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Bergdahl swap reignites Guantanamo debate

Jun 17, 2014

CBS News - 'Afghani­stan is a party to the Geneva Conventions, and the Taliban represented the nation's de facto govern­ment,' Richard D. Rosen, a former Army colonel who now heads the Center for Military Law and Policy at Texas Tech University, told Politifact. 'Once hostilities are over, we have an obligation to release the Taliban detainees, but not the al-Qaida detainees, and perhaps not those members of the Taliban who are affiliated with al-Qaida.'

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USDA to 'Super-Size' Ground Beef Testing

Jun 17, 2014

Food Quality - The move is not surprising, says Guy Loneragan, PhD, a veterinary epidemiologist and professor of Food Safety and Public Health at Texas Tech University. “They’ve been talking about doing this for some time. It certainly should improve efficiency within the laboratories. The difference is that, in the past, 0157 has really been done to evaluate the effectiveness of HACCP plans, and Salmonella testing has been done as part of a performance assay, as an indicator of sanitary conditions. Now, I presume, those two objectives will be focused on within one sample. I do think there’s value in looking for opportunities to improve efficiency, and this is one of them.”

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Bass are in `Good Old Days´

Jun 16, 2014

OutdoorNews.com - Texas Tech University biologist Gene Wilde, who spent more than a decade studying fish deaths after tournaments, said the bass are believed to die from a combination of conditions. So in Illinois, which has developed a solid bass fishery, DNR biologists are hoping to be proactive, looking at timing of tournaments on some popular lakes and studying how tournaments affect bass – and what can be done to improve mortality.

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