Veteran journalist Bob Woodward is embroiled in an extraordinary public clash with the White House over his reporting on the sequester.
Woodward has been making the rounds to cable TV and print outlets accusing a "very senior person" in the administration of threatening him last week ahead of an op-ed he later published in the Washington Post attributing the idea for the automatic spending cuts to President Obama.
The blitz drew a harsh rebuke from former senior Obama adviser David Plouffe Wednesday night: "Watching Woodward last 2 days is like imagining my idol Mike Schmidt facing live pitching again. Perfection gained once is rarely repeated," he wrote on Twitter.
Former Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith also opined: "Woodward deserves a lot of credit for taking a macro story about DC dysfunction, competing econ theories & making it all about him," she said.
In the column at the center of the storm, Woodward writes the White House has been deliberately disingenuous about its role in the sequester, and accused Obama of "moving the goal posts" by insisting Republicans agree to new tax revenue as part of any substitute for the sequester. "That was not the deal he made," he says.
Woodward's report has rankled administration officials, particularly since it undermines the narrative the White House has been pushing ahead the March 1 sequester deadline. Democrats claim the automatic cuts were mutually agreed upon and never intended to be enacted, making Obama's demand for new revenue a legitimate one. Republicans claim the sequester was Obama's idea and that any replacement plan was to be entirely cuts.
Now, Woodward alleges that he was bullied even ahead of publishing his report. He told Politico Wednesday that one Obama aide "yelled at me for about a half hour" and in an email message delivered a veiled threat.
"It was said very clearly: 'you will regret doing this,'" Woodward told CNN. "I'm not going to say [who], a very senior person. It makes me very uncomfortable to have the White House telling reporters you're going to regret doing something you believe in."
"I think if Barack Obama knew that was part of the communications strategy, let's hope it's not a strategy, but just a tactic he's employing, he'd say, 'look, we don't go around trying to say to reporters if you in an honest way present something that we don't like, you're going to regret this,'" he said.
BuzzFeed's Ben Smith, citing unnamed sources, says the official with whom Woodward had the tense exchange was the director of the White House Economic Council Gene Sperling.
White House officials have downplayed Woodward's account, saying that no threats were intended and that the original impetus for the email to Woodward was to apologize for an earlier heated phone conversation. And while the administration does not directly dispute Woodward's reporting, officials believe he is focusing on a moot point.
"What does that matter now? Not much," senior Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer told reporters Sunday of the debate over who concocted the sequester.
"What is true now is that Republicans have decided that the sequester should go into effect," choosing cuts rather than closing loopholes, he said.
UPDATE 8:11 AM: A senior White House official acknowledges that a top aide told Woodward he would regret what he wrote, but insists there was no threat.
"Of course no threat was intended," the White House official tells ABC News. "The note suggested that Mr. Woodward would regret the observation he made regarding the sequester because that observation was inaccurate, nothing more."
Furthermore, the White House adds: "Mr. Woodward responded to this aide's email in a friendly matter."
Woodward's "friendly" response came on Saturday. He didn't come forward and call the initial email a threat until late Wednesday.
This post has been updated. ABC News' Jon Karl contributed reporting.
Government agencies need some tablet love, too. Dell knows this, and the company's looking to make some headway in that space, along with other areas like healthcare companies and financial institutions that require a high level of protection on their CE devices. The enhanced security version of the Latitude 10 Windows 8 slate features all manner of safe-keeping technologies, including dual-authentication with a smart card and fingerprint reader. There's also a Trusted Platform Module, BitLocker Drive Encryption, Computrace Support and a Noble Lock Slot. All of those security measures help the device comply with regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and Federal Information Processing Standard. You can pick up all that security, along with a dual-core Atom processor today for $779.
ISPs in the US are just getting around to enforcing a "six strikes" policy against illegal P2P sharing, but France is now contemplating a crackdown on the streaming and direct downloads of pirated content. Hadopi, the government organization behind the country's existing "three strikes" law, released a new report that proposes websites take a page from YouTube's book and actively monitor content by using recognition algorithms and the like to take down things that are presumed illegal. If a site weren't to cooperate after a round of warnings, it might face penalties including DNS and IP blocking, domain name seizures and even financial repercussions that involve having their accounts with "payment intermediaries" (think PayPal) suspended. As for enforcement of this potential government mandate, the dossier posits that it could lean on internet service providers instead of hosting services, which according to EU law, can't be forced to conduct widespread surveillance. For now, these suggestions aren't being made policy, but Hadopi is mulling them over.
