Wallace Stevens Professor Emeritus, UConn Law. Constitutional Law; Comparative Law; Legal History. Boston resident, Red Sox, Celtics fan. (NOT the Daily Mail reporter.) https://law.uconn.edu/person/richard-s-kay
Richard Kay
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Headlines you thought you'd never see.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/h... Read the Times description of the way this treatment operates in the comments below.. Jaw-dropping what modern medicine is doing.
I've got to think Mr. Pickle was a bad idea.
Eppur si muove.
It's pretty hard to overstate the importance of Wood's scholarship in defining our understanding of the nature of the American constitutional founding. One of the very rare cases where the term "giant" was fully justified.
"Patients in the trial received an infusion containing a gene editing “machine,” or a tiny molecular factory wrapped in a cloak of fat. The fat-coated particles travel through the blood directly to the liver, where they are taken up by cells that remove the fatty wrapper.
The editing machine then crawls along the liver cell’s DNA until it finds its target, a gene called PCSK9. It stops there and erases one DNA letter in the gene, replacing it with another."
www.nytimes.com
If accurately described, the deal just restores the status quo ante. What a waste. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...
The central problem, not mentioned in this column, isn't that complicated. Everyone knew all along they needed one or more power bats and the team just wouldn't shell out what other teams were willing to, to get them.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/730...
