Lamentation that Milosevic cheats history (CNN ) by dying with no verdict in his $200-million, five-year war crimes trial. Nuremburg was concluded in less than a year. Critics have been frustrated that the prosecutors lumped together the atrocity charges against Milosevic from Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, and that he was allowed to be his own defense attorney and use the trial as his bully pulpit.

Milosevic’s was the second death in recent days of a Serbian in custody in the Hague, and questions abound about whether he suicided (Yahoo! News) and about his longstanding fears (BBC )his food was being poisoned. His post-mortem (with a Serbian pathologist in attendance) takes place today.

Not that the conclusion of the trial would have prevented this, but dying without a verdict against him facilitates his celebration as a hero by ultra-nationalist Serbian elements, even while many Serbians are relieved at his passing. Milosevic has always justified his barbarity as a defense against the victimization of Serbia; if there is widespread sympathy in Serbia for the notion that his death had something to do with maltreatment by the authorities in the Hague, it will become less likely that Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic will ever be extradited for their war crimes.

Nevertheless, most of the world will not grieve the passing of a genocidal monster who blackened the pages of 20th century European history (New York Times ).

If you knew your hereditary makeup predisposed you to increased cardiac risk from your caffeine consumption, would you cut back?

“If you don’t believe you’ll have a good memory when you get older, then you might as well forget about this article.” (Yahoo! News)

I am not sure about the relevance to evolutionary research. The family has a hereditary cerebellar ataxia which makes normal balance impossible. In effect, they represent not where humans are coming from but, with the right mutations impairing brain function, where we’are going to…

Not clear if he disappeared to an earthly destination or otherwise…

Drug companies, as opposed to healthcare agencies, are starting to offer case management to patients (New York Times ), since it is so much in their financial interests that patients continue on their medications as long as possible.

Just as it is so much the function of pharmaceutical company drug representatives to spin the advantages of their products to susceptible doctors, will these case managers begin spinning clinical updates on their patients to their attending physicians in the service of getting the patients on higher doses or longer durations of their companies’ prescriptions?

Lamentation that Milosevic cheats history (CNN ) by dying with no verdict in his $200-million, five-year war crimes trial. Nuremburg was concluded in less than a year. Critics have been frustrated that the prosecutors lumped together the atrocity charges against Milosevic from Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, and that he was allowed to be his own defense attorney and use the trial as his bully pulpit.

Milosevic’s was the second death in recent days of a Serbian in custody in the Hague, and questions abound about whether he suicided (Yahoo! News) and about his longstanding fears (BBC )his food was being poisoned. His post-mortem (with a Serbian pathologist in attendance) takes place today.

Not that the conclusion of the trial would have prevented this, but dying without a verdict against him facilitates his celebration as a hero by ultra-nationalist Serbian elements, even while many Serbians are relieved at his passing. Milosevic has always justified his barbarity as a defense against the victimization of Serbia; if there is widespread sympathy in Serbia for the notion that his death had something to do with maltreatment by the authorities in the Hague, it will become less likely that Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic will ever be extradited for their war crimes.

Nevertheless, most of the world will not grieve the passing of a genocidal monster who blackened the pages of 20th century European history (New York Times ).