Sorry, Mr. President. Please surrender your BlackBerry. Jeff Zeleny, Lose the BlackBerry? Yes He Can, Maybe In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official record and ultimately up for public review, and the threat of subpoenas. A decision has not been made on whether he could become the first e-mailing president, but aides said that seemed doubtful. It makes sense, but it still ...

I started this blog to record my thoughts as a scientist. And while the next several posts have nothing directly to do with scientific research, they are about the experiences of somebody who has struggled to become a scientist — namely, myself. There are plenty of blogs already where scientists write about their research or scientific ideas, or give expression to their social, political, or philosophical views. But I haven’t really run across too many ...

Felipe Calderón cerró ayer la primera parte de su proceso personal de construcción de un insospechado paladín (luego vendrán las nomenclaturas viales, las denominaciones inmobiliarias y las rotondas electorales ilustres). Emocionalmente perturbado, con un discurso de pasiones políticas que llegó al extremo de calificar de “heroísmo” el trabajo del joven amigo muerto, el ocupante formal de la Presidencia de la República llevó la exageración de sus alabanzas al extremo de revelar virtualmente que durante dos ...

[Source: Mascalzone Latino] Reale Yacht Club Canottieri Savoia (R.Y.C.C.S.) and Mascalzone Latino accepted the invitation by America's Cup Management to participate to the November 11th 2008 meeting at Société Nautique de Genève (S.N.G.) in Geneva.At the meeting the team representatives were requested to sign a non-disclosure agreement in order to keep the discussion strictly confidential among only the participants. Mascalzone Latino's representative to the meeting, Alessandra Pandarese, expressed the team's firm view that in the ...

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This paper examines the variation in admixture proportions across the genome at 284 microsatellite markers among 392 Mexican Americans. They find increased European ancestry on a region of chromosome 1, and decreased African ancestry on Chromosomes 2 and 9 (see figure on right: "Genome-wide distribution of African (bottom line), European (top line) and Native American (middle line) ancestry. The dashed vertical lines correspond to chromosome boundaries. Chromosomes are listed in numerical order from 1 to ...

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds We've all been waiting patiently for Windows Mobile 7 to drop since the crust of the Earth was still cooling, and at this point, Windows 7 proper could theoretically beat it out of the gate. What's a perpetually delayed platform to do, then? Come up with another stop-gap measure, of course. Windows Mobile 6.1 was designed to plug some short-term holes in 6, and it's looking now like there could be ...