The short of it (covered in depth by Michael Eisen, and Razib tipped me off to the issue) is that Carolyn Maloney, a congresswoman funded by Elsevier, which is a major for-profit publishing company, is trying to pass the Research Works Act, which would deny Americans free access to research funded by taxpayer money. Currently, [...]

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AUSTIN. Texas. (Reuters) ? A severe winter storm is expected to hit southwestern mountains on Sunday afternoon and evening and then move east to dump up to a foot of snow in Kansas, Colorado and the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, weather forecasters said. New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado are under winter storm warnings. Forecasters warned [...]

UNITED NATIONS ? The Palestinians will employ new creative ideas to gain membership at the world body despite a U.S. threat to veto such an action, Palestinian U.N. observer Riyad Mansour disclosed Friday. Mansour presented the Security Council president with a four page letter detailing Israeli settlement activity in the occupied territories, and the two [...]

Gary Carter?s death yesterday at the age of 57 from brain cancer is the most recent in a string of deaths from the disease to strike the baseball community. Relievers Tug McGraw and Dan Quisenberry, outfielder Bobby Murcer and managers Dick Howser and Johnny Oates, also former players, all have succumbed to glioblastoma ? the [...]