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1. ‘ENCHANTED’ —
SNOW WHITE
IN NEW YORK
DATEBOOK: Fairy tale characters get
real, leave cartoon world behind
PEDOMETER POWER: A PATH TO A HEALTHIER LIFE
People who set daily walking goals and use a pedometer go farther in life than
those who don’t — a whole mile a day farther. Along the way, they lose a little
weight and lower their blood pressure, Stanford’s medical school finds. A4
In an upcoming book, former White House spokesman
Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice Presi-
dent Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public
about the role of aides in leaking the identity of a CIA
operative. He writes that “I had unknowingly passed
along false information.” A6
NATION/WORLD
New accusation in CIA leak
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LAST-MINUTE
THANKSGIVING
FOOD: A guide to fixing the feast,
whether you’ve started or not
WEB EXTRA: For videos and more,
go to sfgate.com/thanksgiving
SPORTS
49ERS
OWNER
SAYS SHE
PLANS
CHANGES
OPEN MIC: Readers continue
to weigh in on the indictment
of Barry Bonds at
sfgate.com/podcasts
PINOY POD: Filipino boxing
greats past and present.
sfgate.com/podcasts
MOVIES WITH MICK LASALLE:
“I’m Not There” and “Margot at
the Wedding,” plus listener
questions. sfgate.com/podcasts
WEATHER
Mostly sunny.
Highs: 60 to 66.
Lows: 33 to 47. D8
Index is on Page A2
By Sabin Russell
Chronicle Medical Writer
Separate teams of scientists on
two continents revealed Tuesday
that they have created stem cells
from human skin cells — a devel-
opment that eventually could al-
low researchers to sidestep the
contentious moral issues that have
hobbled early studies in a promis-
ing field.
The startling breakthrough was
hailed by parties on all sides of the
stem cell debate because it raised
the prospect that the controversial
destruction of human embryos
and the need to harvest eggs from
women donors might one day no
longer be needed.
“This has the potential to re-
shape the politics and science of
stem cell research,’’ said Jesse Rey-
nolds, a policy analyst for the Cen-
ter for Genetics and Society, an
Oakland-based organization that
favors stem cell studies.
The Rev. Thomas Berg, execu-
tive director of the Westchester In-
stitute, a Catholic ethics think tank
in Thornwood, N.Y., said the new
technique described in the two pa-
pers is a major advance that passes
ethical muster. “This is almost a
magical moment,’’ he said. “We
Viruses ferry four genes into the skin cell. These genes will make
the cell capable of producing any tissue type in the human body.
Embryonic-like stem cell
Heart
cells
Brain
cells
Pancreas
cells
Blood
cells
Liver
cells
Cells are chemically
treated to produce:
Embryonic
development begins
Traditional therapeutic cloning method
New stem cell method
Skin cell
Donor cell nucleus
Donor /
patient
Female unfertilized eggs
are used to grow embryos
Stem cells without embryos
Two different lab teams have made human skin cells take on the powers of embryonic stem cells
without using unfertilized human eggs or destroying embryos.
Sources: Journal Science; journal Cell Associated Press
Stem cells from human skin cells
— scientists, ethicists hail advance
1 CELLS: Page A14
By Matthai Kuruvila
Chronicle Staff Writer
The U.S. Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development has
asked federal investigators to re-
view allegations of a wide-ranging
welfare fraud scheme at Oakland’s
Your Black Muslim Bakery, offi-
cials said Tuesday.
HUD Regional Director Rich-
ard Rainey asked the agency’s in-
spector general to begin an inves-
tigation in response to a story in
The Chronicle on Sunday report-
ing that, for decades, the late Yu-
suf Bey allegedly directed his fol-
lowers to defraud state and federal
aid programs for poor people.
Bey might have pocketed mil-
lions of dollars over the life of the
scheme, The Chronicle reported,
quoting pretrial testimony in a
negligence lawsuit filed against
Alameda County.
Rainey was concerned by the
report that Bey’s scheme targeted
BAKERY
FRAUD
PROBE
SOUGHT
THE ASSASSINATION
OF CHAUNCEY BAILEY
Feds asked to look into alleged
scam targeting housing program
1 BAKERY: Page A14
Yusuf Bey
G
1 Interactive
graphic de-
picting The
Chronicle’s
coverage of
Your Black
Muslim Bakery
and the slaying
of Chauncey
Bailey:
sfgate.com/
bailey
1 Inside: Cleanup efforts around the bay have
been so successful that few volunteers are
needed on most beaches this weekend. A15
1 In Bay Area: A 9-year-old Berkeley girl sets
out to save birds — and raises thousands of
dollars in a few days. B1
G
1 Find all of The Chronicle’s coverage of the
oil spill at www.sfgate.com/oilspill.
By Brian Hoffman
Chronicle Staff Writer
Nearly 100,000 pounds of live
Dungeness crab apparently
caught by Oregon fishermen near
the Farallones are headed to Bay
Area seafood wholesalers for dis-
tribution to consumers — a major
blow to local commercial fisher-
men.
Hundreds of fishermen in San
Francisco, Bodega Bay and Half
Moon Bay have been desperately
trying to keep untested crab off
dinner plates in the wake of the
CoscoBusanfuelspillinSanFran-
cisco Bay. They have pledged not
to harvest crab until the state con-
firms the Dungeness are not con-
taminated.
The state Office of Environ-
mental Health Hazard Assessment
has taken crabs for testing from
ocean waters outside the Golden
Gate. Results are due Nov. 28.
The Department of Fish and
Game says that Dungeness caught
outside a closed area of coastline
between San Mateo and Marin
counties is safe to eat.
Most Bay Area seafood whole-
Mystery of huge crab catch
SAN FRANCISCO BAY OIL SPILL
Oregon boats offload 100,000 pounds at night in Monterey — some S.F. buyers refuse it
Mark Costantini / The Chronicle
Gino Pennisi, whose father owns Royal Seafood, unloads crab from out-of-state commercial fishing vessels early Tuesday in Monterey.
1 CRAB: Page A15
1 Politics: The discovery has
reshaped the acrimonious political
debate that has raged for years
over stem cell research. A14
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