| Research showing that bald mice can grow hair after being implanted with a type of stem cell could lead to a cure for baldness, a group of scientists says. |
So much for security. And the privacy of your belongings....
| A passenger on Israel's El Al airlines got a complimentary gift on a flight home from Germany -- a pistol that security guards slipped into his suitcase, an Israeli newspaper said Sunday.
El Al personnel, the Haaretz daily reported, sometimes sneak fake guns into the bags of unwitting passengers to test if security staff can spot them. One replica went undetected and was found by the startled passenger when he unpacked at home. |
Security for U.S. train travel is too impractical....
| Sweeping baggage checks for passengers on the "very open" U.S. rail transit systems are impractical despite the specter of terrorist threat, a high-level Bush administration official said Monday.
"I don't know that we ought to apply the same strategy that we're using with the airlines," said Asa Hutchinson, undersecretary of homeland security. "Is it practical to have magnetometers for everyone who gets on a subway? Is it practical to search every bag that goes on?" |
Bush's record campaign haul isn't enough. He needs your help...
| President Bush has raised a record $160 million-plus, but it's still not enough to counter his opponents' television advertising.
In an e-mail Monday, Bush told prospective donors that every dollar they give will help him finance ads in 18 battleground states as he wages his campaign against Democratic nominee-to-be John Kerry. |
And you won't be getting any information on Bush's military records out of the National Guard....
| At the National Guard Bureau, now headed by a Bush appointee from Texas, officials last week said they were under orders not to answer questions...."If it has to do with George W. Bush, the Texas Air National Guard or the Vietnam War, I can't talk with you," said Charles Gross, chief historian for the National Guard Bureau in Washington, D.C.
Rose Bird, Freedom of Information Act officer for the bureau, said her office stopped taking records requests on Bush's military service in mid-February and is directing all inquiries to the Pentagon. She would not provide a reason. |
It gets better...
| "Failure to accomplish" the medical exam "can imply that Bush did not show up, or he was examined, and a foreign substance was discovered in his blood," Moore argues in his book.
When pressed by the national media during the 2000 presidential campaign, Bush said he quit drinking in 1986 and hadn't used any illegal drugs since 1974. The White House records revealed for the first time that as a teenager, Bush had four citations on his driving record for speeding and collisions, which would have required a special enlistment waiver for him to get into the Air Guard. No waiver, however, was found in the records released by the White House, USA Today reported. |
And better...
| Bush's file was scrubbed for embarrassing information, [Retired Lt. Col. Bill L] Burkett alleges, at the direction of Daniel James III. James headed the Texas National Guard, and Burkett was his chief military adviser when Bush was governor of Texas.
After becoming president in 2000, Bush appointed James to head the National Guard Bureau in Washington, D.C., which oversees all state Air Guard operations. |
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