The article uncannily reminds me of this Schlock Mercenary comic, about the somewhat fuzzy line between journalists and spies. If the state considers Julian Assange an enemy, and Julian works to the benefit of the general public, does this make the state an enemy of the public ?

Nicotine is not addictive.

Or to put it more accurately: nicotine is not the addicting substance in cigarettes / tobacco. The careful analysis of lab tests (mostly done on rats and monkeys) shows repeatedly that nicotine fails to induce the effects we understand as demonstrating addiction.

However, the belief that nicotine is the substance that you crave when trying to stop smoking, is extremely lucrative to the nicotine-gum and nicotine-patch industry. In my country (France) the state's healthcare plan covers most of those products, making this coverage a (costly) disguised subsidy.

I say.

You might want to rethink that: hypospadias is very common.

Well, AIS is 1 /20 000 in the general population... and 1 /400 in athletes. It IS overrepresented in sport competitions, even though it causes the body to be partially or totally unresponsive to testosterone and other androgens. So, testosterone won't cut it.

S/He needs the visibility !

What about Hawaii's "old" NELHA 220 kW Ocean Thermal Energy conversion plant off the Kona coast ?

OTEC solutions are apparently still alive in Hawaii, as a project and funding for building another more powerful OTEC plant off Maui's coast was awarded in 2010 to Lockheed Martin, and NELHA is aiming to build a second plant by 2014.