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If knowing you're going to wake up on time for work helps you sleep better, then slap two rounds of AAA batteries in this pistol-shaped alarm clock and stash it under your pillow. When it's time to wake from your slumber it gently vibrates you back to reality, and a built-in projector lets you pull off amazing quickdraw time checks all night long. More »
Last week, Matt Riddle talked about how he mended fences with UFC brass over his positive test for marijuana. This week? He tested positive again and lost his job. According to MMA Junkie, Riddle tested positive for marijuana after his UFC on Fuel 7 bout with Che Mills, and was then cut from the UFC. Riddle also tested positive at UFC 149.
While it's true that Riddle has a medical marijuana card in Nevada, he knew full well that the UFC tested for the drug. Whether that drug should be banned is not the point. It is, Riddle knows it's banned, and Riddle broke the rules.
If your boss banned red shirts for no reason at all and you were suspended for wearing your favorite red shirt to work, are you going to wear it again? Yes, you can talk about how your boss is crazy for banning red shirts and work to change his mind on red shirts, but you can't wear the shirt and expect to slide by.
It's also important for UFC fighters to walk the line these days as the promotion looks to trim their roster. UFC president Dana White recently noted that they have approximately 100 fighters to trim from their roster. Riddle made it too easy for them to pick his name.
Matthew Riddle tested positive for marijuana metabolites following his bout at UFC on FUEL TV 7 in London, England on February 16, 2013. This is Riddle?s second failed drug test for marijuana within the past seven months. Riddle previously failed a post-fight drug test due to marijuana following his UFC 149 victory over Chris Clements.
As such, the UFC organization is exercising its right to terminate Riddle for breach of his obligations under his Promotional Agreement as well as the UFC Fighter Conduct Policy. The UFC organization has a strict, consistent policy against the use of any illegal and/or performance-enhancing drugs, stimulants or masking agents. The outcome of the bout against Che Mills was changed to a no contest and the results of the positive test will be reported to the official Association of Boxing Commissions MMA record-keeper.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? A man wearing a black overcoat and carrying an umbrella as a shelter against the heavy snow crossed a street in the Afghan capital early Wednesday morning toward an idling bus filled with Afghan soldiers, where he laid down and wiggled underneath. Then he exploded, engulfing the undercarriage of the bus in flames.
The suicide bomber killed himself and wounded at least seven people ? six soldiers and one civilian, the Kabul police chief's office said. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack in a text message to The Associated Press.
Though no deaths were reported, the attack ? the second attempted strike in the capital this week ? was a reminder of the Taliban insurgency's ability to hit the Afghan government even with about 100,000 international troops helping secure the country.
The Afghan government uses buses to ferry soldiers, police and office workers into the center of the city for work every day. These vehicles, which run regular routes, have been a common target for insurgents.
A handful of soldiers were about to board the bus when the attacker slid underneath and detonated his vest, said Ahmad Shakib, who saw the attack unfold as he waited across the street.
Shakib said the attacker did not rush but moved purposefully across the snowy street. Shakib thought when the man started to push himself under the bus that maybe he was a driver's assistant trying to fix something.
"I thought to myself, 'What is this crazy man doing?' And then there was a blast and flames,'" Shakib said.
"It was a very loud explosion. I still cannot really hear," he added.
The owner of a bakery nearby said that six people who were waiting outside his shop to buy bread were also wounded. The windows of Mirza Khan's bakery also shattered.
The attack comes three days after a would-be car bomber was shot dead by police in downtown Kabul. That assailant was driving a vehicle packed with explosives and officials said he appeared to be targeting an intelligence agency office nearby.
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Associated Press writer Heidi Vogt contributed to this report from Kabul.
New open access psychology journal BMC Psychology to join the BMC series portfolioPublic release date: 26-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Rebecca Fairbairn rebecca.fairbairn@biomedcentral.com 44-020-319-22433 BioMed Central
Open access publisher BioMed Central is proud to announce the launch of BMC Psychology, the newest addition to the BMC-series portfolio. This marks a significant milestone for the BMC-series family of open access journals, as it is the first new journal since 2008 and will lead the way for other new launches within the series.
In recognition of the need to keep the community up to date with the latest research in psychology the BMC series developed BMC Psychology as the first solely dedicated open access psychology journal of its kind, covering all aspects of psychology. It will also practice open peer review in keeping with all the medical journals currently published in the BMC series.
