TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Tuesday, August 26, 2003

Port Authority to release WTC 911 transcripts

AP, Aug 26

The Port Authority said yesterday it will not appeal a New Jersey state judge's order to release transcripts of World Trade Center emergency calls on Sept. 11, 2001.
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. . . the transcripts must be released by 5 p.m. Thursday.

AP Aug 22

The {New York Times} asked Moses to enforce a deal in which the Port Authority would release the transcripts in exchange for the newspaper dropping its open records lawsuit. When the Port Authority changed its mind July 30, the newspaper went back to court.

Total Information at 4:12 PM

DC Sniper - Missing witnesses, experts

Washington Times

Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad's lawyers are asking for detailed information about eyewitnesses who have identified their client or linked him to the case through voice and handwriting analysis.

In a motion filed Friday and made public yesterday, defense attorneys Peter D. Greenspun and Jonathan Shapiro said prosecutors have told them about two witnesses who misidentified Mr. Muhammad in a photo lineup and another who could not match Mr. Muhammad to either a voice or handwriting sample connected to the case.
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"The commonwealth . . . has refused to provide any information related to purported identifications of John Allen Muhammad and [fellow sniper suspect] Lee Boyd Malvo," the motion states.

".... No information has been received from the commonwealth regarding voice or handwriting identifications, or the inability of witnesses to make identification, except in one instance."
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Total Information at 3:53 PM

Enzymes Found to Delay Aging Process

From WashPost

Scientists have found for the first time a way to rev up a potent "anti-aging" enzyme in living cells, an advance they said could speed the development of drugs to extend human life span and prevent a wide range of geriatric diseases.
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Of all the compounds the researchers tested, the one that boosted the anti-aging enzyme the most was resveratrol, an ingredient in red wine that has been credited with that beverage's ability to lower the risk of heart disease.

But the findings strengthen an increasingly popular notion among many scientists that the cellular enzymes at the core of the experiments -- called sirtuins -- are universal regulators of aging in virtually all living organisms and represent a prime target for new anti-aging drugs.

"It's looking like these sirtuins serve as guardians of the cell," said Harvard Medical School researcher David Sinclair, who led the new work published in yesterday's online edition of the journal Nature. "These enzymes allow cells to survive damage and delay cell death."

Total Information at 4:43 AM