August 31, 2010

Dorry's Daily Digest for Aug. 31

A daily look at news from the Washington Post, New York Times and Wall Street Journal that caught our eye:

Climate and environment:

• Lenders step away from environmental risks (NYT)

• Report: Climate science panel needs change at top (WP)

• Climate panel faces heat (WSJ)

• Judge rejects Cuccinelli’s probe of U.Va. (WP)

• Linking academic, private, public ideas on energy (WP)

• Dark clouds boost natural gas (WSJ)

• An unlikely general in climate-change war (WSJ)

Health and safety:

• Companies race to develop drugs to reduce blood-clotting problems (NYT)

• ‘Dear Dr.: I plan to sue you for malpractice’ (WP)

• Will virtual medicine soon go viral? (WP)

• Separating your Zantac from your Zyrtec (WP)

• Be skeptical of health-care credit cards (WP)

• Using implanted telescope, people with macular degeneration regain some sight (WP)

• Coming soon: Theaters, airplanes to post calories (WSJ)

• The jewelry prescription (WSJ)

• Researchers beaming at light’s medical uses (WSJ)

• Salmonella is no danger to vaccines (WSJ)

Congressional ethics and money in politics:

• House travel stipends probed (WSJ)
• Campaign cash: Who’s spending the most on the midterms (WP)

Trade:

• Obama poised to loosen rules on export of technology (WP)

• Tire-d old trade policies (WSJ opinion)

Financial Reform:

• TARP and the continuing problem of toxic assets (WSJ opinion)