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• Lower insulin levels cut breast cancer recurrence

  Published: August 1, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Activity, Bloodstream, Boston, Breast, Cancer, Dana, Death, Exercise, Farber, Hormone, Institute, Insulin, Lean, Obese, Physical, Recurrence, Risk, Sedentary

  newsResearchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston say exercise helps combat breast cancer. Not the first time we've heard this fact. But these same researchers have something new to say -- about the reason physical activity lowers the risk of breast cancer recurrence.Jennifer Ligibel, MD, of Dana-Farber, reports that exercise lowers

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• Montgomery Bracing for A Record Shortfall

  Published: November 28, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Montgomery, Bracing, For, Record, Shortfall, Isiah Leggett, Brian Edwards, Annapolis Maryland, Bethesda, Duchy Trachtenberg, Gaithersburg, Jerry Weast, Marc Elrich, Phil Andrews, Roger Berliner, Steve Farber, Management And Fiscal Policy Committee, Montgomery College

  In sobering terms, Montgomery County's elected leaders began to confront the government's deepest-ever projected budget shortfall yesterday, warning residents of possible tax increases and tempering expectations for what the county can afford as they try to close a $401 million gap.

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• Libel suit against Bernie Farber and the Canadian Jewish Congress

  Published: February 5, 2008, 4:14 pm

  Tags: Canada, Canadian Jewish Congress, York University, David Noble, Bernie Farber

  the infamous Bernie Farber and his Brown Shirts at the Canadian Jewish Congress are in the news again. As usual Bernie Farber is trying to trample any exposure of the Israel-lobby in Canada by silencing those voices independent enough to document the Israeli lobby's activities. At a York University event Professor David Noble distributed

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• Bernie M. Farber and Len Rudner: The 'banalization' of hatred

  Published: February 18, 2008, 4:48 pm

  Tags: Len Rudner, Bernie M Farber

  of this column (Bernie Farber) for murder. And it is certainly current that Canadian human rights advocate Richard Warman remains the target of death threats on a U.S. website, where his name and address are prominently and regularly displayed. Free speech is not, and was never intended to be, an absolute.Attempts to eviscerate the Canadian

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• Why Jai Singh needed to go [Cnet]

  Published: February 19, 2008, 8:00 pm

  Tags: Cnet, Dan Farber, Jai Singh, Media

  He was replaced by Dan Farber, a CNET blogger. Farber has much to do. News.com's news judgment has gotten laughably out of sync with its audience. Contrast this array of headlines on February 9 with Techmeme's selection. Techmeme's algorithm, sensibly, focuses on the Microsoft-Yahoo battle. CNET's editors? Religion and digital fantasies.

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• Jai Singh quits CNET [Rumormonger]

  Published: February 19, 2008, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Cnet, Dan Farber, Jai Singh, Media, Rumormonger, Scott Ard

  of News.com, has quit. Dan Farber, currently editor of CNET's ZDNet opinion site, will take over News.com, but there's no word on replacements for Singh's other roles.When Singh launched News.com for CNET in 1996, his reporters had trouble getting their calls returned. PR flacks, unused to the idea of online news, ranted about supposed

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• Congratulations to Dan Farber

  Published: February 19, 2008, 2:37 pm

  Tags: Blogs, Management, Cnet, Dan Farber

  Jai Singh is out, and Dan Farber, most recently the editor in chief of CNET-owned ZDNet, is taking over. In his new role, Dan will oversee the editorial content and user experience for CNET Reviews, CNET Download, and CNET News. Dan has posted a brief note about his new position on his ZDNet blog, Between The Lines.[From CNET Changes

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• It's Not Hypocrisy Barry. It's Pointing Out How Full of Horse Manure You Are.

  Published: June 11, 2008, 8:48 pm

  Tags: 2008, Barack Obama, Hypocrisy, John Mccain, Obamafiles, Steven Farber

  Denver convention, Steven Farber, is a lawyer and federally registered lobbyist with Brownstein Hyatt Farber & Schreck LLP, a firm with offices in Denver, Washington, and elsewhere. "Not only that, they're a donor," an advocate of tighter regulation of political funding, Stephen Weissman of the Campaign Finance Institute, said, pointing

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• Internal management org chart for CBS and CNET [Acquisitions]

  Published: June 30, 2008, 5:20 pm

  Tags: Acquisitions, Cbs, Cnet, Dan Farber, Neil Ashe, Quincy Smith

  the pot. News.com editor Dan Farber, however, didn't even make the menu, notes presumptive CNET killer Michael Arrington, who presents the internal memos emailed to CBS and CNET employees. Farber might have been prescient in posting a photo of early CNETeer Ryan Seacrest to his preview of the Web site's new redesign the CBS News demographic

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• Manny Farber, 1917-2008: One of the liveliest, ... [RIP]

  Published: August 18, 2008, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Rip, Critics, Manny Farber

  Farber, 1917-2008: One of the liveliest, stroppiest and most influential film critics the medium ever knew, Manny Farber died in his sleep Sunday night at the age of 91. Before giving up criticism and teaching for an equally (if not more) accomplished painting career, Farber elevated popular conceptions of B-movies and other forsaken cinema

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• Hub's Slice of J&J's R&D Investment Pie New Funds from the Medical-Products Giant for Harvard and CIMIT

  Published: August 18, 2008, 6:30 am

  Tags: Boston, Boston Blog Main, National Blog Main, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, Harvard, Johnson Amp Amp Johnson, Merck Amp Amp Co, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Dave Bowser, R Amp Amp D, Craig Mello, Rnai, Nobel Prize, Cimit, Pharma, Devices, Merck

  Still, both Harvard and Dana Farber Cancer Institute made the company’s list of featured partnerships aiding its product pipeline, Harvard for contributing its transgenic mice used in drug research and Dana Farber for discovering biomarkers the company used to identify melanomas. I’ll keep wishing for a supreme roster of

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