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mClone Systems Inc. is not the only company in which Martha Stewart is involved with Dr. Samuel D. Waksal. She is also an investor, along with a host of Dr. Waksal's friends, business associates and relatives, in a venture fund formed by Dr. Waksal last year known as Scientia Health Group. Now, with Dr. Waksal, the former chief executive of ImClone, having been arrested and charged with insider trading in connection with ImClone, Scientia's future is uncertain, although a spokesman for Dr. Waksal said it continued to operate. The Scientia story casts more light on how Dr. Waksal does business....

<p>RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ Sen. Madison Marye, D-Montgomery, will retire from the Senate this summer after a 29-year career in which his populism and homespun humor made him one of the state's most memorable legislators.</p> <p>Marye, 76, said concerns about his health influenced his decision.</p>

A young Marine restores my faith Golden Pen Award Each Sunday The Orange Register recognizes a letter that eloquently expresses a viewpoint or engenders a debate on a topic of public interest. Today's winner is Ann Baker, a real-estate agent who lives in Huntington Beach It was our normal Thursday morning business meeting at our real-estate office. No big deal. Before the meeting we hung around the bagel table, as usual, with our coffee. He stood aside, looking a little shy and awkward and very young, a new face in a room full of extroverted salespeople. An average looking guy,...

The two guest hosts for Mitch Album on WJR this afternoon will be talking with the oh so lovely (gag!) Donna Brazille, Al Gore's campaign manager. The station is 760 AM (the same as Rush Limbaugh). I wonder if they'll ask her about the "four pillars of the Democrat Party"? This could be entertaining.

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - President Bush said on Tuesday he would try to "work out" an impasse at the United Nations over the International Criminal Court but stuck to his refusal to submit U.S. soldiers to its jurisdiction. Washington is waging a battle to obtain a loophole at the United Nations giving immunity to U.S. nationals serving overseas from the court, which came into force on Monday and was created to prosecute heinous wrongdoing like genocide, war crimes and gross human rights violations. The United States fears politically motivated or frivolous prosecution of its peacekeepers and has threatened to kill off...

Bush Still Opposed to Int'l Court Tue Jul 2, 2:54 PM ET By RON FOURNIER, AP White House Correspondent MILWAUKEE (AP) - President Bush ( news - web sites) vowed Tuesday to keep looking for a way to resolve a dispute with U.S. allies over the world's first permanent war crimes court. But Bush said he would not drop his opposition to the International Criminal Court. "We'll try to work out the impasse, but the one thing we're not going to do is sign on," Bush said during a tour of a local church to promote his domestic agenda. The...

For years, most people have tried to ignore the worrying fact that Anthony Blair has an extremist wife. That is why so many observers still do not understand this Government, or realise how dangerous and damaging it is. Cherie Booth, who is the Prime Minister's closest adviser, is political correctness made flesh. I believe she and her socialworker views are hugely influential in many areas of Government policy. It was not an accident when last November she talked about 'We in the British Government'. As a former Left-wing extremist myself, I know the code. I am sure that she dwells...

REMARKS OF MICHAEL G. NEW MICHAEL NEW HOMECOMING RALLY MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURTHOUSE CONROE, TEXAS JULY 28, 1996 Standing is an important posture in life. People stand when the national anthem is played. When the flag passes, people stand and cover their hearts. On political issues people ask where do you stand, what is your position? For generations, parents in America have taught us how to stand. They have shown us what to stand for and what to stand against. I am here today for no other reason than the fact that I made a stand as a U.S. Army Specialist...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) _ Four priests from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg, including two in active ministry, have been removed after allegedly sexually abusing minors, church officials said. Removed were the Rev. Clark White, pastor of St. Patrick's Church in Brasher Falls; the Rev. Theodore Gillette of St. Paul's Church in Black River; Robert Shurtleff, former pastor of Holy Name Church in Tupper Lake and David Wisniewski, an assistant pastor at the Notre Dame Church in Malone during the mid-1980s. On Monday, church officials released the names of the priests, who were removed last week. Parishioners in the 119-parish...

July 2— BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO announced on Tuesday that General William Kernan would step down as the U.S. Army's Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, and said his post may remain unfilled pending a review of its command structure. NATO has launched a comprehensive review of its military high command structure, which will be approved at a NATO summit in Prague this November.Aimed at streamlining a cumbersome system set up at the height of the Cold War, the review could scrap NATO's Atlantic Command in Norfolk, Virginia, and keep just its European military headquarters outside Mons in southern Belgium.The command overhaul...

