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Ex-Clinton Cabinet official pleads guilty

By wire services
Published November 30, 2005

Former national security adviser Sandy Berger pleaded guilty Tuesday to reckless driving after an officer clocked him at 88 mph in a 55-mph zone. A judge fined him $250. Berger did not speak during his brief appearance before Judge Richard Horan in Fairfax County General District Court. His lawyer entered the guilty plea on his behalf. Berger, who served as national security adviser under former President Bill Clinton, was ticketed Sept. 10 while heading east on Interstate 66. Berger was required to report the ticket to the probation office of U.S. District Court because he is on two years' probation for smuggling classified documents out of the National Archives last year. Berger admitted destroying some of the documents while he was preparing to testify before the Sept. 11 commission last year, and then lying about it. The documents he took contained information on terror threats in the United States during the 2000 millennium celebration.

THE UNUSUAL

Fatter buttocks can hinder injections

Fatter rear ends are causing many drug injections to miss their mark, requiring longer needles to reach buttock muscle, researchers said on Monday. Standard-sized needles failed to reach the buttock muscle in 23 of 25 women whose rears were examined after what was supposed to be an intramuscular injection of a drug. Two-thirds of the 50 patients in the study did not receive the full dosage of the drug, which instead lodged in the fat tissue of their buttocks, researchers from Meath Hospital in Dublin said in a presentation to the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. Besides patients receiving less than the correct drug dosage, medications that remain lodged in fat can cause infection or irritation, researcher Victoria Chan said. "There is no question that obesity is the underlying cause. We have identified a new problem related, in part, to the increasing amount of fat in patients' buttocks," Chan said.

U.S. troops fly cheetahs to safety

U.S. troops flew two endangered cheetah cubs to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Tuesday after instigating their rescue from a remote village where a restaurant owner had held them captive and abused them. The male and female cubs - whom the soldiers named Scout and Patch - were released on the grounds of the Ethiopian president's official residence after their 680-mile journey from the eastern hamlet of Gode.

UPDATE

China chemical spill

Experts warned Tuesday that dangers from a huge chemical spill in Harbin, China, could last for years because of toxins - including cancer-causing benzene - imbedded in ice and mud at the bottom of the Songhua River.

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