said Sunday. […]
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• MIT researchers create new self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself 2010/09/05
  Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably day after day, year after year. Now some MIT scientists have succeeded in mimicking a key aspect of that process. read more […]
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• 'Slow light' on a chip holds promise for optical communications 2010/09/05
  A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200 in a study reported in Nature Photonics (published online September 5 and in the November print issue). read more […]
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• DNA fingerprinting pioneer discovers role of key genetic catalyst for human diversity 2010/09/05
  One of the key drivers of human evolution and diversity, accounting for changes that occur between different generations of people, is explained by new research published today (Sept 5) by world-renowned scientist Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, who discovered DNA fingerprinting at the University of Leicester. read more […]
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• Biologists find way to reduce stem cell loss during cancer treatment 2010/09/05
  Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a gene critical for programmed cell death is also important in the loss of adult stem cells, a finding that could help to improve the health and well-being of patients undergoing cancer treatment. read more […]
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