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...badly does Congress want to nix a national ID card? Not very. Late in the evening last Wednesday, Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) tried to yank spending for a Department of Transportation ID card proposal that would compel states to encode Social Security numbers (and possibly digitized fingerprints) into driver's licenses. Barr's ploy didn't work. Democrats defended the plan as a way to let immigrants prove they're citizens. Other Republicans suggested Barr try to forge a compromise with transportation bureaucrats, which he'll do in a meeting this week...
What's emerging is a Barr-backed plan that would just delay the proposal a year or so -- which is unacceptable to opponents of any national ID plan. "Certainly we advocate a complete repeal. Anything short of that would be a defeat," says Patrick Poole, deputy director of the Free Congress Foundation's Center for Technology Policy. Poole has found an ally in Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who's introduced legislation to rescind the Transportation Department plan. Paul blames Congress for passing the law in the first place, then trying to shift the blame to the Transportation Department...
With the market hitting choppy water, some mutual funds are trying a balancing act. Firms like Barr Rosenberg and Euclid Advisers have launched market-neutral funds, which bet equal amounts of a portfolio on stocks to rise and fall. The funds are touted as a low-risk investment, but the high fees and taxes--and relatively low returns--extract a high price for security...
Even with the acceptance of the new peace agreement, the veneer of civility is far too thin to think the Troubles are completely in the past. "Remember," says Glen Barr, a former Protestant politician who heads one of the most progressive self-help community groups, "you have nearly three generations of people in this country who have gone through a war with their neighbors as their enemy...
GERM WARFARE Scientists studying the Epstein-Barr virus in immunosuppressed patients may have figured out how viruses are linked to tumors. Cancer therapies targeting viruses could result...