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Washington Ð Meat or milk derived from healthy cloned farm animals appears safe to eat, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said. But the FDA wants public reactions before it decides if cloned farm animals will require government approval before being sold as food. A decision is expected to take another year. Tokyo Ð A Japanese woman believed to be the oldest person in the world died yesterday, city officials in her home town said. She was 116. Born in 1887, Kamato Hongo was recognized as the world's oldest living person by the Guinness Book of Records after the death last March of American Maude Farris-Luse at age 115. Los Angeles Ð A lawyer was wounded in a California courthouse shooting captured by television crews covering a hearing in the murder case against actor Robert Blake. Modesto, California Ð Laci Peterson's sister testified that Scott Peterson said he had golf plans on Christmas Eve, throwing into question his story about going fishing the day his pregnant wife vanished. Meanwhile Peterson, 31, told police he last saw his wife about 9:30 a.m. on Christmas Eve as he left to go fishing near Berkeley. Preliminary hearings are being held to determine if Peterson will stand trial for the slaying of his 27-year-old wife and unborn son.
