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...Capitol Hill, lawmakers are pushing various compensation packages to wean most, if not all, soldiers off food stamps. McCain has proposed the none too subtly named "Remove Service Members from Food Stamps Act of 2000." It would pay a $180 monthly allowance to food-stamp-eligible soldiers. "We must end the days of a 'food-stamp Army' once and for all," McCain says. "Our military personnel and their families deserve better...
...Would you recommend this class?' I said in capitol letters, 'Absolutely not. The professor is uninsightful, boring and a dork...
Sunday's march on the nation's Capitol by supporters of gay and lesbian rights was an important step to call attention to the efforts of equal rights advocates nationwide...
Week Four--African leaders met in Abuja, the capitol of Nigeria, to discuss ways of fighting malaria. The World Bank suggested that it might be possible to find $300 to $500 million a year for this struggle--only a beginning, but definitely noteworthy...
This week, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who has called stem cells "a veritable fountain of youth," will convene a hearing on Capitol Hill to review both the science and the ethics of the research. "Finally there is a very possible solution to conquering diseases that were always thought incurable," says actor Christopher Reeve, who has been paralyzed since his spinal cord was crushed in a fall from a horse in 1995, and who, along with former Senator Bob Dole and others, is scheduled to testify. "This research should go forward as fast as possible," Reeve says (see his accompanying...