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...Caution and Hope...
...HEADLINE NEWS: For coming within a nanosecond of swallowing a phony report that Bush had died; to his credit, a CNN worker threw caution to the winds, shouting "No! Stop! Stop!" in the newsroom as anchor Don Harrison began to announce the "tragic news involving President Bush...
...joined with some sort of break for lower-and middle-income taxpayers, since it is the wealthy who benefit most from capital-gains relief. Congress may revive the investment tax credit in hopes of boosting spending on factories and equipment. Bush would probably sign on. Experts caution that the ITC would be truly helpful only if the credit is temporary (somehow temporary measures tend to become permanent by default) and targeted to productive investments...
...wake of the Challenger tragedy six years ago, the space agency put a premium on caution -- but only up to a point. NASA's top ranks are dominated by gung-ho former astronauts who are determined to keep launches on a tight schedule. An apparent victim of that policy is FORREST MCCARTNEY, director of the Kennedy Space Center, who was forced out last month after he twice refused to approve a final "go for launch" because of safety concerns. Both flights went smoothly after the problems were fixed -- in one case a hydrogen-fuel leak and in another a warped...
Before Jerome Greer was invited to relocate from St. Louis and take a job as principal of Irving elementary school in Dubuque, Iowa, the personnel director issued a word of caution: no one in the city had the faintest idea how to cut his hair. "This is a white person's town," says Greer, who took the job last July but still gets his hair cut in St. Louis. "On my first day at school, a kid asked me whether I was Bill Cosby...