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GREEN VALLEY, ARIZ.<br> -- "Somos amigos," called Shura Wallin, ducking low into the shade beneath the <b>highway</b> overpass. "We're friends," she said again in Spanish, calling <b>out</b> to anyone who might be hiding.<br> "Don't be afraid." The university says leasing land to <b>a</b> gas company to conduct hydraulic fracturing would allow researchers to study the impact in a closed environment.JUST DAYS after President <b>Obama</b> issued an executive order to govern long-term detentions at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Republican members of the House and Senate shot back by offering their own, strikingly different proposals.<br> Argentina is one of the world’s leading soybean exporters. <br> The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) announced earlier this month that Professor Martin Polz of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is recipient of the Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award, ASM's oldest and most prestigious prize.Polz, a microbiologist whose research explores the relationships between structure and function in microbial communities in the wild, is the first ecologist to be selected in the 77-year history of the award, which rewards fundamental research in microbiology or immunology by a scientist not yet 45 <b>years</b> old.<br> Polz <b>will</b> receive the award <b>and</b> give the Eli Lilly Award Lecture during the ASM’s 113th General Meeting to be held in Denver in <b>May.Polz<br></b> received a master’s of science in zoology<br><img src="http://getitwhit.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/baby-girl-flower-cap.jpg"><br> in 1991 from the <b>University</b> of Vienna and PhD <b>from</b> Harvard University in 1997. The next year, he joined the faculty of MIT, where he teaches environmental microbiology at <b>the</b> undergraduate and graduate levels. His research is focused <b>on</b> the evolutionary ecology of microbes in the wild <b>and</b> combines environmental observations with genomics and molecular genetics.“Polz’s lab, thanks to his own scientific breadth, is the <b>most</b> well-rounded center of research I know, using molecular ecology, chemistry, molecular genetics, population <a href = "http://truth-about-abs-review4u.webs.com/">the truth about six pack abs review </a> genomics and phylogenomics all with proficiency and imagination,†said Professor Emeritus W.<br> Ford Doolittle of Dalhousie University.Recent<br> work by Polz showed for the <b>first</b> time that individual marine microbes exhibit social cooperation by producing and using antibiotics not solely for selfish intentions, but for the good of the micro-population. This is the first time that this type of <b>social</b> behavior has been observed in natural populations of bacteria, and the findings open new lines <b>of</b> inquiry into the social structure and interactions in microbial communities in their natural environment.“Polz<br> has made fundamental contributions to the technology and theory necessary to advance understanding of the structure and function of natural microbial communities,†said Professor David Stahl of the University of Washington.<br> “While most <b>environmental</b> microbiologists continue to explore and map microbial diversity in very broad strokes, seeking to identify novel lineages and map gene presence/absence patterns, Martin <b>is</b> contributing to a framework that should advance structure-function relationships.â€In addition to his body of work, Polz has contributed to the scientific community through <b>service.</b> He is an editor for Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews and Environmental Microbiology, and <b>serves</b> on the editorial board of BMC Microbiome. He currently serves on the Bigelow Marine Lab CCMP advisory board and has been active in ASM advocacy activities. He <b>is</b> a member of the MIT Center for Environmental Health, the Earth Systems Initiative and the Systems Biology Initiative. <b>He</b> is also <b>on</b> the MIT Radiation Safety Committee, the Microbiology Graduate Committee, and is a member of the MIT-WHOI <b>Joint</b> Program.<br> He is also a sought-after lecturer. In 2012, Polz was elected as a Fellow into the American Academy of Microbiology. Known as Segue 2, the galaxy consists of <b>just</b> 1,000 <b>stars. </b> Federal consumer bureau headmakes no apologies for the new agency's <b>involvement</b> in talks with mortgage servicers. <a href = "http://trademiner-review.webs.com/">TradeMiner </a> <b>in</b> House made him the highest-paid actor ever in a TV drama, but with a new album out this week Laurie is keen to follow his real loveAbout an hour into my encounter with Hugh Laurie, in a suite at the Dorchester in London, he starts protesting at length about how boring his answers <b>to</b> my questions are.