Amen. Putting aside the fact that the nation's Britney mania is annoying at best, the coverage of her mental health is horribly irresponsible (and tacky).

Quoted: It's one thing, she notes, to discuss what concerns a doctor might have when a young woman has two toddlers, is going through a divorce and is suspected of substance abuse. It's another thing, she says, to speculate she has something specific like bipolar disorder. After all, Saltz says, a diagnosis of bipolar disorder is a very complicated one -- one that takes knowledge and context, a lot of questions and a lot of patient history. "It's not like a blood test," she says. "Brains don't have a check box."

Quoted: The Online Research Ethics Course developed through the Practical Ethics Center at the University of Montana with Office of Research Integrity (ORI) support during the 2002-03 academic year.

trace your food to its source!

Quoted: Now on the Dole Organic website, consumers can “travel to the origin of each organic product” Dole produces. By entering the three digits Farm Code located in the sticker of their fruit you can visit the country, the farm, view photos and learn more about our products and our people.

Well...whatever it takes.

Quoted: The C.E.O.’s rallying to universal coverage now — particularly in the last few months — are acting not so much out of social solidarity as out of financial necessity, as the burden of financing workers’ premiums has become ever more onerous. “The refrain from business was, ‘We can’t afford to do universal health care,’ ” says Wyden, whose plan calls for shifting responsibility for buying insurance from employers to individuals. “Now the refrain is, ‘We can’t afford not to do it.’ ”

Quoted: The Supreme Court has handed the Bush administration and other opponents of women’s reproductive rights the big political victory they were hoping to get from the conservative judges President Bush has added to the bench.

nice resource....

Quoted: A UW biology graduate student has found the first example of an animal making sophisticated decisions about the danger posed by a predator from the information in the alarm calls of another species.