| Secretary Chertoff at Stanford Constitutional Law Conference
Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center's Germ Warfare, Contagious Disease and the Constitution Conference Release Date: April 11, 2008 Washington, DC Stanford Constitutional Law Center Germ Warfare, Contagious Disease and the Constitution Conference Secretary Chertoff: Thank you very much for inviting me to address you, and I want to thank Dean Sullivan for hosting the conference and for bringing me here. And also, I see a lot of friends in the crowd. I do have to say, I realized as I walked out here that I hit the trifecta today. I started out speaking at Yale Law School on Monday, I spoke at Georgetown Law School yesterday and today I'm speaking at Stanford Law School. The only law school I'm not speaking at is my own law school.
Candela Continues Scientific Leadership in Aesthetic Device Field With 18 Industry-Leading Abstracts at ASLMS
Candela Corporation (NASDAQ:CLZR), a global leader in aesthetic laser solutions, announced today that its technology was discussed by the world's leading laser experts in 18 presentations during the 28th Annual Conference of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, held April 2-6 in Kissimmee, Florida. .
US aims to grow ears, skin in 5 years
WASHINGTON: Teams of university scientists backed by US government funds hope to grow new skin, ears, muscles and other body tissue for troops injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US defense department said on Thursday.
The $250 million effort aims to address the Pentagon's unprecedented challenge of caring for troops returning from the war zones with multiple traumatic injuries.
"We've had just over 900 people, men, some women with amputations of some kind or another since the start of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq," said Ward Casscells, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. Many have also suffered burns, spinal cord injuries and vision loss.
"Getting these people up to where they are functioning and reintegrated, employed, able to help their families and be fully participating members of society, this is our task," he said.
Apple Air laptop's shortcomings are easy to forgive
The one-month loan is nearly over, and I'll soon have to pack up a borrowed MacBook Air laptop and ship it back to Apple Inc. It will hurt. Apple's vaunted ultrathin computer is the most attractive laptop ever. Not the best, though. The Air's elegant form sacrifices a lot of functions found on even the cheapest laptops, not to mention its closest, thinnest rival, the ThinkPad X300 from Chinese laptop maker Lenovo. Instead, Apple offers gleaming aluminum, and assurances that nobody will mind the missing features. And for the most part, I didn't. Both of these impressive machines underscore the surging demand for laptops. Many of us now use them as our primary computers, instead of big, bulky desktop machines. The market research firm IDC Corp. says 34 percent of all personal computers sold in the United States in 2005 were laptops.
Cardium's Innercool Therapies Unit Announces Publication Of Positive Effects Of Early And Rapid Hypothermia Following ...
Cardium Therapeutics (Amex: CXM) and its operating unit InnerCool Therapies announced that positive findings from a preclinical study, demonstrating a new and expanded benefit of early rapid hyperthermia (cooling) for the potential treatment of acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), has been published online by BioMed Central (BMC) Cardiovascular Disorders (2008, 8:7, April 10, 2008).
The study, conducted by a team of interventional cardiologists at the Lund University Hospital, Sweden, evaluated the effect of early and rapid cooling induced by a combination of cold saline infusion along with InnerCool's endovascular Celsius Control(TM) System, before or immediately after reperfusion when coronary blood flow was restored in the heart in a porcine heart attack model. Results from this study demonstrated that rapid cooling (to Rapid & Early Cooling Heart Attack Preclinical Study Results
This study was designed to further investigate the therapeutic potential of early and rapid hypothermia to preserve heart tissue following a heart attack.
SHOP.COM's New Fixed-Rate Cost-Per-Click Platform Applauded by Merchant Community
SHOP.COM, the destination comparison shopping engine designed for women, today announced the launch of 12 initial merchant partners into its first party cost-per-click (CPC) program, including Zappos, Drugstore.com and Beauty.com. The direct CPC program, which is a significant expansion of SHOP.COM's media platform that also leverages the multi-merchant features of its patented OneCart(R) technology, provides merchants with the ability to have product listings integrated into SHOP.COM's search engine, and gain access to millions of qualified and targeted shoppers each month. Merchants who join the direct CPC program pay a competitive fixed fee when shoppers click from SHOP.COM to the merchant's own site. .
Apogee Q4, Full-Year Earnings Increase Significantly; Outlook is for Growth to Continue in FY09
Apogee Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq:APOG) today announced fiscal 2008 fourth quarter and full-year earnings. Apogee provides distinctive value-added glass solutions for the architectural and picture framing industries. FY08 FULL YEAR HIGHLIGHTS -- Revenues were $881.8 million, an increase of 13 percent compared to the prior year. -- Earnings from continuing operations were a record $1.49 per share, up 33 percent from earnings of $1.12 per share a year ago. -- Operating margin was 7.5 percent, compared to 6.1 percent the prior year. -- Architectural segment revenues were up 15 percent, and operating income grew 33 percent compared to the prior year. -- Operating margin was 6.7 percent, up from 5.8 percent the prior year. -- Large-scale optical segment revenues were flat as expected, and operating income increased 51 percent versus the prior year.
Beauty's only skin-deep -- so's sex appeal
Q: In a recent column, you validated a woman's desire to lose weight solely to meet her husband's needs. Your encouraging her to take off pounds and get plastic surgery for him is an insult to yourself and every woman who reads your disgraceful article. I disagree with your notion that males care more about looks. I'm a heterosexual woman (19 "... am I a woman yet?), and my dates' looks are extremely important to me. For a few extra pounds to prevent a man from seeing why he fell in love with his wife is barbaric. If you're really in love, you transcend the external. If this woman can find it within herself to love the stuff she's made of, she'll attract attention she never thought imaginable — the sort only unconditional self-acceptance brings. — Appalled A: If a woman's sex appeal sprang from inner beauty, Eleanor Roosevelt, who looked like a scone in a housedress, would've been Playboy's hottest selling cover girl of all time.
Tri-C JazzFest pays tribute to Frank Sinatra
With the 29th annual Tri-C JazzFest in full swing, Ol' Blue Eyes lives! Singer-guitarist John Pizzarelli will be joined by the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra for a Sinatra tribute concert Friday, April 18, at Playhouse Square's Allen Theatre, part of the 29th annual Tri-C JazzFest. Latter-day crooner Michael Buble isn't part of the Tri-C JazzFest's salute to Frank Sinatra, although you would be hard-pressed to find a more fervent Sinatra devotee, as you'll see in our Q&A with Buble. For more on JazzFest - including upcoming gigs by Natalie Cole and Joshua Redman - check out our complete schedule.
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