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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man will disappear from billboards, and by 2009, the FDA may ban nicotine altogether under a landmark, multibillion dollar settlement that will impose unprecedented regulations on America's tobacco industry. Under the agreement, tobacco companies will pay out $360 billion over 25 years into a settlement fund to finance public health campaigns and anti-smoking advertising, while disbursing $4 billion a year into a fund to pay damages in successful lawsuits brought by smokers. "We wanted to do something that would punish this industry for its past misconduct and we have done that...
HARARE, Zimbabwe: In Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana, healthy elephants look like millions in lost ivory sales. Not any more. As delegates burst into "God Bless Africa," the U.N. Convention on Trade in Endangered Species voted overwhelmingly to relax the seven-and-a-half year ban on ivory trade to allow the three countries a one-time sale of 59 tons of stockpiled elephant tusks to Japan. While Africa's elephants no longer teeter on the brink of extinction, environmental "ele-friends" warn that the vote may mark a return to the horrific pre-ban poaching levels that saw ivory hunters...
...today's political climate, research like this is a hot-button issue. The use of federal funds for research on human embryos is already prohibited, although that ban does not extend to work done in privately funded research labs. That's why private in vitro-fertilization clinics flourished in the 1980s with almost no federal regulation. What some commission members feared was that the same thing could happen with research on human cloning...
...panel didn't entirely shut the door. The members recognized that if further research made cloning safer and more familiar, society might one day change its mind. So they recommended that any legal ban be re-evaluated after three to five years. If Congress agrees, the cloning debate could continue well into the next century...
...lawyer: Legal sources tell CNN that McVeigh is considering using "quality of attorneys" as one avenue for his appeal, despite the fact that his defense cost taxpayers $10 million. If that doesn?t float, other issues under consideration as grounds for appeal include Judge Richard Matsch's ban on the defense theory that foreign terrorists were at the heart of the bombing in which McVeigh was a mere pawn and the restriction on using the FBI Inspector General's scathing report on the FBI crime lab. McVeigh's lawyers have until July 7 to file motions asking...