Bush to meet with leading Democrat
Hoping concrete action speaks louder than conciliatory words, the new Republican President-elect, George W. Bush, made a high profile meeting with a leading Democrat his first official duty on Friday.



West Asian peace hopes stir despite new violence
Late-night talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders revived slim hopes on Friday of staunching 11 weeks of bloodshed and resuming Wet Asian peacemaking, despite new violence in the West Bank.



Drug firms studying effects of medicines on children
In the 1960s, several newborn babies died after being given an adult antibiotic that their tiny livers could not break down, proving that, when it comes to medicine, children are not just "little adults."



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