Newsmakers

QUOTE/UNQUOTE Strategies proposed by ecologist Stephen Pacala '78 "could prevent a total of 25 billion tons of emissions by 2056." TIME MAGAZINE SPECIAL SECTION, "INNOVATORS: GLOBAL WARMING'S BIG THINKERS," APRIL 9

Ecologist Stephen Pacala '78, co-director of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton University, was featured in Time magazines April 9 special section, "Innovators: Global Warmings Big Thinkers." Pacala and fellow professor and co-director Robert Socolow were cited for their work in reducing carbon emissions through "stabilization wedges." Their research shows that by using available technology in seven different areas, such as incorporating more alternative energy or improving power plants, carbon emissions can be stabilized and reduced in the coming years. Their strategies "could prevent a total of 25 billion tons of emissions by 2056," wrote Time... .When Aisha Tyler '92 served as a guest co-host last April of the TV talk show The View, nude pictures of the actress-comedienne-author were flashed onscreen. The photos were from the May issue of Glamour magazine and accompanied an article Tyler wrote titled, "Real Women, Real Bodies." The 6-foot-tall Tyler, who said she was no stranger to "total freakouts on the scale," wrote: "So many women say 'I want to be thin, I don't care what it takes.' But what if we replaced the words, 'I want to be thin' with 'I want to cure cancer' or 'I want to end world hunger' or simply 'I want to be happy'?"..."We're not diagnosing. We're trying to give ammunition to the doctors," Chris Weiss '82, CEO of Dynamic Clinical Systems (DCS), told the Valley News last March of the Hanover-based firm he runs with his wife, Lisa Torrey Weiss, Tu'92. Already in use at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and a number of hospitals nationwide, DCS software improves patient data collection. It also enables doctors to more easily compare treatment information between similar patients and quickly determine which treatments are the most effective. "A lot of stuff done in medicine is based on word of mouth and tradition," says Jim Whiteside, a doctor in the urogynecology division at DHMC. "It hasn't been based on data that's showed whether we actually improved the quality of the patients' lives."...People fill their iPods with a broad range of music, so Phil Frost '04 and Pete Kennedy reasoned that music fans would respond to a Web site where they could read news about bands from all musical genres. In February the pair launched Shoutmouth.com, which publishes more than 500 music- and band-related articles each week. "Music news should reflect individual musical taste," Kennedy told Billboard Publicity Wire in February. "Most Web sites cover only the Top Ten music stories each day—the stories with mass appeal. That type of generic coverage does not satisfy the needs of serious music fans."... "This is a sad chapter in Cherokee history. But this is not my Cherokee Nation. My Cherokee Nation is one that honors all parts of her past," tribal council member Taylor Keen '91 told The New York Times last March prior to a vote in which Cherokees amended their constitution, limiting citizenship to those listed as "Cherokee by blood." The vote rescinded tribal membership for Freedmen, the descendants of black slaves once owned by Cherokees, who have enjoyed full citizenship rights for 141 years and who constitute 25,000 of the 270,000 Cherokees. Like the Seminoles, however, who temporarily lost their sovereign nation status after a similar vote in 2000 (the Seminoles ultimately allowed the Freedmen to rejoin the tribe), the Cherokees now risk losing their tribal sovereignty. "There is a racial schism in Indian country that is growing and getting worse," says Jon Velie, a lawyer for the Seminole and Cherokee Freedmen...."l'm responsible for the presentation and delivery of the sport of biathlon for the 2010 Games. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Max Saenger '88 told the Portland (Maine) Press Herald last March. Saenger was hired by the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee after members journeyed to Fort Kent, Maine, to observe the 2004 World Cup, which was overseen by Saenger. A top Nordic skier in the U.S. and Switzerland (he holds dual citizenship), Saenger transitioned to the biathlon in the early 19905. He eventually made the Swiss national team and competed on the World Cup circuit before retiring in 1998. Since then Saenger has worked for the nonprofit Maine Winter Sports Center, co-founded by his former Nordic teammate Max Cobb '87. "He set the standard here, and everybody rose up to it," Cobb says of the world-class venues Saenger helped to establish in Fort Kent and Presque Isle....Stephen Colbert may be Dartmouth's most surprising alum since, well, The Godfather's Michael Corleone '49. Colbert, the perpetrator of "truthiness" and host of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, attended Northwestern University. But his unofficial bio claims Colbert attended Dartmouth. "Stephen graduated in the top 47 percent of his class at Dartmouth," it reads,,"where he majored in history and performed with the all-male a cappella group The Sing Dynasty." When interviewed recently by nuviews.org bloggers Scott Gordon and Ana Marie Cox, Colbert explained further, claiming that he worked on The DartmouthReview with Dinesh D'Souza '83 and LauraIngraham 'BS. He says he was exposed to a good education "but basically wasted it," and insisted he is still "a voice crying out in the wilderness." Read more at www.nuviews.org/article/chatclass/20051112/21/cest-francais-bitch. ...Last January TheLiverpool Echo in England asked music expert Paul Gambaccini '70 for his thoughts on the 50th birthday of The Cavern, the club where the Beatles played their early concerts. "It seemed to be so exotic, not some hole in the ground," he said. "But going down those steps and standing in The Cavern—this was not any old basement. I can see why people go there on pilgrimages." Gambaccini