According to this New York Times article [free registration], the pharmaceutical companies and NIH are shunning research for a cure for Type 1 diabetes. There’s no money in a cure using medicine with an expired patent. Dr Faustman (researcher/professor at Harvard Medical School) has cured type 1 diabetes in mice and has been approved for Phase 1 clinical trials in humans. The only problem is raising the money, which Lee Iacocca is helping with.
Archive for November, 2004
The Firefox developers please ask that you look at the following areas: site authentication (especially over SSL), extension installation via update.mozilla.org and other sites, MacOS X builds, and software update - “we’re making another attempt at this. We think we’ve got the bugs from RC1, so please test by following these instructions.”
New in this release:
- Saved Search Folders
Saved Search Folders display messages based on previously set search criteria. For example, instead of filtering messages into a new folder, you could create a Saved Search Folder that lists all the messages received from a certain person over the past 30 days, even if those messages are stored in different folders and subfolders. - Message Grouping
You can now group messages in a folder by attributes such as date, sender, priority or a custom label. For instance, a folder grouped by date will group messages from today, yesterday, last week, etc. into self-contained groups in the message list pane. (View > Sort By > Grouped By Sort)
The colour LCD screens on cellphones and PDAs can get badly scratched in pockets stuffed with loose change and keys. And CDs and DVDs become unplayable in no time when children use them as indoor frisbees. Now a tough, transparent polymer coating developed by chemists in Japan is set to make scratched phone screens and scuffed discs a thing of the past.
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Tis true that the outcome of Washington Redskins football games has correctly predicted the winner of every U.S. presidential election since 1936.
With that being said, since Green Bay beat the Redskins 28 to 14, it looks like Kerry will win!
Proof in the pudding
Election facts
10/31/2004 Skins vs. Packers game
