2A Wednesday, February 16, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Wednesday, February 16, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom (14c idogan r1 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com STEPHANIE STEINBERG BRAD WILEY EditorsiChief BusinessManager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 steinberg@michigandaily.com tmdbusiness@gmail.com Searching for answers in cells and vessels Q: Where did you go to school? I attended medical school at North- western University Medical Center. It was a six-year honors program. Q: Why did you decide to come to the University? I was on the faculty at Northwest- ern University Medical School. I had an endowed professorship there, but the University of Michigan had a very sub- stantial endowed chair for rheumatolo- gy research, and also the strength of the University-especiallyin my field -was important. Q: Do youlike it here? I think it's a very good intellectual environment. The faculty are very strong in most disciplines, so you can usually find people to collaborate with in all the schools. Q: What are you currently teach- ing? I'm an M.D., so the type of things we typically do is teach fellows in rheuma- tology and residents and medical stu- dents in the clinics. Q: What is your research about? We study inflammation of rheumatoid arthritis, which is a disease where the body attacks the joints. It's turning out that inflammation is very important, not just for rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory diseases that are known, but even for cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. We also study scleroderma, a disease where there is inflammation first, but then the skin fibroses - mean- ing it becomes thick and hard, and you can eventually have contractures. Q: Are there any implications to your research? In both of those diseases nobody knows the triggers, but we've gotten a lot better in recent years in looking at what type of things the cells make. What's been really gratifying as a scientist is that one can actually see therapies based on biology in one's lifetime. Q: What do you plan on doing with the grant you received for your work in scleroderma? We have a few aims. What we are going to look at is blood vessel growth, which is abnormal in some ways in scleroderma. If you looked at the capil- laries, it's sort of an attempt to make ves- sels, but the vessels are disordered and deranged. They're not like they should be. 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Rheumatology Prof. Alisa Koch A University of Michigan study found that women are two and a half times more likely to awake from sleeping to care for someone else, The Washington Post reported. The study also found that men and womengetoutof bed for distinct reasons. - The American Bar Association reported a 7.8-percent decline in jobs in the legal field since 2007. Despite the tough job market, the majority of Uni- versity Law School students graduate with jobs. >> FOR MORE, SEE THE STATEMENT "Jeopardy!" champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter challenged IBM Supercomputer "Watson" to a three-daytriviatournament on Monday, the New York Times reported. Watson and Rutter were tied at $5,000 at the end of the first round. 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Winter errm lanuary through April)is $115, yearlong (September through Aprilo s $195.Universityaffiliates are subject toa reduced The Michigan Dailyi aember of The Associated Pres n The Aoui atollegiae Pres. 0 0 0 a Press freedoms threatened in Latin American countries _ Go has CA] Threat restric are in Ameri underI intern, said ye in i York-b Journa censor out L govern interfe from c The abuse v't intimidation critical reporting and "powerful figures routinely use politicized caused a rise in courts to override constitutional guarantees of free expression." censorship It accused Venezuela's gov- ernment of muzzling critics in RACAS, Venezuela (AP) - the media, noting that allies of s against journalists and Chavez approved legislation tions on press freedoms allowing authorities to impose creasing throughout Latin strict regulations on the Inter- ca, especially in Venezuela net and tighten control over the President Hugo Chavez, an broadcast media. ational watchdog group Chavez has "continued his sterday. aggressive campaign to silence Cs annual report, the New critical news media," the report ased Committee to Protect said. alists said that "a rise in The law approved by pro- ship can be seen through- Chavez lawmakers in December atin America, caused by prohibits messages and images ment repression, judicial that "disrespect public authori- rence, and intimidation ties,""incite or promote hatred" or riminal groups." crimes, or could create "anxiety in report said governments the citizenry or alter public order." state resources to silence It also says electronic media must establish procedures to "allow the restricting, without delay" of content deemed objec- tionable. Officials have not yet explained how the law will be enforced. The media group also called attention to a Venezuelan court ruling that temporarily prohib- ited newspapers from publishing violent photographs. "Relying on politicized courts, the government barred two major newspapers from publishing images of crime and violence in the run-up to September legisla- tive elections," it said. The committee's 2011 report also said violence linked to drug gangs is behind an increase in the killings of journalists in Mexico and Central America, striking fear into reporters and self-cen- sorship within the media. Saad el-Katatni, center, and Essam el-Erian, left, talk during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt on