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...consumes acres of space in the CIA's Langley, VA., headquarters, with computers whirring, phones jangling and TV sets turned on 24 hours a day, not only to cnn--the favorite in military command centers--but also to al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based TV network that's usually the first to broadcast videos from Osama bin Laden. The warren of offices and cubicles that make up its main section has grown so large that street signs named after terror purveyors have been erected to guide newcomers. The intersection that draws the most smiles is Saddam Street and Usama Bin Lane...
...controversial study recently suggested that those babies have a higher risk of genetic damage. "We need to have 700 or 800 babies to prove statistically that there is no increase in birth defects [for frozen-egg babies]," says Dr. Michael Opsahl of the Genetics and IVF Institute in Fairfax, Va. Kim doesn't buy that argument: "The bottom line is, Can you produce a baby? We say yes." He adds that the chromosomal tests done on his babies have so far come out normal...
ARRESTED. BRET MICHAEL EDMUNDS, 26, drifter wanted for questioning in the abduction of Elizabeth Smart, 14, from her Salt Lake City, Utah, home; in Martinsburg, W. Va. Edmunds checked in to a hospital there under a phony name after an apparent drug overdose. Officials insist he is not a suspect in the Smart case...
...consumes acres of space in the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters, with computers whirring, phones jangling and TV sets turned on 24 hours a day, not only to CNN-the favorite in military command centers-but also to al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based TV network that's usually the first to broadcast videos from Osama bin Laden. The warren of offices and cubicles that make up its main section has grown so large that street signs named after terror purveyors have been erected to guide newcomers. The intersection that draws the most smiles is Saddam Street and Usama Bin Lane...
...Jerry Daly, 58, who runs his own public-relations firm in Herndon, Va., a first-time, week-long road trip this year to baseball stadiums in Boston, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and New York City will be a way of sharing a love for the game and spending some time with his brother Larry, 61, an Evansville, Ind., lawyer. The brothers used to take their father on a trip every year for his birthday. After their father died two years ago, the two discussed doing some kind of annual outing as a way to remain close. When Jerry gave his brother...