1.   A new fraud-proof credit card has begun trials in the region.

2.   Amgen Inc. began human trials Thursday for a new blood-clotting drug designed to treat cancer patients with a condition that leaves them vulnerable to severe hemorrhaging.

3.   And AOL announced that it was beginning trials of a new high-speed Internet service, called a Digital Subscriber Line, in five cities this year.

4.   And it has signed deals with telephone companies, like British Telecom, to begin trials next year.

5.   As the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda begins genocide trials in Arusha, Tanzania, Akayesu is the first man in the dock.

6.   A Seattle company has already begun clinical trials to test the safety of monoclonal antibodies that block such penetration.

7.   About a month ago, it began a trial of the digital technology that lets customers use the same hand-held radio to make cellular calls and two-way radio broadcasts.

8.   After watching other new biopharmaceutical companies struggle for years to make their own discoveries, win patents and begin clinical trials, Todaro is taking an alternate route.

9.   British Telecommunications Plc will begin a trial of video-on-demand and interactive television services that puts it into direct competition with media companies.

10.   But it has yet to begin clinical trials of any drugs developed using its genomics technology.