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...business, but has yet to make a profit from it. One problem is that people who have never had a bank account are distrustful of banks as a whole and feel unwelcome in institutions where they could not qualify for a checking account in the first place, because of lack of proper ID or employment history. Even when banks do try to reach out to this population-such as Bank of America's new credit card that does not require a valid Social Security number-there has been a backlash among opponents of illegal immigration...
Julia Roberts gives birth to her third child, a boy named Henry Daniel Moder. Celeb watcher DEFAMER apologizes for the relative lack of media attention leading up to the birth: "We've been so consumed with Angelina Jolie's every orphan-collecting whim that we've allowed ourselves to fall tragically out of touch with the Most Powerful Womb in Hollywood." SCORE...
USAGE Experts say as many as 30% of Type I diabetic women in the U.S. have shortchanged their shots for weight loss, but it can be a deadly diet. Long-term complications from a lack of insulin range from blindness to kidney failure...
...heads the Intelligence Committee. The Washington Post wrote that the "whispers" about Reyes center on his "intellectual firepower." He is a former border-patrol agent with a low-key manner and a hearing problem that often leads people to think he doesn't understand them. Not only does he lack the starched-shirt intimidating attitude, but his education is definitely not Ivy League: a two-year degree from El Paso Community College. The initial questions about Reyes came down to how a man with a parochial education was going to deal with Iraq, Iran and terrorism...
...phone calls. He did not help himself with a botched interview in which he failed to get his Shi'ites and Sunnis in the right terrorism groups. That slipup got lots of attention, including a lengthy article in the Washington Post. Reyes says the interview was a "screwup." His lack of guile and his ability to admit a mistake are evidence of good character. But his gaffe played into a racist assumption that stretches at least as far back as the 1970s, when California Congressman Ron Dellums, a black from Oakland with a long history of civil rights and union...