<br> He had been talking – rather <b>interestingly</b> – about his theory that television, rather than film, was the medium through which <b>the</b> US "not just projects its image of itself to the world, but <b>actually</b> decides what its image is. It's America's way of <b>conversing</b> with itself about what it believes to be important."He has just finished telling me that he doesn't think British TV is as interested in expressing grand ideas about identity and purpose <b>–</b> "I think that's a bit highfalutin <b>for</b> us" – when he suddenly brings himself <b>up</b> short. This is all so boring that he is boring himself, he says. He gestures towards the iPhone on which I'm recording the interview.<br> "If I get any <b>duller,"</b> he sighs, "I think your phone <b>might</b> actually go: '**** it, I'm not recording this. Really this <b>application</b> is designed to record things of value. I mean, the assumption was <b>you</b> weren't just going to record a man scratching his <b>arse.</b> Because if that's what you're going to do, I'm quitting. <b>Scramble.<br></b> <b>Escape.'"This<br></b> kind of thing is supposed to be par for the course when <b>you</b> interview Laurie.<br> He famously loathes talking to journalists almost as much as he hates being photographed, and his attitude to <b>being</b> <b>photographed</b> would impress a 19th-century Native American: "I really do believe the camera steals the soul.<br> But that may be because <b>I'm</b> worried about my soul.<br> I don't have much of a soul<br><img src="http://c69282.r82.cf3.rackcdn.com/trp_-_pr_22_-_13_04_10___029.jpg"><br> to begin with, I can't afford <a href = "http://fast-track-cash4u.webs.com/">Fast Track Cash ewen chia </a> much."<br> That said, his aversion to being photographed has not precluded him becoming the "spokesmodel" for L'Oreal's male skincare range.<br> "Proudly <b>so!"</b> he says, explaining he uses the money to fund a variety of charitable projects in Africa and claiming he doesn't really know what being <b>a</b> spokesmodel entails: "I made a commercial and I was <b>photographed,</b> I did a poster <b>once.</b> <b>I'll</b> presumably have to do that again.<br> If you're going to ask me questions <b>about</b> <b>skincare,</b> there's not much I can tell you. Don't rub a cheese <b>grater</b> up and down your cheeks. That would be my <b>advice.<br></b> Don't dunk your face in engine oil or other caustic substances. I don't know anything about it. They sort of ask you to do this thing and you go: 'You're out of your fucking mind, not in a billion years would I consider such a thing.' <b>Then,</b> as they tell you it's a great deal <b>of</b> money, the thought crosses your mind: 'With that money I could build a school in Senegal.'<br> And then you can't say no. Because if you do say no, what you're saying<br><img src="http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/9000000/Lovely-Baby-sweety-babies-9049984-400-320.jpg"><br> is that your public pose is more important than people getting a school in Senegal or polio vaccinations in Uganda or whatever. You can't do that. You just can't."Still, he once compared talking to the press to putting <b>his</b> testicles on a chopping board – and, judging by his past interviews, it almost invariably turns into an exercise in caustic <b>self-deprecation</b> and soul-searching, which journalists tend to take as symptomatic of a deeper malaise.<br> Laurie has struggled with depression in the past, and seems big on depicting himself as a man who feels guilty <b>about</b> his apparently undeserved success, who <b>doesn't</b> much enjoy being <b>famous</b> (something of a problem given his eight-year tenure <b>as</b> the titular star of <a href = "http://food4wealth.webs.com/">Food4Wealth download </a> ended last year but at its peak <b>was</b> the most-watched TV show in the world, distributed to 66 countries and<br><img src="http://i.usatoday.net/life/_photos/2012/01/29/TV-tonight-House-Gossip-Girl-Bachelor-CUTOCBM-x-large.jpg"><br> for which he commanded £250,000 an episode, getting him in Guinness <b>World</b> Records as the highest-paid actor ever in a TV drama), for whom life was "a gradually descending mist of confusion and doubt" and whose "version of happiness consists of not being happy".The thing is, today at least, he does not seem much<br><img src="http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/bloguploads/funny-youtube-comments-gyote.jpg"><br> <b>like</b> that at all.<br> He does react a little suspiciously when I say I like his new album, Didn't It Rain, a follow-up to<br><img src="http://newjerseyrideagainstaids.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/njraatrain.jpg"><br> 2011's Let Them Talk, on which he once <b>again</b> performs classic blues songs, music he says he has loved since childhood. "Thank you for saying that, I'm very relieved," he begins, before frowning. "Well, if <b>you</b> mean it.<br> <b>You</b> have to say that otherwise it's going to be awkward, isn't it? 'Heard your album, sort <b>of</b> hated it.<br> Anyway, my first question.' It's a difficult way to kick off, I suppose."Then again he seems genuinely startled by Let Them Talk's success, perhaps with good reason. Actors <b>who</b> parlay their fame into recording careers rarely have as smooth a ride as Laurie seems to have done. Despite a case of nerves in the studio that could be stayed only <b>with</b> "proper and sensible <b>applications</b> of whisky and <b>beta-blockers</b> and picking the right<br><img src="http://getitwhit.