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...doubt improving those chances for victory on the Senate floor was the steep and treacherous climb McCain-Feingold still faces on the Hill. What has McCain won? A long and bitter rematch in the House, where Dennis Hastert and Dick Gephardt are both starting to stammer and Tom DeLay is loaded for bear. Shays-Meehan, McCain-Feingold's House doppleganger, always cruised when it had nowhere to go - now the knives will be drawn. And if the twin bills don't match up exactly when they're through - down to the last amendment? McCain gets a reconciliation fight, with...
...Navy. He was taken off sea duty in the Pacific and transferred back to the States during World War II after he failed a hearing test. But only 16% of physicians routinely screen for hearing loss. And even after people realize they are having trouble hearing, many delay--on average 10 years--before seeking help...
...Audiologists caution against waiting too long, however. "It's much easier to get used to a hearing aid when the loss is mild and you're younger," says Susan Rezen, an audiology professor at Worcester State College in Massachusetts and co-author of Coping with Hearing Loss. "If you delay too long, you're taking the chance that your brain may get used to not processing speech...
...expensive, although the Occupational Safety and Health Administration estimated that they would actually save $9.1 billion a year when the cost of wages and productivity lost to injuries was factored in. Bush didn't call a single lawmaker to lobby for the repeal, but House majority whip Tom DeLay thanked him anyway, attributing the victory to "the very fact that he was in the White House...
...Ronald Petersen, director of the Alzheimer's Researcher Center at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "These people are really quite functional." For if MCI is indeed the earliest stage of Alzheimer's disease, and if it's possible to slow its progression, patients might be able to delay the onset of full-blown Alzheimer's and preserve a fairly decent quality of life...