Deborah Kahn, BioMed Central's Publishing Director said, "We are excited to be launching this new addition to the BMC series which we believe will quickly become one of the most important sources of open access peer reviewed research across a broad range of disciplines in psychology."
BMC Psychology will cover areas such as psychology, human behavior and the mind, including developmental, clinical, cognitive, experimental, social, evolutionary and educational psychology, as well as personality and individual differences, as well as quantitative and qualitative research methods, including animal studies.
The launch edition includes a Q&A interview with Section Editor Irismar Reis de Oliveira discussing current trends in psychotherapy, an Editorial 'Putting the BMC into psychology publishing' by Gordon Harold, and a research article which looks at why people with HIV are less able to recognise facial emotion in comparison with non-infected people. There is also a commentary by Section Editor Keith Laws entitled 'Negativland - a home for all findings in Psychology', which is in response to a feature article published in The Guardian last year on the problems of this nature faced by the field.
Professor Keith Laws comments, "Psychology has had a peculiar and long-standing aversion to some fundamental aspects of science - in particular, the publishing of replications and null findings. Indeed, BMC Psychology will be the first dedicated mainstream psychology journal to encourage submissions of replications and null findings in addition to the regular stream of positive results typically reported. This is not only an exciting venture, but one that I believe is a key part of redressing the scientific reputation of psychology."
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Notes to Editors
1. Evaluation of emotion processing in HIV-infected patients and correlation with cognitive performance
Eleonora Baldonero, Nicoletta Ciccarelli, Massimiliano Fabbiani, Manuela Colafigli, Erika Improta, Alessandro D'Avino, Annalisa Mondi, Roberto Cauda, Simona Di Giambenedetto and Maria Caterina Silveri
BMC Psychology (in press)
Commentary
Negativland - a home for all findings in Psychology
Keith R Laws
BMC Psychology
Editorial
An interview with Irismar Reis de Oliveira , Section Editor for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Irismar Reis de Oliveira Prof
BMC Psychology
2. BMC Psychology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of psychology, human behavior and the mind, including developmental, clinical, cognitive, experimental, social, evolutionary and educational psychology, as well as personality and individual differences. The journal welcomes quantitative and qualitative research methods, including animal studies. @BMC Series
3. The BMC series is a group of open access, peer-reviewed journals that spans most areas of biological and clinical research. There are currently 65 journals in the series (see complete list). BMC Biology and BMC Medicine are highly selective journals, publishing articles of broad interest; the other journals in the series focus on specific disciplines.
The journals in the BMC series are available exclusively online. Each journal has its own Editorial Board, which can be accessed from the journal's homepage.
4. BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com/) is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher which has pioneered the open access publishing model. All peer-reviewed research articles published by BioMed Central are made immediately and freely accessible online, and are licensed to allow redistribution and reuse. BioMed Central is part of Springer Science+Business Media, a leading global publisher in the STM sector. @BioMedCentral
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New open access psychology journal BMC Psychology to join the BMC series portfolioPublic release date: 26-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Rebecca Fairbairn rebecca.fairbairn@biomedcentral.com 44-020-319-22433 BioMed Central
Open access publisher BioMed Central is proud to announce the launch of BMC Psychology, the newest addition to the BMC-series portfolio. This marks a significant milestone for the BMC-series family of open access journals, as it is the first new journal since 2008 and will lead the way for other new launches within the series.
In recognition of the need to keep the community up to date with the latest research in psychology the BMC series developed BMC Psychology as the first solely dedicated open access psychology journal of its kind, covering all aspects of psychology. It will also practice open peer review in keeping with all the medical journals currently published in the BMC series.
Deborah Kahn, BioMed Central's Publishing Director said, "We are excited to be launching this new addition to the BMC series which we believe will quickly become one of the most important sources of open access peer reviewed research across a broad range of disciplines in psychology."
BMC Psychology will cover areas such as psychology, human behavior and the mind, including developmental, clinical, cognitive, experimental, social, evolutionary and educational psychology, as well as personality and individual differences, as well as quantitative and qualitative research methods, including animal studies.
The launch edition includes a Q&A interview with Section Editor Irismar Reis de Oliveira discussing current trends in psychotherapy, an Editorial 'Putting the BMC into psychology publishing' by Gordon Harold, and a research article which looks at why people with HIV are less able to recognise facial emotion in comparison with non-infected people. There is also a commentary by Section Editor Keith Laws entitled 'Negativland - a home for all findings in Psychology', which is in response to a feature article published in The Guardian last year on the problems of this nature faced by the field.
