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Let go from his job after 16 years for this:

It seems like a story about corruption won’t fly in the States if it indicts both parties. Consider the remarkable case of Sibel Edmonds, who exposed a network trading in nuclear secrets INSIDE THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.

Another reason is the partisanship. With the foreign press, there is no partisanship, and that’s one reason why they have been more effective at covering this case, and I’m not just talking about the recent Times articles here. With the US media, it appears as though if there is no clear partisan angle, then there’s no story. As you know, this case is spread over two administrations, and that appears to make it difficult for the reporters to cover the story. Even within one news organization you might have one journalist who wants to use the story to indict Clinton, and another who wants to use the story to bash Bush, and in the end neither of them write about the story because it doesn’t fit their partisanship, their ‘narrative’, so they just drop it altogether.

Note this is a trend that will only continue as Clinton and Obama continue to rip at each other. It seems like Hillary’s hardball is helping Edwards since we know her support is pretty static. Let’s hope for an Edwards win on Saturday.

We are getting very close on some very, very profound technologies. We are now constructing DNA from its constituent chemicals. Another great story here on Time.

On the basis of earlier experiments, the researchers believe the new, full-length loop would spontaneously “boot up” inside a cell, just as a downloaded operating system can awaken a computer — a potentially historic event that would amount to the creation of the first truly artificial life form.