Washington, Oct 21: A couple of days after former US secretary of state Colin Powell crossed party lines to commit his support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, the latter has said that if he won the election, he would invite the former to be one of his key advisers at the White House.
“Powell will have a role as one of my advisers,” the Daily Times quoted Obama as saying in a TV interview last evening.
Obama said that Powell was welcome to campaign for him and might have a place in his administration, if he won the poll.
On Sunday, Powell had endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate on NBC’s “Meet the Press” programme
Washington, Oct 21: A recent discovery by scientists suggests that the most effective treatment for leukemia may rely on a combination of targeted drugs, rather than a single miracle drug.
An anti-leukemia drug called imatinib is currently the most popular therapy for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).
CML is associated with the abnormal fusion of a portion of chromosome 21 with a cell growth-promoting enzyme called ABL, which makes the enzyme perpetually active.
Imatinib slows down the spread of cancer by blocking the enzyme''s activity.
However, the drug doesn''t work in everyone and resistance often develops, most likely because the drug only targets mature cells, leaving self-renewing cancer stem cells behind.
Washington, Oct 21: A US military team, dubbed as “Red Team” for challenging conventional thinking over terrorism, has said that words like ‘jihad’ and ‘Islamist’ were needed in discussing terrorism in the 21st Century, and that the federal agencies that avoid these words were “soft-pedaling” the link between religious extremism and violent acts, reported the Washington Times.
According to the daily, the report titled “Freedom of Speech in Jihad Analysis: Debunking the Myth of Offensive Words” was written by unnamed civilian analysts and contractors for the US Central Command.
The Chief Executive of Google Inc., Eric Schmidt will actively hit the campaign trail this week on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, after having kept a low partisan profile till now, in the 2008 election.
Making the announcement in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, Schmidt said his planned endorsement of the Illinois senator is a ‘natural evolution’ from his role as an informal adviser to the Obama campaign. He noted that he has been advising the campaign on technology and clean-energy issues for most of the summer.
Richard Kemper, a Hillsborough County middle school teacher was among 13 people who were arrested in an internet prostitution sting in Polk County.
The Polk County Sheriff's Office said the popular classified Web site Craigslist targeted men who used the site to look for sex. They were then lured to an undercover house in Winter Haven.
Kemper, 50, was arrested after he offered an undercover agent $ 150 for sex. A software developer, paint-store manager, citrus buyer and truck driver were others arrested.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said, "Our message is pretty straightforward, if you want to engage in prostitution, stay out of our community."
Tokyo - Nissan Motor Co on Tuesday announced a