hosts America'sGreatest Hits on BBC Radio 2 and is co-author of the Guinness Book of Hit Singles from1977 to 1996....A5a Tapley '02 was the lead author of a study by Ralph Naders Public Citizen watchdog organization that found the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not use its advisory committees effectively in approving new drugs. The study found that the FDA follows its advisory committees' recommendations only 72 percent of the time and fails to present its own interpretation of a company's data 18 percept of the time. Detailed results were published December 23,2006, in a letter to the medical journal Lancet (www.citizen.org/hrg)....Ed Victor'61 first went to England as a Marshall scholar in 1961 (he earned an M.Litt. from Cambridge), and since then the charismatic New Yorker has become the toast of English publishing and society. Formerly a well-respected editor, he switched gears in the 1970s to become a literary agent. His clients include Frederick Forsyth Jack Higgins, Sophie Dahl and Nigella Lawson, and he recently handled the blockbuster sale of Alastair Campbell's diary and Eric Claptons memoirs. In a March profile The Observer described him as "the only agent to have become an international celebrity in his own right," and cited the fact that Tatler magazine rank Victor and his wife, Carol, as "the most invited guests in London, just behind Elton John." Jonathan Lloyd, the agent who handled the 2001 sale of Victors own book, The Obvious Diet, told The Observer, "It wouldn't surprise me at all to find that he's handling (Tony) Blair. It really wouldn't come as a surprise to find Ed behind that book, when it happens."... "What we have set out to become is the television homepage of the Internet generation," Joel Hyatt '72, CEO of Current TV, told Broadcasting & Cable magazine last November. Hyatt co-founded the cable networks parent company, Current Media, with former U.S. vice president Al Gore in August 2005 after purchasing the Newsworld International channel a year earlier. Now in nearly 30 million homes, Current TVs goal is to democratize media by allowing viewers to make submissions (nearly one-third of the channel's programming consists of viewer-contributed content). Hyatt says that unlike the increasingly popular Web site You Tube, Current owns its content and is a moneymaking operation: "Current is a real business, but we're not yet a phenomenon. You Tube is a phenomenon, but it is not yet a real business."...On the 215th anniversary of the birth of this former U.S. congressman, Pennsylvania decreed April 4 Thaddeus Stevens Day. A native Vermonter, Stevens graduated from Dartmouth in 1814 and moved to Lancaster, where he established a law practice and eventually opened a school for orphans that became the Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology. "This resolution memorializes his historic successes to preserve public education in Pennsylvania, emancipate the slaves, pass the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery and enable reconstruction of the south after the Civil War," Pennsylvania State House Rep. Mike Sturla told the Lancaster New Era/Intelligencer Journal....The Washington Post reported last March that Maryland state Senator Alex X. Mooney '93 (R-Frederick), a member of the Judicial Proceedings Committee, was the focus of weeks of drama surrounding a vote to repeal the states death penalty. The committee ultimately deadlocked on the legislation, and also voted down two proposed amendments, including one from Mooney that would have limited capital punishment to those already serving prison terms. "As a philosophy major from Dartmouth College who takes matters of faith seriously, I felt I owed it to myself and to my constituents to research and consider this issue with an open mind," Mooney, a conservative Catholic, said prior to the vote.... The Journal News (Westchester County, New York) reported in April that Joseph M.Jasinski '76 was named one of IBM's 74 new Distinguished Engineers Jasinski is the program director for the Healthcare and Lifesciences Institute at IBM Research in Hawthorne, New York. His projects include the Genographic Partnership (working with National Geographic), which uses genomics to map human migrations out of Africa more than 30,000 years ago, and leading IBM's participation in the Global Pandemic Initiative. "It's all tied to improving quality, effectiveness and affordability of health care," Jasinski says. "It might not seem obvious, but even the Genographic Project, which is building a huge database of medical information, in this case for anthropology, demonstrates that it can be done."... Fiona Bayly '89 was among the runners pictured in a New York Times photograph of the 30th annual Empire State Building Run-Up last February. Bayly, who has completed seven Run-Ups, finished third in the race up the building's 1,576 steps (approximately 1/5 mile), clocking in at 13:25. "It's harder than a marathon," Bayly says on the New York Road Runners Web site (www.nyrr.org). "You're going at maximal effort right from the start. You don't want to go any harder, butyou have to go harder."...According to the Island-Reporter.com, Gilbert "Gib" Warren '53 registered two holes-inone during one round of golf on February 23 at the Dunes Golf & Tennis Club in Sanibel Island, Florida. On the ninth hole he hit a 9-iron 111 yards into the cup. He then aced the 148-yard 17th hole with a 4-iron.

Stephen Pacala '78

Joel Hyatt '72 (left) with Al Gore

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "What we have set out to become is the television homepage of the Internet generation." JOEI, HYATT '72, CEO OF CURRENT TV, IN BROADCASTING & CABLE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 20

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "It's harder than a marathon." FIONA BAYLY '89, WHO FINISHED THIRD IN THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING RUN-UP IN FEBRUARY, ON THE NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS WEB SITE