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Pickering said his review board had no interest in the controversial aftermath of the Benghazi attacks -- changes made to the “talking points,” which Ambassador Susan Rice relied upon to give the false impression that what happened in Benghazi began as the result of a spontaneous protest in Egypt over an obscure anti-Muslim video:

“I just don’t understand why you wouldn’t have checked into that as part of this investigation,” Schieffer said to Pickering.

“Because the talking points came after the fact,” Pickering responded. “They made no difference at what happened at Benghazi...”

- Pickering: No Need to Ask Clinton About Benghazi, CNSNews.com, May 13, 2013.

3. A study of more than 16,000 European mothers offers some of the strongest evidence yet that breast-feeding makes babies healthier.

Babies whose mothers participated in an intensive breast-feeding program had significantly fewer intestinal infections and eczema.

Other studies have linked breast-feeding with similar benefits and a host of others, including fewer earaches, colds and asthma. But most, if not all, of those studies were after-the-fact research: Doctors looked at data on babies whose mothers had or had not breast-fed them.

For this study, published in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association, hospitals were assigned at random to institute a breast-feeding program.

Researchers have been reluctant to do a randomized breast-feeding study because of concerns about the ethics of withholding a treatment or practice that is widely thought to be beneficial, such as breast-feeding.