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...must cut taxes, we should direct the cuts to those who would benefit most. By keeping working families afloat and assisting the unemployed, we would avert some of the worst aspects of a contracting economy: rampant crime and a national sense of failure. The proper tax cuts would fulfill a moral obligation to give those most in need a helping hand. It’s time that President Bush and his Republican colleagues stick up for the some of the ordinary folks who voted for them, rather than continuing to line the pockets of the wealthiest Americans...
...spectrum antibiotic. Overusing these drugs, physicians have long warned, will permit resistant strains to flourish. One of the scariest examples is the appearance in 1997 of a particularly potent strain of staph bacteria resistant to vancomycin, which used to be the last line of defense. It was partly to avert such a catastrophe that the CDC made its decision last week recommending the switch to doxycycline, which is seen as equally effective. "It would certainly be healthier to have a better balance of antibiotics in use in the population now," says CDC director Dr. Jeffrey Koplan. Healthier...
...while Ridge works toward long-term solutions, he should steer his agency away from immediate policy decisions, which are better left to experienced groups like FEMA. With threat of another terrorist catastrophe growing every minute, we cannot depend on a hastily constructed agency led by a security outsider to avert disaster...
...Taliban Afghanistan remains a geopolitical chessboard on which the interests of Iran, Russia, China, Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the U.S. all compete. Even as it balanced all of these competing interests, Secretary General Kofi Annan warned that the U.N. would have to move with uncharacteristic nimbleness to avert a tragedy which, he said, would make the Congo and the Balkans look like child's play...
...Golden Eagles began to put pressure on the goal, and Harvard’s defense was lucky to avert several close calls cleared right in front of the line. The Crimson also benefitted from some inaccurate shots by Marquette early in the second half...