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/baby-girl-flower-cap.jpg"><br> people to be around you – people who, even if they are rolling their eyes and going 'What a wanker', at least <b>have</b> <b>the</b> grace to do it behind your back", Let Them Talk was both well-reviewed and big-selling. He says he didn't read what anybody wrote about it – "it seems to me<br><img src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img5/20120119/640/hilarious_and_puzzling_shitbrix_memes_part_2_640_47.jpg"><br> if you <b>want</b> to be protected from the unpleasant stuff, <b>you</b> can't go just <b>reading</b> the good stuff, that seems <a href = "http://aquaponics-4-you.webs.com/">Aquaponics 4 You download </a> but he can't have missed the gold albums and the sold-out tours.<br> "I <b>know</b> that it did all right, and I was surprised by <b>it.<br></b> When people buy a ticket, that I sort of understand, it says my name on it and they've watched the television show, and they think: <b>'Ah</b> well, if nothing else, we'll see the bloke off the TV.' But buying a record, you don't get that, you don't get the visual. So I was very, very surprised that<br><img src="http://highermusic.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/carinaround.jpg"><br> people were able to make the sort of<br><img src="http://newjerseyrideagainstaids.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/njraatrain.jpg"><br> adjustment.<br> Because, to be perfectly <b>honest,</b> I'm not <b>sure</b> I would." <b>He</b> thinks for a moment. "For example, Clive Dunn," he says, <b>a</b> little unexpectedly. "Splendid. Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's watercolours.<br><img src="http://girlsrideout.com/wp-content/uploads/EasyRotatorStorage/user-content/erc_34_1340941009/content/assets/Araluen-0.jpg"><br> I loved him in Dad's Army, loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work."For someone who apparently hates being interviewed so much it can threaten to bring <b>on</b> a panic <b>attack</b> – "I don't like the act of talking, it makes me slightly light-headed," he protests when his PR ventures in from<br><img src="http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2011/01/baby_girl_face.jpg"><br> <b>the</b> room next door to ask how it's going.<br> "I get a bit … is it hypertensive or hypotensive? Anyway, the brown paper <b>bag</b> thing" – Laurie is thoughtful and engaging, very funny, extremely sharp, given to long answers that deviate from the question and frequently <b>end</b> with him asking questions of himself. In fact, he is such <b>jolly</b> company, it is hard not to wonder if the loudly expressed <b>ennui,</b> the stuff about not <b>having</b> a soul and the threats to start hyperventilating are really glimpses into the tortured self-doubting soul that broils beneath.<br> I just think he finds being Eeyorish funny, which <a href = "http://mass-income-multiplier4u.webs.com/">Mass Income Multiplier Review </a> in his hands, it is: "If a thing's worth doing, it's almost <b>automatically</b> not worth doing because everyone else is doing it, that seems to be the way of the modern world," he says. "'You have to go to this great restaurant.' Well, no, we can't, because you've said that now and<br><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eXx1jcaXtCM/TV3qfB4Sa5I/AAAAAAAAATM/JSK1IBHqvfw/s1600/preity_zinta.jpg"><br> therefore it's going to be a nightmare <b>because</b> everyone else is there.<br> I want to go to an empty restaurant.<br> <b>Not</b> that I hate people, you understand," he adds. "But there are a lot of them, if you look around."Perhaps<br> success has <b>changed</b> <b>him.</b> He certainly thinks the success of House has made him more confident, in a way that his previous successes – whether as a world-class schoolboy rower, or as part of the <b>Footlights</b> team that won the first Perrier award, or<br><img src="http://njmonthly.com/downloads/8457/download/Tough_Mudder_4.jpg"><br> as one half of <b>Fry</b> and Laurie, or in Blackadder – failed to do. "It did.<br> I've never really owned up to that before.<br><img src="http://api.ning.com/files/di3TKwTHv5A1JCvTPba0sQPAYtgTZCWJPlXstje4phMxWlLXnV80aH2IbvxoGB8YyZvybFY8fApkLQY6R*y1iGbKgUwJtN4T/101waystosayILOVEU.jpg"><br> Well, no one's ever noticed it actually, <b>so</b> bravo. I <b>always</b> felt I wasn't really sure whether I belonged, whether I was good enough. You know, I never went to drama school,<br><img src="http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/9000000/Lovely-Baby-sweety-babies-9049984-400-320.jpg"><br> I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a<br><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_39XpJv6AgKQ/S0ox81RkwRI/AAAAAAAAARw/zytdhtx1K44/s400/fart.jpg"><br> qualified actor.' But I <b>did</b> think that<br><img src="http://spadogbotanicals.com/wp-content/uploads/puppy1.jpg"><br> House was something I didn't have to apologise for. It was something I was really proud of and it was sort of … whether you liked it or not, it was undeniable. You don't have to explain who you are to an audience and you also don't have to explain who you are to the people you work with.