[Attorney General Ellen] Rosenblum announced the unprecedented criminal investigation nearly two hours after Kitzhaber released a letter he sent asking her to open a "full and independent factual review." […] The governor's request reversed a stance he had held for months, saying a review under way by the Oregon Government Ethics Commission was sufficient. Calls for a more rigorous investigation increased, however, after recent questions about whether Hayes reported $118,000 in payments on tax returns, and after Kitzhaber deflected questions at a contentious Jan. 30 news conference.
The governor's request reversed a stance he had held for months, saying a review under way by the Oregon Government Ethics Commission was sufficient. Calls for a more rigorous investigation increased, however, after recent questions about whether Hayes reported $118,000 in payments on tax returns, and after Kitzhaber deflected questions at a contentious Jan. 30 news conference.
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“Disgraced former International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a French court Tuesday that he was unaware that women who participated in orgies at luxury hotels in Paris and Washington D.C. were prostitutes,” the AP reports. “65-year-old Strauss-Kahn and 13 co-defendants are on trial in this northern French city, accused of aggravated pimping in connection with a sex ring centered on the Hotel Carlton in Lille… Strauss-Kahn’s chances of becoming French president were ruined over an unrelated sex scandal in New York.”
“65-year-old Strauss-Kahn and 13 co-defendants are on trial in this northern French city, accused of aggravated pimping in connection with a sex ring centered on the Hotel Carlton in Lille… Strauss-Kahn’s chances of becoming French president were ruined over an unrelated sex scandal in New York.”
A new study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finds that drivers who use marijuana are at a significantly lower risk for a crash than drivers who use alcohol. And after adjusting for age, gender, race and alcohol use, drivers who tested positive for marijuana were no more likely to crash than who had not used any drugs or alcohol prior to driving. […] The study's findings underscore an important point: that the measurable presence of THC (marijuana's primary active ingredient) in a person's system doesn't correlate with impairment in the same way that blood alcohol concentration does. The NHTSA doesn't mince words: "At the current time, specific drug concentration levels cannot be reliably equated with a specific degree of driver impairment."
The study's findings underscore an important point: that the measurable presence of THC (marijuana's primary active ingredient) in a person's system doesn't correlate with impairment in the same way that blood alcohol concentration does. The NHTSA doesn't mince words: "At the current time, specific drug concentration levels cannot be reliably equated with a specific degree of driver impairment."
There are still some questions about his reporting of Katrina that need to be answered—What of his claims that gangs were running through his hotel or that he saw a person take their own life in the SuperDome? But his claim of seeing a body float by his hotel room may be true, and it is only fair to acknowledge that.
Woods Hole’s Marine Biological Laboratory reported last week that scientists have unlocked the secret behind Elysia chlorotica, the brilliant green sea slug that looks like a leaf, eats sunlight like a leaf, but is, in fact, an animal. Turns out E. chlorotica maintains its vivid hue by consuming algae and pirating their photosynthesis genes. It’s the only known instance of a multicellular organism co-opting DNA from another. “There is no way on Earth that genes from an algae should work inside an animal cell,” study co-author Sidney K. Pierce, an emeritus professor at University of South Florida, said in a statement. “And yet here, they do. They allow the animal to rely on sunshine for its nutrition.” If humans wanted to hack our own cells to do photosynthesis, researchers say, we might use a similar mechanism.
“There is no way on Earth that genes from an algae should work inside an animal cell,” study co-author Sidney K. Pierce, an emeritus professor at University of South Florida, said in a statement. “And yet here, they do. They allow the animal to rely on sunshine for its nutrition.” If humans wanted to hack our own cells to do photosynthesis, researchers say, we might use a similar mechanism.