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WASHINGTON — President Bush canceled a planned visit to Minnesota on Friday, the White House said.No explanation was offered, and officials did not return repeated phone calls Tuesday.Bush had planned to come for a roundtable discussion and a speech on welfare in Minneapolis.Bill Walsh, the chairman of the state GOP, said he had not heard of the cancellation."It was not a political event," he said. "We're hoping to get him back any time."
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Terrorism Analysts Ask Why Saudis Took So Long to Reveal al-Qaida Prisoner TurnoverGreg LaMotteCairo 12 Aug 2002 14:54 UTC Listen to Greg LaMotte's report (RealAudio) LaMotte report - Download 269k (RealAudio) Political analysts in the Middle East say Saudi Arabia should explain why it took several months to reveal that Iran handed over a group of suspected al-Qaida fighters to Saudi Arabia. Some analysts believe it was Iran that requested the information be made public as part of a diplomatic campaign. Saudi officials confirmed Sunday that Iran, at the request of Saudi Arabia, handed over 16 suspected al-Qaida...
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<p>DES MOINES, Iowa — A judge has ordered five local clinics and hospitals to release the names of all women in the area who were pregnant between August 2001 and May as authorities search for the mother of a newborn baby whose body was dumped in the trash.</p>
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists said Tuesday they had transformed ordinary human skin cells into immune cells in an experiment that, if it can be repeated, might bypass the need for either stem cells or highly controversial cloning technology for many medical therapies.The team at biotech start-up Nucleotech LLC hope to be able to offer patients grow-your-own transplants that could theoretically be used to treat diseases such as immune deficiencies and juvenile diabetes.Many teams are working on the idea, but nearly all had assumed the need for stem cells, the body's master cells, which are elusive and difficult to grow...
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[ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 4/18/02 ] 'Therapeutic cloning' shows great promise By DR. ROBERT R. RICH Rich Recent dramatic advances in medical research have improved our understanding of human health and are reducing disease, alleviating pain and extending millions of lives. Today, some of the most promising research to extend these gains is imperiled by politics. This politics either does not understand or does not take into account the differences between cloning to produce a human body -- an idea as abhorrent to responsible scientists as to the vast majority of Americans -- and the technique of nuclear transplantation to...
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U.S. Troops Battle Afghan Critters Look in Those Boots, Soldier: Troops Not the Only Thing Occupying Southern Afghan Base The Associated Press K A N D A H A R, Afghanistan, March 8 #151; Better look in that sleeping bag before you jump in, because American paratroopers, infantrymen and snipers aren't the only things occupying the Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan. The arid base surrounding the war-ravaged terminal is also home to an army of lethal snakes and ants. There are also softball-sized spiders, scorpions, centipedes and disease-bearing ticks and some giant beetles that are just plain gross.quot;Soldiers are checking...
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<p>WASHINGTON — A phenomenon that may be nuclear fusion was created in a laboratory bottle by researchers who zapped tiny dissolved bubbles with sound waves, which triggered a flash of light and a brief surge of superhigh temperatures.</p>
<p>Using a device described as the size of three stacked coffee cups, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute say the phenomenon was like nuclear fusion in a bottle. Some scientists disputed the claim.</p>
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Published: Monday, August 6, 2001 History full of similar clashes BY JEREMY MANIER CHICAGO -- From the time of ancient Greece until the Renaissance, medical investigators clashed with conservative critics in an imbroglio that bears a curious resemblance to the firestorm over embryonic stem cell research. As in the current debate, scientists wanted to use a controversial technique that could improve their understanding of human biology, with the promise of new treatments down the road. Opponents of the approach argued that it would violate important religious tenets and cheapen human life. The practice that drew such dire condemnation was ...
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Brenda Peppers, right, and her lawyer C. Rauch Wise, pose at his law office on June 12, in Greenwood, S.C. (Mary Ann Chastain/AP Photo) Debating Fetal Rights Legal Protections for Unborn Children at Issue in Drug Cases, Third Party Violence By Geraldine Sealey June 25 — Even during the third trimester of her pregnancy, Brenda Peppers, an addict, smoked crack. Her daughter was eventually stillborn, and Peppers spent six weeks in a coma, almost dying several times. After that trauma in 1996, Peppers never went back to drugs, but two years later, prosecutors in her home state of South ...
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Offshore abortion ship heads for Ireland This is a step in the right direction. What we want is an end to politicians avoiding the issue. The government should provide for legal abortion in Ireland as soon as possible" - Cathleen O'Neill from Women on Waves A Dutch ship offering offshore abortions has set off for Ireland where terminations are illegal. The Women on Waves vessel, named Aurora, will provide legal abortions outside Irish waters and is due to dock in Dublin. The Aurora will provide contraceptives and family planning information onboard when it docks - although abortions can only ...