<br> I always found that incredibly hard. You go on <b>a</b> set and you just know that the last person the camera operator photographed was Robert De Niro and you have this in your head, he's just <a href = "http://loki-link-builder.webs.com/">Loki Link Builder review </a> for ****'s sake.'<br> Once <b>an</b> audience <b>or</b> the people you're working with at least know why you're there, <b>they're</b> not questioning <b>it,</b> they're not going: 'What? Why? Who the ****'s <b>this</b> guy?' That does make a big difference."He even seems to have come <b>to</b> terms with being recognised all the time, which at one point is supposed to have bothered him so <b>much</b> that <b>he</b> took to wearing <b>a</b> crash helmet in the street to avoid detection. The repercussions of being in such a huge TV show – which furthermore turned him into a sex symbol, a subject he clearly doesn't enjoy being addressed ("it's pish and tosh") – still affect his life, he <b>says.</b> Before he went on holiday to India recently, he checked whether House was shown there, as that would dictate whether he could use public transport (it wasn't, he <b>did).<br></b> And he recalls the time five years ago when he went to Spain.<br> "I went to the Gaudi cathedral <b>in</b> Barcelona and I wasn't able to look up at it, because there were so many tourists around and they were <b>all</b> with cameras.<br> I was looking at the ground, taking pictures of <b>the</b><br><img src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/gty_courtney_love-kb_130124_wg.jpg"><br> cathedral and then looking at them on my camera, because I didn't dare look up.<br> It <b>was</b> just crazy. It was crazy.<br> People running towards you, <b>running.</b> But it's negligible, really. There are many, many worse things in the world."Nevertheless, he seemed more relieved than anything when House ended, immediately informing the press that he was never going to make another TV series again. "Did I? <b>No,</b> I'm sure I didn't say that. If I did say something like it, what I meant was I didn't want to sort of bounce straight into another thing. You don't get divorced on a <b>Tuesday</b> <b>and</b> married again <a href = "http://millionaire-society.webs.com/">millionaire society review </a> <b>Saturday.<br></b> <b>Apart</b> from anything <b>else</b> I'm not sure that I could <b>physically</b> do it, to be the lead of a thing, to be in every <b>scene</b> and to take responsibility for <b>something</b> … it's hard going. It doesn't seem like it, of course, but it's hard <b>going</b> if you care about it.<br> You know, brain surgery's not difficult if you don't care whether the person dies, it's actually quite easy.<br> Flying a plane is quite easy if you don't mind crashing. That's what hard means.<br> It's an expression of how much you care about the result. And if you are <b>proud</b> of<br><img src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20100825/640/the_most_amazing_640_01.jpg"><br> it, or you believe it can be good and you want it to be good, then it can be sort of infinitely hard, to the point where it can drive you a bit bonkers."He<br> doesn't miss the workload <b>–</b> "I'm really taking to not going to work at five in the morning" – and the series's end means he can spend more time in Britain, after years of spending nine months out of 12 working in LA. Not, he adds, that he is complaining <b>about</b> LA."I've got very little sympathy <b>with</b> actors <b>who</b> come back and <b>go:</b> 'I'm <b>just a</b> real bloke, you know, all that Hollywood bullshit.' Oh, **** off. It's such wank. It's a lie that the British press wants to be told that<br><img src="http://migrantjustice.net/sites/default/files/temp-bike-ride.gif"><br> LA is very shallow, glitzy, venal, superficial, all that stuff.<br> British readers find it very comforting. 'Yes, that's why my ancestors didn't cross<br><img src="http://dezignus.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/15lovely-heart-vector1.jpg"><br> the Atlantic with the pilgrim fathers.<br> They knew that it would end up as Sodom and Gomorrah and <b>life</b> in Chipping Norton is actually much realer.'<br> I'm damned if I'm going to use the conventional cliche about Los Angeles. There's good and bad.<br> There are great things about Los Angeles.<br> The <a href = "http://review-engine-roi.webs.com/">review Engine ROI </a> fantastic: some of the best trees you'll see anywhere. The <b>architecture:</b> miserable, looks like a petrol station.<br> Very, very clever people; very, very ambitious people. Clever ambitious people can make for slightly <b>untrustworthy</b> people, but sometimes the intelligence and ambition are quite exhilarating in their own way. You wouldn't necessarily want to turn your back on them, but <b>I've</b> known people like that in other parts <b>of</b> the world."Nevertheless,<br> he gives the impression of being noticeably less interested in a career in Hollywood than he is in making records and performing<br><img src="http://njmonthly.com/downloads/8457/download/Tough_Mudder_4.jpg"><br> music: you <b>get</b> the feeling <b>he</b> thinks being offered a chance to make records is pretty much the best thing to have resulted from House's success.