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PRESS DIGEST - Washington Post - August 5
05 Aug 2008 04:56:47 GMT
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Washington Post included the following items on its front page on Aug 5. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE - Three days before his arrival in Beijing for the Olympics, President Bush offered a mixed assessment of China's role in the world, praising its efforts to curb the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran but expressing disappointment over its role in failed trade talks.

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The Bush administration informed all foreign intelligence and law enforcement teams visiting their citizens held at Guantanamo Bay that video and sound from their meetings would be recorded, according to documents obtained by the Post.

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The blood test that millions of men undergo each year to check for prostate cancer leads to so much unnecessary anxiety, surgery and complications that doctors should stop testing elderly men, and it remains unclear whether the screening is worthwhile for younger men, a federal task force concluded.

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Bruce Ivins, the government's leading suspect in the 2001 anthrax killings, borrowed from a bioweapons lab that fall freeze-drying equipment that allows scientists to quickly convert wet germ cultures into dry spores, according to sources briefed on the case.
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