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...mail-in urine sample is bound to spark a storm of controversy. Customers need only place a urine sample in a plastic package included with the kit, mail it in to a government-certified laboratory, and, after one to three days, dial a 1-800 number with their identification code to learn the results. While Brown, a Maryland-based clinical psychologist experienced in substance abuse treatment, insists that the code will protect customers' anonymity, critics charge that confidentiality after the fact isn?t the main issue. Privacy is the issue, when parents and schools confront children with demands for urine...
...shopping is at least democratic; the sale of tickets to special Inaugural events is not. Democratic donors won the right to purchase the best seats at the parade, the balls and the gala based in part on how much they gave. Each invitation came with a special eight-digit code that enforced the carefully prearranged pecking order. Who got the richest invitations? Those donors who have, as spokesman David Seldin put it, "shown an ability to spend...
First, then, the tax code should be reinterpreted--and the President should urge Congress to do so. Might he? "I'm not a fan of the Big Bang school of policymaking," says Raines, whose view is shared by Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. "I'm for economic self-interest working its will." There's nothing wrong with that, especially in a free-market system. But sometimes self-interest needs a push...
...Apple devotees last week finally got what they'd been waiting for: assurances that despite rumors to the contrary, the next generation of Macintosh computers will run most of the old software. The bad news is that it will be at least a year before the new system, code-named Rhapsody, is ready for public release...
MOSCOW, Russia: New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, meet your equal. Responding to a traffic altercation three weeks ago in which diplomats from Russia and Belarus claim to have been battered by New York police, powerful Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov recently oversaw a special operation, code-named "Foreigner," in which city traffic police zoomed in on foreign-owned cars, levying fines and confiscating license plates. Roughly 1,000 cars were stopped by city traffic cops, known by their Russian acronym GAI (gai-EE), during the two-day operation, which ended Thursday. Famed throughout Moscow for their ability to disperse fines...