Left Side of the Aisle #234

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of January 14-20, 2015

This week:

Good News: potential breakthrough in treatment of Alzheimer's
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brain-inflammation-alzheimers_568fff10e4b0a2b6fb6fe1c4

Good News: parasitic disease on the verge of being eliminated
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2012/05/left-side-of-aisle-55-part-2.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculiasis
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Numbers-Chapter-21/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebers_Papyrus
http://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/case-totals.html
http://www.voanews.com/content/end-of-guinea-worm-in-sight-for-carter-center/2977461.html

Good News: Iran deal advances
http://news.yahoo.com/implementation-iran-nuclear-deal-days-away-kerry-193148623.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1108/Imminent-Iran-nuclear-threat-A-timeline-of-warnings-since-1979/
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/02/goody-goody.html
http://news.yahoo.com/iran-removes-core-arak-heavy-water-nuclear-reactor-171943841.html
http://www.albawaba.com/news/iran’s-arak-nuclear-reactor-begins-process-‘modernization-792190
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/world/middleeast/iran-arak-reactor.html
http://news.yahoo.com/iran-sell-40-tonnes-heavy-water-us-official-145525336.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-elsner/opponents-of-iran-nuclear_b_8962566.html

Clown Award: NH State Rep. Josh Moore
http://www.care2.com/causes/meet-the-republicans-who-want-to-legislate-your-nipples.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/al-baldasaro-ray-buckley-twitter-war-guns_n_2433108.html
http://www.londonderrynh.net/2011/10/local-state-rep-catches-national-attention/43162

RIP: David Bowie
http://www.aol.com/article/2016/01/11/david-bowie-dies-at-69-after-battle-with-cancer/21295155/
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/david_bowie_wows_broadway_as_the_elephant_man
http://www.people.com/article/david-bowie-bing-crosby-christmas-little-drummer-boy

EPA board challenges EPA report on fracking
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/01/05/some-states-confirm-water-pollution-from-drilling/4328859/
https://ecowatch.com/2016/01/08/epa-call-foul-fracking-study/
http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/24/usgs-fracking-earthquakes/
http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/23/oklahoma-earthquakes-caused-by-fracking/

Outrage of the Week: protecting cops in the Eric Garner killing
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-garner/failure-to-supervise-all-the-way-to-the-top_b_8952058.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2014/12/1857-eric-garner-and-untouchable-cops.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nypd-sergeant-in-eric-garners-death-faces-departmental-charges_5692a7eae4b0cad15e65334e

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