If someone wants to put a drug rehab halfway house in my neighborhood, how can I prevent it? Ideas? Resources? Has someone successfully stopped one of these? If so, how? This is in a fairly liberal California jurisdiction. Apparently the project has already received approval at the local level, as the owners have already moved 11 beds into the house, although no junkies have yet moved in. No notice of any kind was given to the adjoining homeowners.

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. SAN DIEGO -- I've tried driving to avoid this," a businessman from Tucson told my wife as Southwest Airlines customers herded themselves toward Flight 1761, bound for Tucson, 400 miles away. "This" was the milling mob at San Diego International Airport preparing for the dash onto the plane to claim a seat, while loudspeakers barked competing flight announcements into the din. "But there's no question that flying to Tucson is easier than driving," noted the businessman, who didn't want to give his name but said he owned a company that made...

NEW YORK - A federal judge in New York declared the death penalty unconstitutional on Monday, saying evidence has shown that there is an ''undue risk'' that a meaningful number of innocent people have been executed. Continues. ============================================================ More foolishness from the bench A week ago, it was the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, with its ruling that the words 'Under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance need to go. So the brainless buffoons on the court toss the whole Pledge out the window. For theophobes -- there's no other word for these clowns -- even mentioning God constitutes...

Taken from "SURVIVALS AND NEW ARRIVALS" There remains, apart from the old Paganism of Asia and Africa, another indirect supporter of Neo-Paganism: a supporter which indeed hates all Paganism but hates the Catholic Church much more: a factor of whose now increasing importance the masses of Europe are not yet aware: I mean Islam. Islam presents a totally different problem from that attached to `ny other religious body opposed to Catholicism. To understand it we must appreciate its origin, character and recent fate. Only then can we further appreciate its possible or probable future relations with enemies of the Catholic...

Donated guns raise eyebrows By JESSICA RUSSELL Staff writer Two firearms given to El Dorado County Sheriff Hal Barker are the cause of close scrutiny by the Grand Jury after a complaint that the guns were supposed to be used for a raffle and were not given as a gift, according to the final report released by the Grand Jury Friday. The complainant, whose name has not been released, told the Grand Jury that he had given the two guns, a Weatherby rifle and a single-barrel shotgun, to Barker to be raffled in order to buy protective vests for the...

Doctors in a Romanian hospital say a pilot scheme to treat patients with vodka to save money on medicine is proving a success.Heart patients have been asked to go each morning to the Recovery Clinic in Cluj Napoca to take their 30 grams of the spirit.Doctors say the alcohol lowers their cholesterol levels for a fraction of the price of specialist medicines.They started an experiment using 60 patients suffering from certain heart conditions. A local company donated 100kg of vodka.Professor Dumitru Zenghea, who coordinates the experiment, told the Libertatea newspaper: "We started this research last year in autumn."We were trying...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ A federal judge has ordered a San Diego importer of juicers to pay a $300,000 fine for waiting too long to report to the government that the juicers were breaking apart and causing injuries. The ruling against Mirama Enterprises Inc., which does business as Aroma Housewares Co., is the first time a court has fined a company for violating federal rules requiring firms to report dangerous product defects, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Tuesday. Past civil penalties the agency has imposed have been part of settlement agreements with companies. ``If the company refuses to settle, we'll...

LONDON (AP) - Police in seven European countries struck Tuesday at a sophisticated child abuse and pornography ring dubbed "Shadowz Brotherhood," arresting 50 people and seizing computer equipment, CD-ROMs and videos, authorities said. Police described the images created and distributed by the group as some of the most shocking they had ever seen. Members of the ring allegedly broadcast live pictures of abuse on the Internet and posted images of children, including babies, being sexually abused and tortured. "In terms of the kind of material they are posting and allowing access to, it's the worst group I have encountered," said...

The European Union is coming under immense pressure to make contingency plans in the Balkans if the US refuses to extend the mandate for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. EU diplomats said they were still hoping for some compromise on Wednesday that would allow the 1,300 UN International Police Task Force (IPTF) to remain in Bosnia. The US has threatened to block extension of the mandate if the Security Council fails to give blanket immunity from prosecution by the new International Criminal Court for US troops abroad. The EU had planned to send 500 special police officers to...

As concerned Long Islanders called the Suffolk County Health Department yesterday to report possible brown recluse spider bites and offer specimens of eight-legged critters trapped in Tupperware, officials asked Mather Memorial Hospital to help them eliminate an even more worrying possibility - anthrax.