Professor Keith Laws comments, "Psychology has had a peculiar and long-standing aversion to some fundamental aspects of science - in particular, the publishing of replications and null findings. Indeed, BMC Psychology will be the first dedicated mainstream psychology journal to encourage submissions of replications and null findings in addition to the regular stream of positive results typically reported. This is not only an exciting venture, but one that I believe is a key part of redressing the scientific reputation of psychology."
###
Media Contact
Rebecca Fairbairn
Public Relations Manager, BioMed Central
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3192 2433
Mob: +44 (0) 7825 257423
Email: rebecca.fairbairn@biomedcentral.com
Notes to Editors
1. Evaluation of emotion processing in HIV-infected patients and correlation with cognitive performance
Eleonora Baldonero, Nicoletta Ciccarelli, Massimiliano Fabbiani, Manuela Colafigli, Erika Improta, Alessandro D'Avino, Annalisa Mondi, Roberto Cauda, Simona Di Giambenedetto and Maria Caterina Silveri
BMC Psychology (in press)
Commentary
Negativland - a home for all findings in Psychology
Keith R Laws
BMC Psychology
Editorial
An interview with Irismar Reis de Oliveira , Section Editor for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Irismar Reis de Oliveira Prof
BMC Psychology
2. BMC Psychology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of psychology, human behavior and the mind, including developmental, clinical, cognitive, experimental, social, evolutionary and educational psychology, as well as personality and individual differences. The journal welcomes quantitative and qualitative research methods, including animal studies. @BMC Series
3. The BMC series is a group of open access, peer-reviewed journals that spans most areas of biological and clinical research. There are currently 65 journals in the series (see complete list). BMC Biology and BMC Medicine are highly selective journals, publishing articles of broad interest; the other journals in the series focus on specific disciplines.
The journals in the BMC series are available exclusively online. Each journal has its own Editorial Board, which can be accessed from the journal's homepage.
4. BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com/) is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher which has pioneered the open access publishing model. All peer-reviewed research articles published by BioMed Central are made immediately and freely accessible online, and are licensed to allow redistribution and reuse. BioMed Central is part of Springer Science+Business Media, a leading global publisher in the STM sector. @BioMedCentral
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Many new cars now feature an automatic crash detection system that will call 911 for you whenever you are in a crash that is bad enough for your airbags to inflate. Adding this kind of functionality to an older car is typically very costly, but the Nashville-based startup Splitsecnd just launched an Internet-connected plugin for any car that offers the same kind of functionality and also lets you track your car's location online. The device costs $199 plus a $14.95 monthly service fee and is now available for purchase on Splitsecnd's website. It will ship within the next two weeks. The company hopes to start selling it at brick-and-mortar stores later this year.
Study Suggests Link Between Beards and Skin Cancer
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If you are a man and have trouble growing a beard, you may be at a higher risk for skin cancer, though a local dermatologist says the increase is not dramatic.
A recent study from Australia suggests men with beards have a lower risk of developing skin cancer over their lifetimes. But while beards do reduce the amount of ultraviolet rays that reach a man's face, Dr. Terry Brogan with St. Vincent Dermatology says a beard can't reduce your skin cancer risk unless you have a thick beard for a long time. "You know, if you had a full, thick beard, it might block out a good portion of the sun's rays," he said. "But there are still other portions of your face that aren't completely covered, like your eyes, your forehead and ears."
Brogan recommends using sunscreen, even with the beard. He says? "Sunscreen lotions you could probably get through the beard.? It also is a problem for men if they have male-pattern hair loss on the crown of their scalp.? Sometimes they have a little residual hair there as well.? Sometimes, the spray-on sunscreens work well for those areas."
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The 85th Academy Awards are scheduled to take place on Sunday, February 24th in Los Angeles, and if you're looking for the winners, you've come to the right place. We'll be updating this article with each of the Oscar winners as they are announced, so if you don't have easy access to the telecast, be sure to check back here!