Sunday. The two men are members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition group. Mu11im 1Brotherhood plans to formEgy oiialart Senate approves 90-day extension of post-9 11 surveillance measures Many in Congress call provisions unconstitutional WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate yesterday voted to extend for 90 days the legal life of three post-Sept. 11 terrorism-fighting measures, including the use of roving wiretaps, that are set to expire at the end of the month. The short-term extension gives lawmakers a chance to review the measures that critics from both the right and left say are uncon- stitutional infringements on per- sonal liberties. The Senate vote came a day after the House agreed to extend the three provisions, including two from the 2001 USA Patriot Act, until Dec. 8. The two cham- bers must now agree on a com- mon approach. With Congress in recess next week, there is pressure to reach a compromise this week. The measures include the authority to initiate roving wire- taps on multiple electronic devic- es and the authority to obtain court-approved access to busi- ness records considered relevant to terrorist investigations. The third "lone wolf" provision, part of a 2004 law, permits secret intel- ligence surveillance of non-U.S. individuals not known to be linked to a specific terrorist activity. Without the three provisions, said Senate Intelligence Commit- tee Chairman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., "our law enforcement and intelligence agencies would lack important tools to protect this nation." But from the inception of the Patriot Act in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks, the increased sur- veillance powers have been sub- ject to scrutiny and criticism from both conservatives and liberals who say they violate free speech rights and rights against unwar- ranted searches and seizures. "We knew we were in a very emotional state" after the attacks, said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. He said the provisions give the gov- ernment access to sensitive per- sonal records such as medical, library and gun records, and "can lead to government fishing expe- ditions that target, unfortunately, innocent Americans." Freshman Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky agreed that "in the fear after 9/11 we didn't debate these things fully." Paul sent out a letter to his Sen- ate colleagues earlier in the day, saying that in the wake of the attacks the government "greatly expanded its own power, ignor- ing obvious answers in favor of the permanent expansion of a police state." Countries fear the spread of Islamic militancy CAIRO (AP) - The long banned Muslim Brotherhood said yesterday it will form a political party once democracy is established in Egypt but prom- ised not to field a candidate for president, trying to allay fears at home and abroad that it seeks power. Still, the fundamentalist movement is poised to be a sig- nificant player in the new order. Egypt's new military rulers gave a strong sign they recognize that the Brotherhood, which calls for creation of an Islamic state in the Arab world's most populous nation, can no longer be barred from politics after the mass uprising that forced out President Hosni Mubarak with 18 days of protests. The Armed Forces Supreme Council included a former Brotherhood lawmaker on an eight-member panel tasked with amending the constitution enough to allow democratic elec- tions later this year. The panel is comprised of legal experts of various ideolo- gies, including secular liberal scholars and three judges from the current Supreme Consti- tutional Court, one of them a Christian, Maher Sami Youssef. The changes aim to open the field for political parties to form, loosen restrictions on who can run for president and write in guarantees to prevent the rampant election rigging that ensured Mubarak's ruling party. a lock on power. The panel's head is Tareq el- Bishri, considered one of Egypt's top legal minds. A former judge, he was once a secular leftist but became a prominent thinker in the "moderate Islamic" politi- cal trend. He is respected on both sides as a bridge between the movements. Sobhi Saleh, the Brotherhood representative, was jailed for three days during the protests. The military is pushing ahead with a quick transition. Generals on the council said the military wants to hand power to a gov- ernment and elected president within six months, the firmest timetable yet outlined. The con- stitutional panel has 10 days to propose its changes to be put to a referendum. In Washington, President Barack Obama praised Egypt's military council for working toward elections and a return of civilian control. "Egypt's going to require help in building democratic institu- tions, for strengthening an econ- omy that's taken a hit. So far, at least, we're seeing the right signals coming out of Egypt," Obama said. The potential that the Broth- erhood willemerge from Egypt's upheaval with greater influence has worried many Egyptians. It also raised alarms in neigh- boring Israel and among some in the United States, fearing a spread of Islamic militancy in the region. During his 29 years in power, Mubarak stoked such concerns at home and abroad, depicting his authoritarian grip as the only thing standing between Egypt and a Brother- hood takeover. But many in Egypt contend the Brotherhood's strength is exaggerated. Police crackdowns on the group raised sympathy for it in some quarters. Government restrictions kept liberal opposi- tion parties weak, meaning the Brotherhood was the only orga- nized vehicle for action against the regime. Public apathy atelec- tions made the more motivated pro-Brotherhood voters loom larger.