Pregnancy does not cloud the brain, says Australian study (AFP)
Pregnancy does not cloud the brain, says Australian study (AFP)
AFP - Pregnancy has long been blamed for addling women’s minds but new work by Australian researchers finds this idea may be nothing more than an old wives’ tale.
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Palin was urged to apologize for Troopergate 
Wall Street Journal: Ethics Adviser Warned Palin
About Trooper Issue
Letter Described
Situation as ‘Grave,’
Called for Apology
By JIM CARLTON
September 11, 2008; Page A8
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An informal adviser who has counseled Gov. Sarah Palin on ethics issues urged her in July to apologize for her handling of the dismissal of the state’s public safety commissioner and warned that the matter could snowball into a bigger scandal.
He also said, in a letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, that she should fire any aides who had raised concerns with the chief over a state trooper who was involved in a bitter divorce with the governor’s sister.
In the letter, written before Sen. John McCain picked the Alaska governor as his running mate, former U.S. Attorney Wevley Shea warned Gov. Palin that “the situation is now grave” and recommended that she and her husband, Todd Palin, apologize for “overreaching or perceived overreaching” for using her position to try to get Trooper Mike Wooten fired from the force.
Mr. Shea was acting on his own in writing the letter, with no official capacity. In late 2006, Gov. Palin asked him to co-write an ethics report for Gov. Palin with then-House Democratic leader Ethan Berkowitz that recommended new financial-disclosure rules for elected and appointed officials in the statehouse. That report served as a key document for the ethics bill she later signed into law.
After his initial letter in July, Mr. Shea followed up with another letter, dated Aug. 4, in which he told Gov. Palin that she probably couldn’t legally shun a legislative investigation into the firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.
Gov. Palin has taken the opposite tack, hiring a private attorney to advise in a matter that has become known as “Troopergate.” Seven Palin administration employees have refused to meet with the independent investigator. The McCain-Palin campaign has argued that the state legislature has no right to look into the matter. Palin spokesmen say the state personnel board is the appropriate investigative body, setting up a showdown between the state’s legislative and executive branches.
The McCain-Palin campaign referred comment on the letters to the governor’s office, which confirmed receipt of them. “While we can’t always act on every idea, Gov. Palin thanks Mr. Shea for his counsel,” Sharon Leighow, the governor’s deputy press secretary, said in a statement.
Members of the House and Judiciary committees overseeing the probe — which lawmakers want wrapped up by early October — meet Friday to consider issuing subpoenas to the governor’s staff.
Mr. Shea, in his Aug. 4 letter, warned Gov. Palin against taking her current approach. “My feeling is this is not a personnel matter. It doesn’t have anything to do with the governing of the state of Alaska,” he said in an interview this week.
The governor has denied any wrongdoing in the matter and said the commissioner was removed over an unrelated budget dispute. After bipartisan committees of the state legislature in late July approved $100,000 to hire an independent investigator to see if any laws were broken, Gov. Palin pledged the full cooperation of herself and her staff.
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Cambodian couple saw house in half in divorce (AP)
AP - A couple in rural Cambodia has terminated their 18-year marriage with a divorce settlement that entailed sawing in two the wooden house they once shared, villagers said Friday. The husband, 42-year-old Moeun Sarim, has taken away with him all the bits and pieces of his half a house, said his 35-year-old wife, Vat Navy.
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How AIG Spells Relief: S-P-A
by Claudine Zap
The economic meltdown has been stressful for everyone. That need to decompress may have been the excuse that AIG execs gave themselves when, after receiving a hefty $85 billion government bailout, 70 “top performers” were rewarded with a trip to a posh California resort for a little R & R. Then ran up a tab of $440,000 — $23,000 at the spa alone. Yes, as taxpayers will undoubtedly remember, that’s our money they’re spending on mani-pedis and the mini bar.
Not to worry, Congress is so on it. The Washington Post reported that Rep. Henry Waxman kicked off a hearing on the matter saying, “We will ask whether any of this makes sense.” That’s a relief.
The public may have first learned of this rather flagrant disrespecting of the U.S. rescue plan when Sen. Obama mentioned the junket during the last presidential debate. Search on “aig spa” surged 827%. Conscientious investors also sought out “aig executives,” “aig bailout,” “aig retreat,” and “latest aig news.”
AIG says it’s all a big misunderstanding. Sure, it may not look good that they went on a self-indulgent spending spree, when many people have lost their homes, their retirement funds, and their jobs. But this er, unfortunately timed “business event” was planned way before the bailout, according to U.S News and World Report. And no executives from the financial products division—the one that almost brought the company down—were invited to the junket.
Still, Americans may not appreciate the subtlety of that defense. Even the White House called the week-long excursion of wining and dining “despicable.” It’s enough to send us straight to the massage table.
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