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...healthcare system. The White House said it would propose that the government pay 20% or 30% of the medical benefits of early retirees; the figure had been 80% in earlier proposals. The Administration also indicated that its plan would produce fewer savings than had been hoped, reducing the deficit $70 billion to $80 billion by the year 2000, not $91 billion. Officials expect to deliver the legislation by the end of the month...
...style pressure in their season-long chase of the Giants -- a vexing road tour that may have left them emotionally exhausted by the time their show opened in Philly. Karma certainly hung over the Braves like crepe in the pivotal fifth game, when they rallied from a three-run deficit in the bottom of the ninth, had a man on third base with one out and the profligate Williams on the mound -- and couldn't force home the winning run. That came to the Phillies in the 10th, off the bat of Dykstra, a nerveless sort who gorges on pressure...
...FMRP tends to shut down and production of the other proteins spins out of control. The brain develops too many connections, or synapses, many of them immature and flimsy. The resulting symptoms range from learning disorders to mental retardation and often include autism, epilepsy, anxiety disorders and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). "Fragile X is a disorder of excess," explains neuroscientist Mark Bear of MIT. Autism in general seems to involve excessive connections in the brain. Bear and others suspect that drugs that could attack this problem in FXS patients could also prove useful in other types of autism...
...sits, unused, in my car; my home is happily unrefrigerated. But given the energy mess we're in, I can now gild my personal preference with a patina of high-mindedness: air-conditioning is bad for the planet, and for national security, and for our balance-of-payments deficit. Unfortunately, it is not as bad as I'd like it to be - in part because not all of our electricity is provided by fossil fuels (although coal does predominate). And also because air-conditioning represents a relatively small slice of our energy use, an estimated...
...Export Re Justin Fox's "A Port That Exports": you don't wipe away an $800 billion annual trade deficit by further weakening the dollar, exporting raw materials and wishing for good luck [June 9]. It takes real change in trade policy - labor and environmental standards that will raise living standards at home and abroad, better guarantees for safe food and toy imports, and no more NAFTAs and other corporate trade deals. We need more trade - but under a very different set of rules that work for our families and our communities. Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senator, Avon, Ohio...