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Source: xml.news.aol.com --- 5 days ago
Gov. Sarah Palin cites vigilance against Russian warplanes coming into U.S. airspace over Alaska as one of her foreign policy credentials. But the U.S. military command in charge says that hasn't happened in her 21 months in office. ...

Source: www.bbc.co.uk --- 5 days ago
Until this week many on the European continent thought they might just get a bit of spray on their faces from the financial tsunami that is sweeping through the UK and US economies. Indeed there was a fair deal of sniffiness about the downside of "Anglo-Saxon" economics. Although Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy might be a lot friendlier towards transatlantic capitalism than some previous French and German leaders, they are still extremely critical of unfettered capitalism. Now banks in Ireland, Belgium and Germany are all in trouble and the governments concerned are all determined to step in. The European Commission is looking at whether their rules against state aid are being broken by the hugely expensive Irish rescue plan, the shoring up of Fortis Bank by the governments of Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands, a similar measure in Germany, as well as the British government's plan for Bradford and Bingley. The commission is stressing that it is not about to suspend its rules and that they are "part of the solution, rather than part of the problem". The reasoning is that they help a quick bail-out and subsequent restructuring. It would be interesting to know how the commission would rule on the proposed and rejected US measures - criticised by some Republicans as "socialism" - if it were a member country. It is now clear that next month's summit of the EU prime ministers and presidents will be dominated by the crisis ...

Source: www.nytimes.com --- 4 days ago
Legal authorities say that American Indian reservations in New York State are to blame for the millions of bootleg cigarettes sold on the streets. ...

Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov --- 3 days ago
Related Articles Calorimetric scrutiny of lipid binding by sticholysin II toxin mutants. J Mol Biol. 2008 Oct 17;382(4):920-30 Authors: Alegre-Cebollada J, Cunietti M, Herrero-Galán E, Gavilanes JG, Martínez-del-Pozo A The mechanisms by which pore-forming toxins are able to insert into lipid membranes are a subject of the highest interest in the field of lipid-protein interaction. Eight mutants affecting different regions of sticholysin II, a member of the pore-forming actinoporin family, have been produced, and their hemolytic and lipid-binding properties were compared to those of the wild-type protein. A thermodynamic approach to the mechanism of pore formation is also presented. Isothermal titration calorimetry experiments show that pore formation by sticholysin II is an enthalpy-driven process that occurs with a high affinity constant (1.7x10(8) M(-1)). Results suggest that conformational flexibility at the N-terminus of the protein does not provide higher affinity for the membrane, although it is necessary for correct pore formation. Membrane binding is achieved through two separate mechanisms, that is, recognition of the lipid-water interface by a cluster of aromatic residues and additional specific interactions that include a phosphocholine-binding site. Thermodynamic parameters derived from titration experiments are discussed in terms of a putative model for pore formation. PMID: 18687335 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] ...

Source: politics.slashdot.org --- 2 days ago
The New York Times has an interesting tool for reviewing the debate. Alongside the actual video, there is a transcription (which you can click on to go to that section of the video), a search tool (that counts the number of usages by each candidate), a topic segmentation view, and even a fact checker that links to corrections. Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 1 day ago
Oracle's annual OpenWorld show is usually a showcase for its enterprise software. ...

Source: blogs.news.com.au --- 5 days ago
Tara Anglican School for Girls and the elite Catholic school, St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill are refusing to disclose how they qualified for hundreds of… ...

Source: online.wsj.com --- 4 days ago
Congress is probing payments by Medtronic to spine doctors working on a bone-graft product, which has been linked to life-threatening complications. ...

Source: football.uk.reuters.com --- 5 days ago
MILAN, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho's fixation with playing three up front will come under further scrutiny at home to Werder Bremen on Wednesday following Sunday's 1-0 defeat by AC Milan. ...

Source: blogs.wsj.com --- 16 hours ago
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Source: voices.washingtonpost.com --- 3 days ago
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), greets supporters at the conclusion of a women's town hall style campaign event in Denver, Oct. 2, 2008. (Gerald Herbert/Associated Press) By Dan Balz ST. LOUIS -- Thanks to Sarah Palin's performance, Thursday's vice presidential debate likely shifted the political focus back to John McCain and Barack Obama. That's good and bad news for McCain. Good news, because it means that his running mate will not be a major distraction, an object of ridicule and a potential drag on the ticket -- assuming no more faltering press interviews or other mistakes. She certainly exceeded expectations Thursday and reminded Republicans why they were so taken by her when McCain selected her. Bad news, because the focus returns to McCain at a moment when his own performance has been called into question. The weak economy fixes voters' attention on issues that play to Democrats' strengths and the movement ...

Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 3 days ago
John Harris: For all the talk of change a Tory government might deliver, the consistency of their message stands little scrutiny ...

Source: www.usatoday.com --- 4 days ago
A federal judge has rejected attempts by the Bush administration to shield records that may shed light on the visits by now imprisoned ... ...

Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 3 days ago
Even if the Department of Justice says Google's search ad pact with Yahoo clears its antitrust hurdles, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin), chair of the antitrust subcommittee, says that it will still require close monitoring to ensure it doesn't threaten the online ad industry, Reuters reported. ...

Source: news.google.ie --- 1 day ago
Smaller hospitals come under scrutiny Sunday Business Post - 17 hours ago Mary Harney will use a review of procedures at Ennis General Hospital to highlight Ireland’s smaller hospitals. As the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) this weekend begins its independent review of procedures at Ennis General Hospital, ... Cancer victims' families put faith in probe Irish Independent Ennis hospital chiefs in safety audit Irish Times Herald.ie all 4 news articles ...

Source: www.reportonbusiness.com --- 4 days ago
Regulators south of the border have granted banks and other companies more flexibility in applying controversial accounting rules that are being blamed for exacerbating the market crisis ...

Source: www.ft.com --- 3 days ago
Malayan Banking's bosses can expect to come under scrutiny for completing its purchase of Bank Internasional Indonesia (BII) despite securing a discount on the price agreed six months ago ...

Source: www.npr.org --- 4 days ago
When Republican presidential candidate John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, hardly anyone -– outside of Alaska -– knew who she was. Now, a little more than a month later, she's become the most talked about woman in America, and her critics claim she's simply not qualified for the job. A roundtable of analysts discuss the embattled candidacy of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. ...

Source: www.nzherald.co.nz --- 22 hours ago
Cabinet will today discuss whether Contact Energy is abusing a position of market dominance by introducing 'unjustified' price increases, Prime Minister Helen Clark says. The power retailer announced on September 30 it would increase... ...

Source: news.zdnet.co.uk --- 5 hours ago
The search-ad deal was set to go into effect shortly, but the companies have postponed it to give antitrust investigators more time ...