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Aides to Attorney General John Ashcroft have quietly sidetracked a White House--promised study of ballistics fingerprinting, a forensic technique hotly opposed by the gun lobby. Last October, during the Washington sniper shootings, presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer dismissed calls for a national ballistics fingerprint database that would link possible criminals to the unique markings left on spent bullets. But after critics accused the White House of being too beholden to the National Rifle Association, President Bush reversed course and ordered the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to conduct a scientific study of the technique, in which microscopic markings...
...health records of some 24,000 Italian football pros from 1960 to '96 turned up nearly twice the typical rate of liver, pancreatic and colon cancers. Sometimes unwittingly, footballers have used steroids, such as nandrolone, which are known to raise the risk of certain cancers. The now-anecdotal link between athletes and ALS is unexpected, and alarming. The Italian study uncovered eight cases over the past three decades, when the expected incidence of this rare disease, which strikes one in 50,000 people, is less than one. Moreover, Guariniello says, there are reports of at least another 20-plus previously...
...Basically we would need to be assured that the [railway] link will be kept operational for as long as the state needs it to be,” Cahill said of the EOEA’s review process...
...It’s the link to the port, it serves local businesses, it carries products to local consumers at a lower price than can be done by truck,” he said...
...board, however, is just another link between the full membership and the president—and the membership’s opinions matter most, according to many members...