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...Sunday, Oct. 16, the New York Times published its long-awaited account of reporter Judith Miller's dealings with Libby; she had spent 85 days in jail before receiving written and oral permission from Libby to testify before the grand jury. The nearly 6,000-word Times account says that notes Miller turned over to the prosecutor contain Plame's name, misspelled as "Valerie Flame," in the same notebook she used to interview Libby, but as Miller wrote in an accompanying first-person piece in the Times, she told the grand jury she believed that information came from "another source...
...point that Fitzgerald is sure to pursue: in his letter to Miller allowing her to testify, Libby asserted that "the public report of every other reporter's testimony makes clear that they did not discuss Ms. Plame's name or identity with me." In her account, Miller made clear that while she could not recall if Libby had ever identified Wilson's wife by name, he did in fact tell her in a two-hour breakfast meeting on July 8, 2003--six days before columnist Novak disclosed to the world Plame's name and her role as an operative...
...Karl Rove had privately told him Bush was focusing on women as candidates and that some conservative favorites had dropped out of the running "because the process has become so vicious." Neither Dobson nor the White House gave specifics, and even allies on the right were skeptical of the account. "I don't buy it," one leading conservative said...
Researchers have known since at least the 1990s that trans fats are doubly bad for the heart. They boost bad-cholesterol (LDL) levels and depress good-cholesterol (HDL) levels in the blood. The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that processed foods and oils account for 80% of the national intake of trans fats. The FDA suggests you cut down as much as possible on the fats. One study concluded that eliminating hydrogenated oils could prevent up to 100,000 premature coronary deaths a year...
...After that, things got ugly. Officials started the impeachment process, then stopped it. In early August, residents surrounded their village committee building to prevent the removal of account books they said would prove corruption. On Sept. 12, police drove the demonstrators away. Roughly 30 people were arrested and 10 remain in custody. Several dozen "hooligans" that Taishi residents believe are paid by local officials now terrorize the village threatening to attack anyone who, like Lu, tries to enter or leave. "Now they're there every day, intimidating people into removing their names from the impeachment petition," Lu says. The village...