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Mary Carey, the porn star who made recent headlines for attending dinners with President Bush, has formally kicked off her campaign for California governor. "I don't think Arnold Schwarzenegger's been doing as good of a job as I could be doing," Carey announced in Norwalk, Calif., "so, therefore, I need to be governor of California." Carey made an attempt three years ago for the Golden State's top job in the wake of the recall of Gov. Gray Davis, but she lost to actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger. Though she previously ran as a Democrat, she's now an Independent, and will bypass the...

<p>As the alien-worshiping Raelian sect prepared yesterday to assemble proof that a woman has given birth to the first-ever cloned human baby, some research scientists raised questions about the impartiality and skills of the Boston-based freelance journalist handpicked to verify the claim.</p>

HOLLYWOOD, Florida (Reuters) - A company associated with a group that believes extraterrestrials created mankind claimed Friday that it had produced the first clone of a human being. The company, Clonaid, announced it had created a healthy baby girl who was a clone of the 31-year-old American woman who gave birth to her. No proof was provided for the claim. "I'm very very pleased to announce that the first baby clone is born," Clonaid director Brigitte Boisselier, a former research chemist in France, said at a news conference in Hollywood, north of Miami.