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Foundation sets radical goal: Giving away all its money
While many groups spend the minimum required, the Whitaker Foundation is depleting its multimillion-dollar endowment in hopes of advancing medical science.

Is it safe?
Farmers say the U.S.-sponsored program to kill drug crops causes health problems. Officials say there is no evidence but promise studies.

Sara Fritz
Perhaps it's time to embrace Washington -- good and bad
WASHINGTON -- As President Bush was traveling throughout the American heartland last week, condemning the ways of Washington, thousands upon thousands of people from the heartland were visiting here, filling the restaurants, crowding the subway and standing in long, sun-scorched lines at the Washington Monument.National headlines
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