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Reporter's Notebook: Parting shots

January 22, 2001 8:00 AM UTC

WASHINGTON - The last week of the Clinton administration started with a flurry of new biotech regulations; it ended with the Bush team giving FDA Commissioner Jane Henney the bum's rush out of office.

The FDA proposed rules on two politically charged topics: gene therapy and genetically modified foods...