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...over. A Texas grand jury has indicted three of his close aides on charges of funneling illegal corporate money to Texas state elections. The House ethics panel was asked to look at DeLay's involvement in the scheme but decided to wait for the Texas prosecutor to finish his probe. And Senate and federal grand jury investigations of lobbyist and DeLay fund raiser Jack Abramoff--who allegedly has defrauded Indian tribes of tens of millions of dollars in inflated fees--are exploring his boasts of access to DeLay. People close to DeLay have been subpoenaed, say government sources. --By Viveca...
...members of the group, Aaron (Carruth) and Abe (David Sullivan), decide to probe what potential their creation might have: They explore the commercial possibilities of time-travel for a few hours each day, encounter dreadful mishaps in a Scooby Doo-esque fashion and finally, things end quite badly, with the audience, plot and characters in a state of sheer confusion...
...works for three days at a time before needing to be changed. The continuous sugar-level readings are sent to a small receiver kept in a pocket or purse, and originate from the patch's hairlike filament that penetrates ever so slightly beneath the skin. But it doesn't probe deep enough to draw blood. Instead it measures glucose levels in the body's interstitial fluid. These readings often lag behind actual blood-sugar levels by about 15 minutes, but experts say that's still plenty of time to spot a problem. Navigator's repeated readings let patients know when...
...heart procedures go, a "catheter ablation" is good news: using local anesthetic, a tiny probe is threaded through the arteries to the interior of the heart, where it zaps a few cells that have occasionally been making the heart beat too fast. British Prime Minister Tony Blair had one last Friday and was back at Downing Street by dinnertime, still planning to fly to Africa for a conference this week, and facing a better than 90% chance that his irregular rhythm won't recur. But Blair's encounter with the doctors is like the other good news he's been...
...There must be something in Shakespeare’s life that we can probe to account for his mastery,” Greenblatt says. “The life that matters to us is the life that explains to us how he did what...