Los Angeles Times Announces Masthead Changes.
Alice Short Named Assistant Managing Editor, Features; Nicholas Goldberg Named Deputy Editor, Editorial Pages, Sue Horton Editor, Op-Ed and Sunday Opinion LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- To further the Los Angeles Times mission to deliver a rich balance of news, information, features and opinion, several promotions...

Celebrating an amazing asset.
COLUMN: EDITORIAL Thursday was a star-studded night at Clinton's Museum of Russian Icons. Not only was it a who's who of the community, but it attracted Russian officials from across the country and across the world. "This is impressive," one attendee said during the ceremony....

Editorial.
Welcome to the third issue of Teaching Science or 2008, a special SiMERR issue of the journal. have always considered the idea of a single-focus issue attractive but have not been able to bring it to fruition--until now. The concept of an issue of TS devoted to science education...

EP welcomes Tom Cheetham, MD to its Editorial Advisory Board and Thomas M. Brinker, Jr., CPA to the Board of Directors.
EP is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Tom Cheetham to the Editorial Advisory Board and Thomas M. Brinker, Jr. to the Board of Directors. Dr. Cheetham is a board certified family practice physician with extensive experience in treating individuals with developmental disabilities. Dr. Cheetham has...

Majority of House of Lords panel rules that Article 10 of European Human Rights Convention does not bar news corporation with commercial ties to English market from recovering in defamation action even in absence of alleging special damages.
In this libel action, the Plaintiffs are Mohammed Jameel, a prominent Saudi Arabian businessman, and a trading company, Abdul Latif Jameel Co., Ltd., a Saudi Arabian trading corporation, of which Jameel was president and general manager. The Wall Street Journal Europe Sprl. (Defendant) published an article edited and printed...

EU Court of First Instance holds that prominent Canadian researcher who discovered low efficacy and serious side effects of drug to treat thalassamia major during three clinical trials required by U. S. Food and Drug Administration and reported adverse data to EU agencies about to approve drug, ......
EU Court of First Instance holds that prominent Canadian researcher who discovered low efficacy and serious side effects of drug to treat thalassamia major during three clinical trials required by U. S. Food and Drug Administration and reported adverse data to EU agencies about to approve drug, has insufficient...

In "cybersquatting" case involving internet domain names, First Circuit holds that U.S.'s Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act grants federal courts jurisdiction to override findings of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) dispute resolution policy.
This case raises an important issue of first impression, namely, whether a domain name registrant who lost in a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) proceeding pursuant to its Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) may challenge this result in federal court. Under 15 U.S.C. Section 1114(2)(D)(v) of the...

Pakistani President pardons exporter of nuclear technology.
On February 5, 2004, President Musharraf of Pakistan issued a pardon to Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the nation's leading nuclear scientist. He had admitted to privately leaking nuclear weapons technology to "rogue" states such as Iran, Libya and North Korea over at least ten years beginning in the late...