August 10, 2000
Racial and ethnic gap found in aging study
While older Americans can expect longer, healthier lives, minority groups are not experiencing the same improvements, researchers find.
Chavez's Iraq visit tests U.S. patience
The United States will have to learn to put up with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who was democratically elected.
National briefs
Ford released from Philadelphia hospital
Book details doctors' medical offenses
WASHINGTON -- Horror stories of physicians having sex with their patients, operating on incorrect body parts, even placing an amputated human foot in a crab trap, fill the pages of a newly released book listing more than 21,000 doctors -- about 2.5 percent of practitioners nationwide -- who have been disciplined by state medical boards.
World briefs
Earthquake rattles Mexican coast
Lebanon stakes claim to south
MARJAYOUN, Lebanon -- Lebanese government forces rolled into southern Lebanon before dawn Wednesday for the first time in 22 years.
National headlines
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Decision 2000
Bush Pledges Iraq Arms Hunt Will Continue
'Partial Birth' Abortion Ban Passes House
