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...have been working hard to draw the parallels and revive interest in another SEC investigation in which Bush was cleared of trading on inside information twelve years ago when he sold stock two months before the company announced a large loss and its stock price sank. White House aides insist none of the recent questions about the president's past have affected his policy or the speech outlining it, but the dustup has annoyed a Bush team always nervous that voters might turn their anger about corporate fraud on a president who is proud of his business-friendly posture...
...center's ambitious plans are sparking a fierce debate among fertility researchers. Is egg banking a godsend for anxious women or a recipe for heartbreak and failure? Kim claims he has the medical results to justify egg banking, and he has several healthy babies to prove it. Critics insist that it will be years before egg freezing will be ready for prime time. "It's a shot in the dark," says Dr. Richard Paulson, chief of reproductive endocrinology and fertility at the University of Southern California's School of Medicine...
ARRESTED. BRET MICHAEL EDMUNDS, 26, drifter wanted for questioning in the abduction of Elizabeth Smart, 14, from her Salt Lake City, Utah, home; in Martinsburg, W. Va. Edmunds checked in to a hospital there under a phony name after an apparent drug overdose. Officials insist he is not a suspect in the Smart case...
Nature says it wasn't trying to influence the stem-cell debate and that it often pairs related articles. (These two will be printed in the July 4 issue.) The editors also insist that the timing--appearing on the Web at the moment the U.S. Senate is stalled on two competing cloning bills--was simply to avoid being scooped by its rival, Science...
...government's most egregious lapses leading up to Sept. 11," charges Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman. The CIA and the FBI have promised Congress they will send the new department their "finished" intelligence reports, but they resist divulging raw data and sensitive sources and methods. The two organizations also insist the bureaucratic war between them is over. "The FBI and CIA are working together," says Jim Bernazzani, an FBI agent detailed to the CTC and one of its deputy directors. "Anybody who promotes the notion that we are not is wrong...