<br> He is about to appear in Disney's sci-fi film <b>Tomorrowland,</b> but says he turned down the role as the lead villain in the remake of<br><img src="http://dragonartz.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/_graphics-lovely-hearts-preview2-by-dragonart.png%3Fw%3D495%26h%3D495"><br> Robocop because it clashed with <b>a recording</b> session.When <b>I</b> ask him if he prefers music to acting, he doesn't think about his answer. "Yes.<br> I do. There's a sensual <b>pleasure</b> involved in making sounds, harmonious sounds, that I just can't get, and I don't think anyone can quite <b>get,</b> from acting.<br> The end of a day filming is just an audit <b>of</b> all the things you did <b>wrong.<br></b> It's like: '****, I didn't think of that, if only I'd done this, if only I'd done that.' With music, <b>you</b> can hit bum notes and you <b>can</b> do <b>all</b> kinds of things wrong, but the sensual pleasure of playing a chord or some sort of groove, and the drummer joins in, a bass player joins in <b>and</b> just <b>for</b> that moment, that is the most exquisite pleasure there is. It just cannot get better than that.<br> It takes over my whole body in a way that acting just can't."As he talks about it, he doesn't look <a href = "http://profitbank4u.webs.com/">Profit Bank review </a> man <b>who</b> <b>is</b> boring himself. "There's just nothing, nothing <b>like</b> it. Nothing like it.<br> It's almost … <b>it's</b> almost indecent, how pleasurable it is.<br> Which is why a lot of regions ban it."<br> Then he frowns, <b>and</b> the<br><img src="http://images.wisegeek.com/panting-dog.jpg"><br> Eeyorishness returns.<br> "As they should," he adds, heavily.•<br> Didn't It Rain is out on Monday.Hugh<br> LaurieBluesUS televisionTelevisionAlexis Petridisguardian.co.uk<br> © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject <b>to</b> our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Opposites don't always attract.<br> More often, like goes to like.<br> Bob Baer was a near-legendary CIA operative in the Middle East (later awarded a Career Intelligence Medal ) with a reputation as a daredevil.<br> Dayna <b>Williamson</b> was a rising agent in Protective Operations whose training (entertainingly... 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"Instead it seems a growing distrust of government <b>is</b> driving a significant amount of public opinion these days," he said.<br> Grassley <b>claimed</b> the email debate was part of a wider concern among the public about government accountability, gun rights and civil liberties.Grassley<br> said Congress would be "abdicating our responsibilities" if it did not take into consideration the concerns <b>of</b> regulators and law enforcement.Senator<br> Jeff Sessions said major city chiefs of police, FBI groups, district attorneys and others had expressed grave concerns about the bill.<br> "It seems to me these concerns are very real," he said.<br> "In the real world agents sometime have to do 30, 40, 50 pages [of] documents to get a warrant. It intimidates them<br><img src="http://media1.onsugar.com/files/2012/11/47/3/301/3019466/Someecards-COVER.xxxlarge/i/Funny-Thanksgiving-Someecards.jpg"><br> <b>and</b> they just don't try. [some] cases, particularly terrorism <b>cases,</b> may never be followed up on simply because of that burden"He said "privacy <b>is</b> very real" but <b>that</b> email was similar to bank records, which can be obtained without a warrant, and that people had a similarly "diminished expectation of privacy" with email.Leahy<br><br><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_i1kSkZv7L-E/TRCufY8dUkI/AAAAAAAADZQ/rJpQ4Sq4wqM/s1600/toughcookie.jpg"><br> said ECPA had been "misused and abused" <b>by</b> law-enforcement officials. "There seems to be a feeling in this country, more and more, that <b>because</b> we face threats, as this nation has from the time of its founding, that we somehow give <b>up</b> our rights to privacy.<br> Americans believe in their privacy," he said.<br> Leahy said amendments<br><img src="http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/bloguploads/funny-youtube-comments-gyote.jpg"><br> would be put online ahead of the hearing.US<br> politicsUS SenateCybercrimeUnited StatesEmailInternetDominic Rusheguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or <b>its</b> affiliated companies.<br> <b>All</b> rights reserved. | Use of this content <b>is</b> subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court made it easier to haul businesses into court on Tuesday, ruling that investors can <b>sue</b> them for purposefully withholding damaging information about <b>a</b> <b>product</b> and that employees can sue them for retaliation without having to make a written
