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Indianapolis, IN -- A Planned Parenthood abortion business in Indianapolis, Indiana received a reprimand months ago over improperly filed abortion reports to the state health department. News of the reprimand, against a Planned Parenthood center that recently was accused of covering up sexual abuse, only surfaced recently.

TOKYO -- More than 100,000 people protested Saturday in southern Japan against the central government's order to modify school textbooks which say the country's army forced civilians to commit mass suicide at the end of World War II. Publishers of history textbooks were ordered in December to modify sections that said the Japanese army _ faced with an impending U.S. invasion in 1945 _ handed out grenades to residents in Okinawa and ordered them to kill themselves rather than surrender to the Americans.

SEOUL, South Korea - A discredited South Korean cloning scientist admitted in court Tuesday to ordering subordinates to falsify stem cell data for a paper in a scientific journal, but he insisted he should not be the only one blamed in the scandal. Hwang Woo-suk, who falsely claimed breakthroughs in creating stem cells from cloned human embryos, testified at the second hearing of a trial in which he is accused of accepting funds under false pretenses, embezzlement and violating the bioethics law by purchasing eggs for research. For a 2005 paper in the journal Science, Hwang acknowledged that he told...

The liberal media see their favored candidate heading towards the dumpsters. Instead of reporting why this is the case, the liberals in the media conspire to ramp up their attack on Bush and any real or perceived Republicans that happen to be handy. Last month they were writing hit-pieces on the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. That is, the media coordinated an attack on the 254 Swifties and supported the two or three who still back Kerry. Even liberals get an opinion. The problem is, they should not publish that opinion as hard news, which they do. Because, the true...

Environmental consultant faces jail for falsifying reports An Emeryville environmental consultant will head to jail for falsifying lab results of potentially contaminated soil at highway construction sites across California, including the upgrade of the Webster Tube connecting Oakland and Alameda. For two years, according to the Alameda County District Attorney's office, Eric Rothwell of Rothwell Consulting Inc. repeatedly falsified laboratory data he supplied to various contractors, certifying that dirt dug up at a site was clean when no such tests had been done. Contractors hired Rothwell to assess the extent of the contamination and to both develop health plans for...

<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif.(AP) - La Jolla poet Quincy Troupe resigned his post as California's first official poet laureate Friday after four months, announcing he had falsified information on his resume for the post.</p> <p>Troupe, appointed June 11 by Gov. Gray Davis, stated in his resignation letter: "I deeply regret my ill-advised decision to include inaccurate information on my curriculum vitae. While I attended Grumbling College, I never earned a college degree."</p>