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The Scripps Research Institute

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Scripps Gets $8 million to Create Smoking Treatment; Could Help Coke Heads, Smack Addicts and Obese People, Too!

    Here's a grim statistic: More than 5 million people around the world die from smoking-related illnesses each year. That's roughly a quarter of Florida's population. Dead. Each year. The financial burden that comes along with these deaths and all those who survive their various bouts o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    Scripps Scientists Get $3 Million to Develop Less Brutal Pain Drugs

    ​Researchers at the Jupiter campus of the Scripps Research Institute might have some new tricks for treating pain that aren't accompanied by the nasty side effects associated with drugs like OxyContin.The National Institute on Drug Abuse awarded a team of Scripps researchers more than $3 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Activists Target Florida College Students Who Experiment on Animals

    Negotiation is OverWatch out, pre-med students.​Beware, collegiate science nerds: Just when you thought it was safe to spend the summer watching "Project Runway" and exploring the effects of medical marijuana, a new threat has emerged. Activists with the radical animal rights group Negotiation is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Tree-Sitting Protesters Arrested; Activists Mourn Fallen Foliage

    Courtesy of scrapscripps.infoBefore the arrests, they had been sitting in trees for a month.​In South Florida, defending green space from a developer's bulldozer is akin to protesting oil rigs in Texas. Yesterday, the activists attempting to block the construction of a new Scripps Research Institu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Interview With a Tree-Sitter, Protesting Scripps Biotech Center

    Courtesy Everglades Earth FirstEating, sleeping, and everything else, in a tree.​Rachel Kijewski has spent the last four days camped out 30 feet above ground, in the branches of a cluster of pine trees off I-95 in Palm Beach Gardens. She and other members of the environmental group Everglades Eart ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Surprise! Corrupt Palm Beach County Runs Out of Cash

    Former County Commissioner Mary McCarty and her colleagues had a slight spending problem.Beaches without life guards, higher bus fares, laid off county workers, a major tax hike. Such a dismal budget proposal is hardly shocking in a county that's drowning in a housing bust. But Palm Beach County's p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Grand Jury Details Palm Beach County's Sins

    Flickr user: HeneghanYour money, wasted by Palm Beach County officials.How corrupt is Palm Beach County government? A grand jury report released today counts the ways. From overpriced land deals to shady bond underwriting practices, to slush funds that allow public officials to spend millions on the ... More >>

  • News

    June 22, 2006

    Have Wire, Will Travel

    Anna the Medic, one of the FBI's top informants, has cut a wide swath through the antiwar and animal rights movements.

  • News

    September 29, 2005

    A Fine Romance

    Pay for Play

  • News

    June 9, 2005

    The Next Ex-Mayor

    After two years in office, West Palm Beach Mayor Frankel has little to show except blocked streets

  • Subtropical Life

    May 12, 2005

    Best Local Girl Gone Bad

    Elizabeth Fago

  • News

    April 14, 2005

    Pipe It to Me

    Hold on a Bahamian Minute

  • Calendar

    January 27, 2005

    People's Painter

    Hold on a Bahamian Minute

  • News

    January 6, 2005

    Scripps...Shut Up!

    Why don't Jeb Bush's men want us to know about Scripps?

  • News

    December 2, 2004

    Scripps Script

    When it comes to the huge biotech project, the Sentinel's editorial license should be revoked

  • News

    September 2, 2004

    Tailpipe

    Scraping Bottom

  • News

    August 26, 2004

    Bitter Sugar

    Forget the awful past, Palm Beach's sugar barons say. It's time to make nicey-nicey and go into real estate.

  • News

    July 8, 2004

    Cleaning It Up

    Not-so-cute Place Names

  • News

    June 3, 2004

    The Great Slurp

    Gov. Bush's Scripps gamble is sucking up state funds -- and the Everglades with it

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