| Biggest backers of Unit 5 referendums are district employees
The teachers' union, the first to give, donated $10,000 — the largest to date. Superintendent Gary Niehaus personally donated $2,000.As of Monday, donations totaled about $23,065, according to the committee treasurer David Rutledge of Bloomington. In all 22 individuals, six businesses, four parent-teachers organizations, and the Unit 5 Education Association have given to the cause, said committee co-chairman Carl Teichman.Expenses to date total almost $20,000 and include radio and newspaper advertisements, yards signs, mailings and campaign buttons, he said, adding he expects final donations to total more than $30,000.On Feb. 5, district voters will be asked to approve a $96.7 million building project to build two new elementary schools, add onto another, construct a new middle school, renovate eight existing schools and upgrade security and technology at all schools.
Can this shiny lip gloss slim your hips?
Always on the lips … never on the hips," promise ads for the new "Fuze Slenderize Guilt free" lip gloss. Marketed by Too Faced Cosmetics, the flavored lip gloss claims it can suppress your appetite with the same mix of minerals and ingredients found in Coca-Cola's Fuze energy fruit drinks. As Americans continue to struggle with weight loss, marketers are getting more outlandish with their quick-fix diet claims. At least with Fuze, a blend of the minerals chromium and L-carnitine, along a hydroxycitric acide extract called Super Citrimax, the calorie conscious had to drink a full bottle of the beverage to get the promised hunger-easing metabolism boost. Now all that's required is to slather it on your mouth, according to the company. .
Wyeth Will Pursue Claim for Damages Resulting From Teva ...
COLLEGEVILLE, Pa., Dec. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE: WYE) , today announced it will pursue a patent infringement claim for lost profits and other damages against Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. resulting from Teva's launch of a pantoprazole tablet -- a generic version of Wyeth's PROTONIX(R). "Teva has not disputed that its product infringes the United States PROTONIX compound patent exclusively licensed to Wyeth by Altana, recently acquired by Nycomed," says Lawrence V. Stein, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Wyeth. "We believe our patent is valid and enforceable and that Teva will be required to compensate Wyeth for the substantial damages caused by Teva's violation of our patent rights." On September 6, 2007 the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey denied Wyeth and Altana's motion for a preliminary injunction against the launch of a generic pantoprazole tablet by Teva and Sun Pharmaceuticals prior to resolution of a pending patent infringement proceeding.
Save a Cow, Go to Leo's
According to the PETA2 Web site, Georgetown University is the ninth most vegetarian-friendly campus in the United States, the result of an internet poll conducted at the end of 2007. As far as the Editorial Board is concerned, this is impressive news. Among those universities that are higher-ranked than Georgetown are Northwestern at number one, Yale in second place and UC Berkeley in the third place. It's about time we heard some good feedback about the dining facilities, and if an organization like PETA says the food is good, we are inclined to believe them. We are excited that the university is successful at both improving the quality of service, as well as improving the lives of a non-mainstream group of students. Many Hoyas make the dietary choice of abstaining from meat for a smorgasbord of reasons.
Sex attack Cadet leader jailed
AN AIR Cadet leader who sexually assaulted a 15-year-old boy during an expedition has been jailed for two years. Supporters watching from a packed public gallery wept in disbelief as Christopher Day, a squadron leader for the Wanstead and Woodford Air Training Corps (ATC), was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday. A wounded-looking Day hurriedly left the dock as the gavel sounded, escaping public view for a few moments before he was brought back in to the courtroom and ordered to sign on the sex offenders' register for 10 years. Judge Sasha Wass told Day: "You were commanding officer and you manipulated events so that you shared a bed. "You abused your position of trust and worse than that you abused the power you had over the young cadet." "I have seen him give evidence in this case.
E-mail gaffe leads to billion-dollar news leak
A simple e-mail slip-up, the kind any one of us could make at any time: A Philadelphia lawyer addresses his electronic missive to an Alex Berenson instead of Bradford Berenson. But what happens next is anything but routine; it's front-page news in the New York Times. That's because Alex Berenson happens to be a reporter for the New York Times, as opposed to Bradford being another lawyer, and the e-mail happens to concern settlement talks between the U.S. government and pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly that include the proposed sum of $1 billion. Oopsie. From Portfolio.com: With the negotiations over alleged marketing improprieties reaching a mind-boggling sum of $1 billion, Eli Lilly had every reason to want to keep the talks under wraps.
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