In 2001, however, Dirks found one after reading a report from Dr. Weissman's lab at Stanford.
By speaking with Rosen and Weissman, Franklin was behaving as countless government employees behave.
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But, Weissman said, even simple tasks can overwhelm the brain when we try to do several at once.
Aaron Weissman is the director of marketing at Skimlinks and former manager of the Google home page.
The simple test was developed and published in 2000 by Myrna Weissman, Ph.
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"Executive processes allow us to make plans for our future behaviors, " Weissman said.
It was this incident that spurred the CBS report and the accusations that Weissman and Rosen were Israeli spies.
In the event, Rosen and Weissman were approached by Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin (who happens to be Catholic, not Jewish).
"These are the things that make us the most human, " Weissman said.
No, it didn't lead to Rosen and Weissman being convicted of anything.
Gabriel Weissman, public-relations manager at TD Bank, says the plans let customers avoid the hassle of a transaction being declined, especially in an emergency.
After that meeting, Franklin was approached by the FBI, which had been wiretapping his conversations, and was compelled to entrap Rosen and Weissman in a sting operation.
"If I'm out on a street corner and I'm looking for one friend who's wearing a red scarf, I might be able to pick out that friend, " Weissman said.
Just in time for the annual AIPAC conference, the US Justice Department announced last week it is dismissing its charges against former AIPAC staffers Keith Weissman and Steve Rosen.
In speaking to Franklin and acting on the information he provided them, Weissman and Rosen did nothing that lobbyists and journalists in Washington don't do every day of the year.
Witness, on January 10th, the assassination of Ilya Weissman, the Russian finance director of one of the few really successful foreign investments in Russia, the Nordic-owned Baltika brewery in St Petersburg.
Weissman and Rosen are in the midst of a long, costly, drawn-out trial and stand charged with mishandling classified information under a statute that has not been enforced since World War I.
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Weissman says these results shed doubt on the arguments against using embryonic stem cells, which are being pioneered by companies like Geron (nasdaq: GERN - news - people), Cythera and Bresagen .
Mr. Weissman is president of Public Citizen.
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During a recent test, Daniel Weissman, the neuroscientist in charge of the experiment, explained that a man lying inside the scanner would be performing different tasks, depending on the color of two numbers he sees on a screen.
First, AIPAC's cowardly decision to abandon Weissman and Rosen and the willingness of the overwhelming majority of the organized Jewish community to mutely endorse the move exposes an unpleasant truth about the nature of the American Jewish community.
"It will completely change the search for new treatments and the way we think about the disease, " says Irving Weissman, a renowned stem cell expert at Stanford University, who says several big drug firms have taken an interest in the latest findings.
He was given false information relating to a supposed imminent threat to the lives of Israeli agents operating in Iraqi Kurdistan which he passed to Weissman and Rosen, who in turn, passed it on to Naor Gillon then serving at the Israeli embassy.
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