If I were a sneaky disease, working my pathological magic through mimicry, I think I'd be vocal cord dysfunction.

What's VCD? I didn't even know it existed until last week, so don't feel embarrassed. Also known as laryngeal dysfunction, paradoxical vocal cord motion, laryngeal dyskinesia, vocal cord malfunction and a number of medicalese terms, this tricky little guy masquerades most commonly as the everyman of respiratory conditions, asthma. (And from the dawn of the 20th century to today, occasionally it's diagnosed as hysteria. It's all in your head, person who can't  breathe, it's all in your head.)

Today I was forwarded by several people a really bad and confused op-ed piece by New York Times columnist David Brooks. It is entitled “The End of Philosophy,” which naturally raised my baloney detector level to yellow alert.

ATLANTA, April 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Frank Monaco to Join Management Team

InComm, a leading provider of prepaid transaction processing and electronic point-of-sale (POS) distribution solutions, announced today that Frank Monaco will join InComm's management team as Vice President of International reporting to Brian Parlotto, Senior Vice President of Products and International.

As InComm's VP of International, Frank will be responsible for managing and developing current and future international business. This will include the development and execution of strategies aimed at expanding InComm's global distribution footprint along with the development of new products and services offered in the international prepaid market.

What's the key to everlasting youth? For years now, evidence has steadily accumulated, from studies on mice, flies, worms, and even yeast, that cutting calories is the secret to a long lifespan - at least in a wide range of non-human organisms. But does this work in humans?

Dave Cooper’s pet mantis, Cinco Zapatos, was a good-looking Giant African Mantis with a notable distinguishing feature: her sixth leg was missing.  It didn’t seem to hamper her much.  Her first weeks as Dave’s insect familiar were uneventful until Dave returned from a three-day trip to find that Cinco Zapatos had molted—and had become Seis Zapatos in the process. Cinco Zapatos had regrown most of her leg.  

NEW YORK and BERLIN, April 9 /PRNewswire/ --

artnet is pleased to announce that it is publishing Artful Tom, the new memoir by Thomas Hoving, best-selling author and former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The memoir is being published exclusively on artnet in weekly installments beginning with Chapter 1, which is available in artnet Magazine today (http://www.artnet.com/ArtfulTom).

MCLEAN, Virginia, April 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- GMAC News Center Features Podcasts, Videos, Articles and Other Information About Graduate Management Education

- http://www.gmac.com/newscenter

The Graduate Management Admission Council(R) (GMAC(R)) has launched a new online News Center to provide journalists, business school professionals, and the general public with a multi-platform array of resources and information about graduate management education. GMAC is the owner of the Graduate Management Admission Test(R) (GMAT(R)).

The GMAC News Center, located on gmac.com, offers insight into the role MBAs play in the global economy through a mix of podcasts, videos, articles, and other features.

PALO ALTO, California, April 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Cell Biosciences, a provider of nanoproteomic analysis systems to life science researchers, today announced the closing of a US$10 million Series C financing led by its largest shareholder, the Wellcome Trust. Existing investors Domain Associates, Latterell Venture Partners, Novo A/S, Mitsui Ventures, Royal Bank of Canada and The Vertical Group also participated in the financing.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL) (http://www.borland.com), the global leader in Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), today announced HP will include Borland's Open ALM portfolio of products such as Borland(R) StarTeam(R), Borland(R) CaliberRM(TM), and Borland(R) Together(R) in its software delivery infrastructure. This further strengthens the partnership originally formed between Borland and Electronic Data Systems (EDS), which HP acquired August 26, 2008.

In addition to using Borland's ALM products internally, the agreement provides HP the opportunity to resell Borland's portfolio and use the products to deliver application development services to clients around the world.

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, April 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Additional Presentations Underscore Potency, Binding Capabilities for Antibody Pipeline And Novel Technologies -

InNexus Biotechnology Inc. (Toronto Stock Exchange: IXS.V, http://www.ixsbio.com), a drug development company commercializing the next generation of monoclonal antibodies based on its technology, Dynamic Cross Linking (DXL(TM)), announced today that the company will be presenting new data on its lead preclinical candidate DXL625 (CD20) for the prospective treatment of Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), April 18-22, in Denver.