Evening Standard (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
He was a consummate liar, inherently paranoid and a heavy drinker, writes the former UN commander
In Search of Enlightenment (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Two weeks ago I was in Vancouver for the 2008 Congress , giving this talk and this talk , respectively, to the Canadian Philosophical Association and Canadian Political Science Association. On the flight to and from Vancouver I read Michael Rose's excellent book The Long Tomorrow . And I wanted to make a few notes about the book here for my future reference. Rose is Professor...
Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
STOCKPORT County left-back Michael Rose has signed a new one-year deal.
Football.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Stockport County left-back Michael Rose has pledged his immediate future to the League One new-boys by penning a one-year deal with Jim Gannon's side. The Hatters have also confirmed that ther...
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Stockport defender Michael Rose has signed a new one-year contract with the club.
Fight Aging! (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
If you're familiar with the work of aging researcher Michael Rose, you'll know that he uses "immortality" to mean no increase in mortality rate with advancing time. He demonstrated that mortality rates in flies, for example, stop rising after a certain age. This is counterintuitive for most people, given our experience with the world - we expect the chance of death on any given day to...
Everything TypePad (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
With the 2008 Olympic Games fast approaching, many of us have sports on the brain. Whether you're gearing up for a run, root-root-rooting for the home team, or packing your bags for a summer get-away, we've added new athletic and travel themes to help you bring home the gold. (L to R, top to bottom): Basketball, Baseball, Football, Soccer, BBQ, Running, Anchored by Wolfsavard , World Travel by Michael...
Chicago Boyz (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
So, we’re having coffee after lunch and tune in C-span. The speaker , General Michael Rose, is at Columbia’s Saltzman’s Institute of War and Peace Studies making the argument of his new book, Washington’s War: The American War of Independence to America’s War to the Iraqi Insurgency. I thought the analogy had some rather major weaknesses and found his position a bit irritating. [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
... premium on Friday’s closing price. Duvernay directors, headed by William Kirker, chairman, and Michael Rose, chief executive, have already pledged their 18pc holding.Shell and BP are trying to boost holdings of tight gas, which is very difficult to extract because it is trapped in rocks that have to be cracked “like a crunchy bar”.The high cost of extraction has made development costly...
Curly's Corner Shop, the blog! (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... the support of the likes of Tony Benn, Bob Marshall-Andrews, Colonel Tim Collins, General Sir Michael Rose and Bob Geldof? This is about as big as a tent gets. Bell was invited to support Davis and was pleased to do so as a non Conservative supporter, illustrating the breadth and depth of the British peoples love of freedom and liberty and the antipathy towards Labour’s incessant...
BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
How a Revolution Saved an Empire (MICHAEL ROSE, 7/05/07, NY Times) If the Whig opposition, led by Lord Rockingham, had not had the moral courage and vision to accept defeat by the American colonists, and had not been able to persuade the king and his ministers to do likewise, Britain would likely have lost its position in the world, and today the people of the largest democracy in the...
Ouroboros (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Prominent biogerontologist and evolutionary biologist Michael Rose (recently named the chief scientific officer of the Biogerontology Research Foundation) has reviewed the decades-old interplay between evolutionary theories of aging and efforts to extend animal lifespans. In the article, Rose critically evaluates several of the assumptions underlying SENS (Strategies for Engineered...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
July 11: Actor Tab Hunter is 77. Singer Jeff Hanna of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is 61. Ventriloquist Jay Johnson ("Soap") is 59. Actor Bruce McGill ("Animal House") is 58. Singer Bonnie Pointer of the Pointer Sisters is 58. Actor Stephen Lang is 56. Actress Mindy Sterling ("Austin Powers") is 55. Actress Sela Ward is 52. Singer Peter Murphy of Bauhaus is 51. Reggae singer Michael Rose...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
... offering of high consolidation ratios and a reduction in image management requirements," said Michael Rose, Research Analyst at IDC. "The combined platform can enable organizations to build a VDI infrastructure with high density that maximizes management efficiency." Parallels Virtuozzo Containers enables users to run multiple workloads as isolated, simultaneously executing virtual...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
... and Morris-Jenkins executives for a special celebration to roll out the program. Five-year-old Michael Howard, who received a new kidney last year from a living donor (his father), will celebrate the anniversary of his transplant, as well as his sixth birthday. "We are committed to restoring a sense of normalcy to the lives of our patients and families," said Martha Whitecotton, Administrator...