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Judge Frees Driving Range Owner, Still Rules Against Him Thursday, May 24, 2001 Email this Article FAIRFAX, Va. — A Reston golf driving-range owner has been freed after 97 days in jail, but he's also had a new landscaper foisted upon him: Fairfax County. Circuit Court Judge Michael P. McWeeny, frustrated by the refusal of John Thoburn to plant 270 trees and shrubs around his golf range in compliance with zoning rules, on Thursday authorized the county to come onto Thoburn's property and do the landscaping work itself. He also levied a $48,500 fine on Thoburn — $500 for each day ...
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Ventura asks the Dalai Lama a distinctive question Thursday, May 10, 2001 The suspense over what Gov. Jesse Ventura might say in the presence of one of the world's great religious sages is over. "I asked him the most important question that I think you could ask -- if he had ever seen 'Caddyshack,'" Ventura revealed to Don Shelby during Shelby's afternoon show on WCCO Radio. Alas, Ventura said, the Dalai Lama had never seen the movie and "knew nothing about it." "Caddyshack" is a 1980 cult classic starring Bill Murray as a weird golf course groundskeeper who claims to ...
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Kim Jong-nam (R), the son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, sits beside his father in this file photo thought to be taken around 1981. (JoongAng Ilbo/Reuters) Kin of ‘Great Leader’ Detained Report: Son of N. Korean Leader Detained in Japan T O K Y O, May 3 — In what could be a significant blow to the North Korean leadership, a man believed to be the son of "great leader" Kim Jong-II has been detained in Japan on charges of trying to enter the country illegally today. Police at Tokyo's Narita airport today detained a North Korean man ...
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Published: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 Zappa linked to kidnapping Authorities believe he abducted teen-age girl in Nebraska STAFF and WIRE REPORTS Anthony Zappa, who eluded police dragnets last month in St. Paul and at the Mall of America, is still on a desperate cross-country run, stealing cars, beating up an elderly couple in Louisiana and kidnapping a teen-age girl in Nebraska, authorities said Monday. Police confirmed Monday afternoon that Zappa is the lead suspect in the Friday kidnapping of Anne Sluti, 17, from a Kearney, Neb., shopping center parking lot. ``It's not concrete, but he's the only person ...
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Amsterdam holds first legal gay marriages By Isabel Conway in Amsterdam and James Palmer 02 April 2001 Two lesbian brides and six gay grooms became the world's first homosexuals to legally marry yesterday, as a landmark Dutch law allowing same-sex matrimony in the Netherlands came into effect. The communal ceremony, in Amsterdam's City Hall, de-decked with rose petals, came as new legislation granted homosexuals the same rights as heterosexuals, including the right to adopt children. With a wedding cake iced in shocking pink and bearing eight figurines, and with three male couples and one female, it was no ordinary ...
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State seeks foot-and-mouth tests on pig tissue samples 12.24 p.m. ET (1741 GMT) March 30, 2001 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — State agriculture officials said Friday they are testing for a suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease. Samples of dead hog tissue have been sent to federal agriculture officials to be tested for the disease, a spokesman for the state Department of Agriculture said. The suspicious case is in Martin County.
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Zone On the Range Monday, March 26, 2001 By David Shuster E-mail This Story FAIRFAX, Va. — John Thoburn owns a golf-range business in suburban Washington, but he now spends his days and nights in jail among thieves and hardened criminals. The Fairfax County, Va., zoning board claims Thoburn planted some trees improperly on his golf range, a charge he denies. Thoburn refused to comply when the board ordered him to move some of the trees in question, so it ordered him to shut down his range. Thoburn refused, so last month a Fairfax County judge threw him in ...
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Police go after Belgian Napster users Homes raided in search of copyright infringers ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS, Belgium, Feb. 15 — Acting on complaints from the music industry, police have raided the homes of users of music-sharing Web sites looking for evidence they infringed copyright rules, the prosecutors’ office said Thursday. POLICE SEARCHED the home of a first suspect in late December and two more in January, Olivier Bogaert, a prosecution spokesman, told Belgian news media. He said the searches were part of an investigation of the Internet site mp3blast.com, but added four cases ...
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Giant Cheaters? Did New York Bend the Rules to Win? Special • Super Bowl Central • Playoff Power Ratings • Super Bowl History • Super Bowl Trivia Join the Discussion "The Eagles claim that the Giants were listening to the plays being sent from coaches to their quarterback. The Minnesota Vikings are saying the same thing after being destroyed by the Giants on Sunday. Further reports say the NFL is desperately trying to keep the issue quiet. Anybody have any insight or opinion on this report?" AB_PROFOOTBALL Divisional Recaps • Saints vs Vikings • Dolphins vs Raiders • Ravens vs Titans • Eagles vs Giants ...
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Senators place bets on Giants-Vikings Jan. 12, 2001 SportsLine.com wire reports WASHINGTON -- Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is backing the New York Giants in Sunday's NFC Championship Game with some cheesecake and maple syrup on them. Clinton and Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., have made the traditional political wager on the game between the Giants and Minnesota Vikings. Dayton is betting a pounds of Minnesota wild rice, a pounds of Minnesota cheese and the book How to Talk Minnesotan by Howard Mohr. Clinton is putting up New York cheesecake, upstate maple syrup and the Toni Morrison book Jazz. "Her team's ...
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