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...size mouse, creating a sort of artificial Siamese twin. What happened then was astonishing: the fat animal immediately began to lose weight. This suggested that the blood of nonobese mice carried a potent biochemical messenger, one that played a vital role in regulating appetite and metabolism. But the mysterious agent was present in such minuscule quantities that no one was able to isolate...
...probation. Three seasons after winning its sixth national championship, the team was given three years of sanctions for displaying "a distressing failure of institutional control" over players. Investigators said the university violated NCAA rules by not reporting that cornerback cornerback Antonio Langham had illegally signed a contract with an agent...
BRITISH ACTOR HUGH GRANT NEEDN'T fret about being the naughty boy of the week [People, July 10]. The spectacle of an African-American hooker caught in a sex act with a wealthy, white rising star is a Hollywood press agent's dream come true. The bottom line: "Please spell my name correctly, H-U-G-H G-R-A-N-T.'' FRED GERHAUSER San Carlos, California Via America Online...
...while the new information about exchanges between Williams and Mrs. Clinton two days after Foster committed suicide "doesn't show the first lady ordered the separation and removal of documents, it puts her closer to the action and conceivably suggests a closer involvement." Earlier today, Senators questioned Secret Service agent Henry O'Neill, who had vivid recollections of Williams, the night Foster died, "carrying, in her arms and her hands what I would describe as file folders. She walked past me . . . and started to enter her office, and she had to brace the folders on her arms against a cabinet...
...might support such a claim. Monday, Fredric Rieders, a forensic toxicologist, testified that the blood apparently contained EDTA, a chemical preservative used in crime analysis, which suggested that the blood could have been planted by someone with access to samples from the victims and the defendant. Today, FBI Special Agent Roger Martz -- who performed the analysis of the blood -- said Rieders essentially misrepresented his findings. "Those bloodstains did not come from preserved blood," Martz said under sharp questioning from defense attorney Robert Blasier. "I was able to prove that." But truth remains elusive:the defenseimpugned Agent Martz' objectivity, claiming that...