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PHILADELPHIA – In the final weeks of Philadelphia’s heated 2003 mayoral campaign, FBI (search) agents crept into City Hall and installed a microphone above the mayor’s desk. For months, they had been gathering evidence that city contracts were being traded for campaign contributions. They wanted to know whether Mayor John …

WASHINGTON – President Bush said he has a deep desire to see Lebanon secure religious and political freedom as he welcomed a leading Lebanese Christian into the Oval Office on Wednesday. Maronite Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir (search), head of the 900,000-member Maronite Catholic Church, has been a longtime critic of Syria’s …

People who go in for lip piercing (search) may get more than they bargained for. Besides attracting attention, they could also wind up with receding gums (search). Lip piercing can lead to receding gums and may make the problem worse, say researchers from Ohio State University. They compared the gums …