However, evidence emerged in the Andersen trial that Mr Fastow had rejected a particular accounting treatment for some of the off-balance sheet partnerships, adopting instead something that did not conform with American accounting rules.

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Doctors from the University of California and University of Utah have carried out a small trial of 13 women on the product, made by the company Balance Pharmaceuticals.

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The attorney-general's attempt to gag the press in an affair of such political importance has sparked a fierce debate, once again, over how to balance the often competing interests of press freedom, a defendant's right to a fair trial and the public's right to see guilty men punished.

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