Via Bainbridge, quoting Marc Hodak: Mary Jo White, former United States Attorney, is bringing a strong prosecutorial agenda.\u00a0This shift in priorities appears to have manifested itself in a new\u00a0Rule List\u00a0that, at least for now, drops the push for disclosure of corporate political contributions.\u00a0The pro-regulatory crowd is not going to be happy. … Corporate political spending […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

More nanotechnology promises: Scientists have learned over the years that the\u00a0cells\u00a0in cancerous tumors are more sensitive to heat than\u00a0normal cells\u00a0in the body (it makes them more porous). To take advantage of this property, researchers have developed techniques for heating such cells before applying other techniques meant to kill them\u2014heating tumors before using chemo or radiotherapy […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

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The Siege: 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark\u00a0gets a favorable review at Lawfare. The Siege\u00a0discloses a new intriguing wrinkle about Headley.\u00a0 The two British authors\u2019 investigations in Pakistan, India and the US led them to believe LeT and the ISI became suspicious that Headley was a double agent, secretly […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

LA used to look like this: They’re still there, often hidden under a building or a decorative shell, but there are some down near the airport, if I recall. \u00a0I do remember a season of 24\u00a0opening with Jack working at one of today’s oil pumps.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

So say Motorola and 3D Systems: Last month, Motorola announced a plan for a modular smartphone.\u00a0Project Ara, the company said, will be a simple way for users to individualize their phones, swapping out parts like the battery and camera until users have\u00a0a phone that’s\u00a0just for them. How do they plan on doing that? With 3-D […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

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Detroit finally gets a break: Rhodes \u2014 in a surprise decision this morning \u2014 also said he\u2019ll\u00a0allow pension cuts in Detroit’s bankruptcy. Rhodes emphasized that he won\u2019t necessarily agree to pension cuts in the city\u2019s final reorganization plan unless the entire plan is fair and equitable. Illinois is considering its own pension reform plan, and […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

There’s a reason that religious liberty was specifically written into the 1st Amendment. If we seek evidence of the broadly shared\u00a0public\u00a0view of the meaning of the Establishment Clause at the time of the Founding, we find not an insistence on strict separation of church and state but instead a largely uncontroversial willingness to see the […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Reason things out from “first principles” rather than by analogy: The benefit of \u201cfirst principles\u201d thinking? It allows you to innovate in clear leaps, rather than building small improvements onto something that already exists. Musk gives an example of the first automobile. While everyone else was trying to improve horse-drawn carriages, someone looked at the […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Hope from, of all places, the youth of Britain: Sixteen to 24-year-olds are known as the super-connected generation, obsessed with snapping\u00a0selfies\u00a0or downloading the latest mobile apps, so it comes as a surprise to learn that 62% prefer print books to\u00a0ebooks…. The top-rated reasons for preferring physical to digital products were: “I like to hold the […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

One hundred years to the day before the completion of the Capitol Dome, the current building of the recipient of Washington’s famous letter was dedicated. Documents associated with the letter are much sought after by collectors today, not least because contemporary printings of Washington\u2019s letter in Rhode Island newspapers, the Newport Mercury and the Providence […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Along with everyone else: So almost everywhere in Europe, people are living longer but having fewer years of healthy life. Only in the UK, Denmark and the Netherlands did people buck this trend with the numbers of years of healthy life increasing in these places since 2003. That raises an obvious question: what happened in […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n