Word: scooped
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...been your usual drug approval process. At the White House, where information is power and officials pride themselves on having the inside scoop, virtually everyone learned that the Food and Drug administration approved the revolutionary abortion pill called mifepristone from - of all places - CNN. President Clinton learned about it only moments earlier from Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala. And Shalala got the news by telephone from FDA commissioner Jane Henney - after the FDA made the announcement public...
...have ever seen in the wild. Four-year-olds, they hang out and fool around, rather like human teenagers. Then five more bears stroll out of the forest--a female with a golden cub and another mother with two cubs. The mothers nurse the 18-month-old cubs and scoop up some of the hundreds of thousands of salmon on their way up the inlet to spawn and die. Then another bear appears, followed by tiny triplets. This excites my guide, Owen Nevin, a Utah State University doctoral student whose subject is inlet bears, even more than it does...
...SCOOP-FREE OLYMPICS Planning to watch streaming video of those tense synchronized-diving heats on the Net? Think again. The International Olympic Committee, at the behest of its well-heeled television licensees (principally NBC), has barred all video footage of the Games from the Web. Why? NBC won't be broadcasting any events live from Sydney, and the network chieftains don't want to be undercut by enterprising Webmasters. Now if only they'd ban those annoying Olympic mascots...
...good ice cream, and Ben and Jerry's said that if we provided the people to scoop it, they would donate enough for the event," Roiff said...
...Championship. The series is a national obsession, played in front of sell-out crowds and attracting more TV viewers every summer than any other sporting event. Families uproot themselves so their sons might play for a school with a chance of getting to Koshien; those who make it often scoop up dirt from the field as a souvenir...