Here's one link that debunks a popular medical myth, one that makes drug companies rich nonetheless.  

The Cholesterol myth.

certainly, innocent until proven guilty and all, but it's hard to imagine he had no idea that the other guys he was with had guns, when he was recorded as saying "keep the m*therf*ckers in the room."

sounds like at least accessory to me.

The suit claims that Rather was made a scapegoat by CBS and Viacom for business interests after the September 2004 airing of the controversial "60 Minutes II" report on President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard.

Yeah, her.

Well, she just got a job.  Hired by Donald Trump to do modeling-type gigs.

Fee:  $25,000 a day or thereabouts.

I can write in complete sentences.  I have a college degree - in one of the hard science-type disciplines - from one of the top 50 colleges (per US News & World Report) in the US and an advanced degree.  I actually understand concepts and can work with them.  I can speak intelligible paragraphs extemporaneously.

You don't want to see my tax returns - I take them to my accountant because he's a friend and, by tax time, he needs the comic relief.

I know.  I'm neither 18, skinny, hot nor blonde.  And today, that's all that counts.

"There is now a growing danger that global investors will start to shun the US bond markets. The latest US government data on foreign holdings released this week show a collapse in purchases of US bonds from $97bn to just $19bn in July, with outright net sales of US Treasuries."

In an opinion by the NJ Supreme Court, they made clear that prior repeat offenses were not a bar to admission in the Drug Courts in that state.  

The defendant had an extensive drug - and criminal - history, viz.:

Defendant had four prior third-degree (felony) convictions:  in 2003 for bringing a stolen automobile into the State...  in 1999 for theft of an automobile... in 1998 for theft...  and in 1998 for receipt of stolen property.

That evaluation of the twenty five-year old defendant detailed a dissipated life of drug dependency and crimes committed while under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol. Defendant, who lives with his wife and two children, described an extensive history of daily drug abuse that included injecting heroin and cocaine, smoking marijuana, and taking large amounts of over-the-counter cold medications. He admitted to using marijuana at the age of eight, alcohol at the age of nine, hallucinogenic drugs at the age of twelve, amphetamines at the age of fifteen, and heroin and cocaine at the age of seventeen. He stated that he had overdosed on drugs three times, attempted suicide, and spent one-fifth of his life behind bars. He also had been previously treated in both inpatient and out-patient programs for his drug abuse without evident success. Substance Abuse Evaluator ... recommended that defendant "enter and complete a Long Term Residential treatment program and enter a Halfway House as part of a comprehensive aftercare program."

He gained admission to drug treatment rather than prison over the prosecution's objection.  It needs be noted that, in New Jersey, the state supreme Court has a lot of power (spelled e-x-c-l-u-s-i-v-e) over the composition of lower courts and, in this case, admission into Drug Court programs.  So, they were interpreting their own rules and made clear that their liberal admission policies ruled.

Nonetheless, they felt compelled to note the following as a further justification for their decision:

Additionally, the State realizes substantial cost-savings through drug court programs. The average cost per year to house an inmate in state prison is $34,218 compared to $17,266 to give that same offender the rehabilitative services of Drug Court, including six months of in-patient treatment. New Jersey Judiciary, Drug Courts: A Plan for Statewide Implementation
(Dec. 2000).

Greg Palast