FDA approval not guarantee of product safety warns consumer groups
Four national consumer groups said FDA premarket approval does not shield manufacturers from punitive damages after drugs and devices caused over 1,300 deaths and thousands of injuries in a decade. The study accompanied a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing backing federal product liability bills.
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Pope Urges Rich to Create Jobs in Mexico City Address
Pope John Paul II urged wealthy Mexican businessmen to create jobs pay fair wages and protect the environment in Durango as he contrasted the nation’s rich and poor. He had earlier visited a prison yard, blessing inmates including drug traffickers and killers.
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John Paul II
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Mexico City
Aiken Standard Contact and Office Hours Notice
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House Moves Toward Vote On Leave Bill
Supporters push for unpaid family and medical leave requiring 50 plus employee firms to offer job protected time off for serious illness caregiving and newborn adoption cases. Opponents warn of costs and burdens on small business as Bush veto threat looms.
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Test-Tube Tigers Buoy Hopes
In Omaha at Henry Doorly Zoo a Caesarean birth produced two yellow tiger cubs and one white cub from Siberian and Bengal lines. The white cub died soon after birth. the yellow cubs, a male and female, survive and are hand reared. The event signals potential uses of in vitro fertilization for endangered tigers.
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Starrett Heads Toward Georgia to Face Multiple Charges
Serial sex offender Richard D. Starrett may face murder and related charges in Georgia after an extradition hearing. Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty in the Jean McCrea case as Starrett reportedly guided deputies to her body near Peak. he already holds four South Carolina life sentences for earlier abductions and assaults.
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Spending Records To Be Made Public By The Assoc
The Carolina Research and Development Foundation plans to release spending records tied to the University of South Carolina president James Holderman after initial resistance. Legislature members condemned the delay, noting the records are public despite donor anonymity exemptions.
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Greenville News
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Negotiations Yield Tentative Accord on U S Iran Claims
The United States and Iran reached a tentative settlement of about 105 million to resolve over 2,000 U S small claims dating from the 1979 revolution. The package includes about 400 thousand dollars to settle 108 Iranian claims against the United States. The deal aims to clear roughly 16 billion in larger outstanding claims, with final text still to be written, signed, and ratified at The Hague tribunal.
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Peter Hillary reaches Mount Everest summit 37 years after father
Peter Hillary, 36, son of Edmund Hillary, summits Everest via southeastern route with New Zealand team and Nepalese Sherpa Apa Sherpa. The ascent ends a long effort after four attempts, with Edmund Hillary congratulating him by satellite phone.
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