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Despite speculation that Bill Clinton would move to Hollywood when he left politics, it is another Southerner who seems likely to make the leap when his time in Washington comes to a close. Republican Senator FRED THOMPSON of Tennessee is said to be negotiating for the role of the as-yet-unnamed district attorney on the NBC show Law & Order. Thompson, who is retiring from the Senate at the end of his term in January, had begun an acting career before moving to Washington, appearing in such films as The Hunt for Red October and In the Line of Fire...
...Shehhi crashed their planes into the World Trade Center, O'Neill called his son and a girlfriend from outside the Towers to say he was safe. Then he rushed back in. His body was identified 10 days later. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson, Douglas Waller and Michael Weisskopf/Washington; Hannah Bloch and Tim McGirk/Islamabad; Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas; Wendy Cole and Marguerite Michaels/ Chicago; Bruce Crumley/Paris; James Graff/Brussels; David Schwartz/Phoenix; and Michael Ware/Kabul
...prosecution of longtime Bush buddies (and supporters) such as former CEO Ken Lay. "There hasn't been anyone in handcuffs from Enron, and we don't know why," Senate majority leader Tom Daschle said last week. While declining to comment on the specifics, Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, who heads the corporate-fraud strike force, said that "some cases are more complex than others." Even with prosecutors laboring on the Enron Task Force, getting a handle on the company's complicated structure and litany of off-balance-sheet partnerships is no small feat...
...most powerful mosquito repellents on the market. (Doctors and the CDC recommend using sprays containing DEET.) Towns and cities across the country are also waging war, showering pesticides and larvacides onto vulnerable areas and distributing informative pamphlets door-to-door. Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced the government was providing $10 million to study and fight the spread of West Nile virus, and scientists and researchers have descended on Louisiana, hoping to capture a few of the virulent bugs and root out more specifics on the disease...
...BEHAVIOR Spanking may be an effective way to get a child to behave right away, but research from the National Center for Children in Poverty warns that it could lead to even more severe behavioral problems in the future. Psychologist Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff analyzed 88 different studies on corporal punishment and found that the more often or harshly a child was hit, the more likely the youngster was to grow up to be aggressive, antisocial or abusive toward his or her own kids...