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...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b" over Iraq has left it with no bang for its reconstruction money in that country and is blunt in his assessment that so much of the chaos enveloping Iraq today could have been avoided.American officials who ignored plans for fostering post-war democracy in Iraq must today "look at themselves in the mirror," said the 50-year-old LeBlanc, a one-time powerful political player in Ottawa.It is a message LeBlanc is taking to the U.S.

State Department, Capitol Hill and Ottawa's foreign affairs department.During his time in Iraq, he worked out of an unmarked Baghdad office building.Most Canadians have never heard of him, but thousands of Iraqis know him.As the country director for the National Democratic Institute, a non-governmental agency, he helped oversee two Iraqi elections and one referendum, groomed homegrown election monitors, helped teach political parties how to get their message out and worked to involve more women in Iraqi politics.He did it all under intense, 24-hour, seven-day security, outrunning a car bomber his first day in the country and speaking anonymously to the world press to protect his personal safety.

"I believe there is an embryonic seed of democracy in Iraq now," he said yesterday at his Washington hotel."It needs fertilization.

My concern is that there might not be enough there to sustain it over the long term.

It could become much more dangerous."LeBlanc now describes Iraq as an "albatross" to the Bush administration and, he said, beyond th...

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"If I am incompetent now, I have been incompetent since the day I was born," Muhammad said.

Prosecutors challenged the diagnosis by Yale University psychiatrist Dorothy Lewis, saying she had commented to the media before Muhammad and Malvo were arrested that the sniper was likely psychotic.

Prosecutor Vivek Chopra said the psychiatrist's report was biased and had been crafted to fit the earlier conclusion.

Ryan said he believed Muhammad understood the gravity of deciding to represent himself.

But he warned the defendant that he was potentially hobbling his case by going forward with no legal training and little courtroom experience.

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Additionally, more work is expected on designing drugs that will not affect regions of the brain identified as being responsible for negative side effects.

Currently, Bristol-Myers Squibb is continuing to work with the drug in preparation for Phase I testing, which will be “throwing every toxicity test possible” at the compound, according to Cook.

And Cook and Doyle said the licensing agreement will in turn benefit the UW System.

“The agreement not only reflects Milwaukee’s growing status as a research center, but also could bring significant new resources back to UWM to be reinvested in research,” Doyle said in a release.

Leistikow also noted UWM will be able to receive payments off the licensed drug, as it holds the patent on the research.

Additionally, Doyle also awarded $500,000 to the Biomedical Technology Alliance, which is a consortium of universities in southeastern Wisconsin including UWM, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Marquette University, Milwaukee School of Engineering and UW-Parkside.

Brian Thompson, spokesperson for BTA, said while the funding is the first of its kind, he considers it a “small start.” The original amount earmarked for BTA, he said, was $2.5 million, but was cut down to a fifth of that amount.

The collaborative institutions making up the alliance will match Doyle’s funding grant, creating a $1 million allowance for continued research.

According to Thompson, networking researchers in the southeastern Wisconsin area ...