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bulge the FDA is on the verge of approving the first anti-obesity pill in more than 20 years. But critics warn it is no magic solution, and say it can have serious side effects.

plans to withdraw its diplomats from Sudan. Sudan is upset with the U.S. decision, denying U.S. allegations that it can't protect U.S. personnel from terrorist threats.

involving a man whose grown daughter suddenly remembered how her father killed her childhood playmate 20 years ago has. His 1990 conviction was overturned in 1994, and now this case of repressed memories is being retried.

-- fat substitute called Olestra is touted by manufacturer Proctor and Gamble as virtually calorie-free, but critics warn Olestra does have its side-effects. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of Olestra in some snack foods.

posed to homes and businesses in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Arkansas by the illegal, indoor use of an agricultural pesticide. Nearly a thousand people have been moved out of their homes because methyl parathion was sprayed inside to kill cockroaches.

the federal budget among economic thinkers. Economists generally agree that reducing the budget deficit is a good idea. They disagree fundamentally on how much and how fast the deficit should be reduced, and on the means of reducing it.

more efficient lights and motors is becoming a big business in the corporate world. He visits a glass factory in North Carolina that's cut more than a million dollars from its annual budget...while improving productivity.

to a second term as President of the United States. Yesterday's celebration was more subdued than the one four years ago. The President appealed to Congressional leaders to set aside 'extreme partisanship,' and tackle the nation's most urgent problems.

which the state of Florida will try to help resolve. At Miami's request, Governor Lawton Chiles has sent advisors to assist the city to bring the budget into balance, as required by state law. Miami faces a $68-million shortfall in the current year.

the Persian Gulf War to try and get further information about illnesses connected to the destruction of an Iraqi chemical weapons depot in 1991, which is now believed to have contained nerve gas.