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Dallas Morning News - Dallas Morning News (subscription) - Sep 26, 2006
accused of blocking warming report
Document suggests link to stronger hurricanes, journal says
11:00 PM CDT on Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Associated Press
WASHINGTON – The Bush administration has blocked the release of a report that suggests global warming is contributing to the frequency and strength of hurricanes, the journal Nature reported Tuesday. The possibility that warming conditions may cause storms to become stronger has generated debate among climate and weather experts, particularly in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. In the new case, Nature said weather experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – part of the Commerce Department – in February set up a seven-member panel to prepare a consensus report on the views of agency scientists about global warming and hurricanes. According to Nature, a draft of the statement said that warming may be having an effect. In May, when the report was expected to be released, panel chairman Ants Leetmaa received an e-mail from a Commerce official saying the report needed to be made less technical and was not to be released, Nature reported. Leetmaa, head of NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in New Jersey, did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment… The possibility that warming conditions may cause storms to become stronger has generated debate among climate and weather experts, particularly in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. In the new case, Nature said weather experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – part of the Commerce Department – in February set up a seven-member panel to prepare a consensus report on the views of agency scientists about global warming and hurricanes. According to Nature, a draft of the statement said that warming may be having an effect. In May, when the report was expected to be released, panel chairman Ants Leetmaa received an e-mail from a Commerce official saying the report needed to be made less technical and was not to be released, Nature reported. Leetmaa, head of NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in New Jersey, did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment. The report drew a prompt response from Sen.
The Truth Behind the Spinach Scare: Cheap Beef
LiveScience.com - Sep 26, 2006
Every state in the union can grow spinach. In fact, spinach is largely a cool-weather spring and fall crop. Why is California growing all of our spinach?
At work are the perverse forces of economic markets, not the forces of nature. food production system has been fined-tuned to maximize profits for a small group of farmers, often corporations, holding vast acres of land. Spinach from small, local farms could very well be contaminated with E.
Teenage Alcohol And Drug Use: At Best, Parents Know About It Only…
Medical News Today - Sep 26, 2006
The answer? Not much. Results are published in the October issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. “‘Externalizing’ disorders such as ADHD and ODD have behaviors associated with them that are obvious and affect others,” explained Laura Jean Bierut, associate professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine. “For example, a child who cannot sit still or focus on his or her work at school and is disruptive in the classroom, or a child who argues with his or her parents or refuses to do the things that they ask. However, the symptoms associated with ‘internalizing’ disorders such as depression can be much more subtle and not as easily recognized. Things like feelings of worthlessness or loss of interest in favorite activities can be very troubling to a child, but they don’t necessarily impact others and might go unnoticed unless the child chooses to talk about them. ” Bierut is also the corresponding author for the study… Our conclusion is that parents do not provide valuable information about their children’s use of alcohol and drugs because they simply don’t know about it. ” She added that researchers may want to reconsider using time and resources to question parents at all when it comes to issues of adolescent substance use, abuse or dependence. The take-home message, said Bierut, is two-part in nature: research clearly indicates that teens are using alcohol and drugs. “Parents who were surveyed, however, were largely unaware of this. Although as parents we might like to think that our children are not reflected in these percentages, it is important to realize that our kids do have access to substances and might very well be using them. —————————-Article adapted by Medical News Today from original press release. —————————-Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research (ACER) is the official journal of the Research Society on Alcoholism and the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism.
The gene screen
CNNMoney.com - Sep 26, 2006
5 billion annually. And with the advent of tests that will help tailor medication to an individual’s genetic profile–a field called pharmacogenetics–the market is poised to take off. "One-size-fits-all medicine will soon be pass
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