Cloning Breakthrough; Steroid Indictments; Atkins Changing Way Americans Eat? - Part 2.

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ROGERS: If this is a man under siege, in jeopardy of losing his job, it was hard to tell at a previously scheduled investor conference Thursday.

PAUL KIM, MEDIA ANALYST: I think Mr. Eisner carried this very well. He was very relaxed, but confident and very articulate. And it showed through, at least the institutional investors, that this is a team that's working well and everything's kind of coming together for the companies.

ROGERS: And that was the story Disney wanted to sell: The company has never been stronger. Comcast was a punch line.

EISNER: Acquisitions. Oh, we're buying Comcast.

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ROGERS: Eisner critics, who have been sharpening their knives for years, are hardly laughing. But Eisner, the longest serving CEO of a Dow 30 company, told me he's not taking the attacks personally.

EISNER: When you're up there on that pedestal, you've got to expect people are going to take shots at you. And, at the end of the day, quality family entertainment and performance, put those two things together and all the criticism goes away.

ROGERS: Making Comcast go away might be a taller order.

Jen Rogers, CNN Financial News, Orlando, Florida.

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BROWN: A few other bits of business now, starting with Ted. United's new budget division got going today. Uni-Ted. Get it? United created it to take on the likes of Southwest, JetBlue and Delta's entry, Song. On Capitol Hill, the Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan, once again, he expected employment to grow in the coming months and inflation to remain low, which didn't exactly move the markets, because, in truth, Mr. Greenspan said exactly the same thing yesterday. So investors sold a bit today, after buying big yesterday.

Still to come on the program, the Atkins effect, changing the way Americans eat amid controversy over whether it harmed the man who created it.

We'll take a break first. From Atlanta, this is NEWSNIGHT.

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BROWN: Swimmer drives with shark on his leg. Tomorrow night is pizza night for most of the NEWSNIGHT staff and topping night for some. They're the ones, and they know who they are, or perhaps it's should be, we know who we are, picking the pepperoni off the crust, and the cheese and the anchovies, too, anything to avoid a single evil carb. For them and millions more, Dr. Atkins may be gone, but his diet lives on, because, according to a number of studies out now, it does work, which has done little to end the debate over the high-fat, low-carb diet or the man himself.

Here's CNN's Adaora Udoji.

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ADAORA UDOJI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Diet guru Dr. Robert Atkins built an estimated $200 million empire…