Best Production Design
Sarah Greenwood (Production Design); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration) for Anna
Karenina
Eve Stewart (Production Design); Anna Lynch-Robinson (Set Decoration) for Les
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David Gropman (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) for Life of Pi
Rick Carter (Production Design); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration) for Lincoln
Dan Hennah (Production Design); Ra Vincent and Simon Bright (Set Decoration) for The
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Best Sound Mixing
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia for Argo
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins for Lincoln
Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes for Les Mis?rables
Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin for Life of Pi
Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson for Skyfall
Best Visual Effects
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson for Snow White and the Huntsman
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott for Life of Pi
Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick for Marvel Avengers Assemble
Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill for Prometheus
How long will Europe have to wait for its first taste of the Mozilla smartphone OS? Not long at all, it seems. The Alcatel One Touch will arrive first in Poland before venturing forth across the mainland at dates that Mozilla isn't quite ready to reveal.We don't have a ton of detail at this point, beyond what's in the press release after the break, but Mozilla's press conference is just getting going so more is surely still to come.
An advertising agency has created what it is calling the world's first billboard that converts air into drinking water.
The billboard?a collaboration between agency Mayo DraftFCB and Peru's University of Engineering and Technology?was placed in Peru's rain-starved desert capital, Lima.
Lima gets less than an inch of rain per year on average, but since the city's humidity hovers around 98 percent, generators attached to the structure are able to capture atmospheric moisture, filter it and produce potable water.
The harvested water is then stored in 20-liter tanks and can be retrieved from taps at the base of the billboard.
"Agua aqui," a neon display near the base reads.
According to the university, the billboard produced 9,450 liters of drinking water in three months?enough to sustain hundreds of Peruvian families per month.
Very obese children and teens may be at risk for multiple sclerosis, a new study suggests.
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In the study, very obese girls (those who had a body mass index (BMI) of 35 or higher) were nearly four times more likely to be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) within the study period, compared with girls who were normal weight. The link was strongest among teenagers.
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No link between obesity and multiple sclerosis was found for girls in other weight classes, or for boys.
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In people with MS, the immune system attacks the nerve cells of the brain and spinal cord, producing symptoms such as numbness, loss of balance, weakness and tremors. MS is rare in children ? about one to two kids out of every 100,000 will develop the condition. Symptoms are similar in children and adults, although youngsters may also experience symptoms not typical of MS, such as seizures or lethargy, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
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The findings suggest that, as the prevalence of childhood obesity increases, so will cases of multiple sclerosis, said study researcher Dr. Annette Langer-Gould, of Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation in Pasadena, Calif.
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"Our study suggests that parents or caregivers of obese girls and teenagers should pay attention to symptoms such as tingling and numbness or limb weakness, and bring them to a doctor's attention," said Langer-Gould.
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However, the study only found an association, and cannot prove that obesity causes multiple sclerosis. It could be that an aspect of the condition itself ? such as having trouble exercising before the condition is diagnosed ? predisposes youngsters to obesity. But if this were the case, researchers would expect to see the same link in girls and boys, which the study did not find, Langer-Gould said.
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The researchers analyzed information from 75 children and teens ages 2 to 18 who were diagnosed with pediatric MS, and compared them with more than 913,000 children and teens who did not have MS. For those with MS, BMI was measured before the condition was diagnosed.
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Obesity is known to increase inflammation in the body, which may be involved in the development of MS, Langer-Gould said. Estrogen, a female hormone, also increases inflammation, and together with other inflammatory factors released from fat cells, could accelerate the development of MS, Langer-Gould said. The involvement of estrogen might explain why the link was only seen in girls.
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"The authors certainly have opened the door to an interesting association," said Dr. Michael Duchowny, a pediatric neurologist and director of academic affairs at Miami Children's Hospital Research Institute, who was not involved in the study. "These findings need to be repeated, expanded and clarified further" with additional research, including studies that test the estrogen hypothesis, Duchowny said.
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Previous studies in adults have suggested that obesity, or related factors, such as levels of appetite hormones, play a role in the development of MS, said Dr. Steven Mandel, ?a neurologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
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"It doesn't mean that if you're obese or overweight ,you're going to develop MS," but rather, that a link between the two conditions exists, Mandel said. The findings may be another reason to bring childhood obesity under control, he said.
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Although preliminary, some saw the findings as hopeful.
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"We're beginning to accumulate a good deal of information about some of the environmental factors that may play a role in MS, and environmental factors that are possible to be modified," such as smoking and obesity, said Dr. Nicholas LaRocca, vice president of health care delivery at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. "That?s a very exciting possibility," LaRocca said.
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The study will be published today (Jan. 30) in the journal Neurology.
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When Nvida announced the Tegra 4 back at CES, they laid down the claim it was the world's fastest mobile processor. Now Nvidia's got some prototype devices at Mobile World Congress, the benchmarks are coming in and there's no questioning it. The Tegra 4 is a total speed-demon. More »
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