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The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday, Dec. 11:
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Christmas came early for drug maker Eli Lilly & Co.
Under the corporate tree were two tiny paragraphs wrapped discreetly in the 475-page Homeland Security bill signed into law late last month by President Bush. They shelter the pharmaceutical giant from a growing storm of litigation over a mercury-laden preservative called thimerosal, which was added to vaccines for 60 years. Two days after the bill was signed, the Bush administration asked a federal court to seal documents contained in hundreds of claims filed against Lilly. That would prevent the documents…