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...partisan bill," says Senate majority leader Harry Reid. That may be harder than it looks. Though Democrats control Congress, it takes 60 votes to get past a filibuster in the Senate; with the death of Ted Kennedy, they have only 59. And holding the Democrats' own ranks is getting dicier, given the sinking poll numbers for both Obama and his health-reform effort - particularly among women and voters over 65, who worry that Washington's fixes will only hurt the quality of the care they've got. (See more about health care...
...Kennedy would probably have been the first to tell you not to count on it. When lawmakers cut their deals and cast their votes, it is rarely with another politician's legacy in mind. If anything, Kennedy's death has made the prospects for the bill dicier, because it has deprived Senate Democrats of the 60th vote they would need to block a filibuster (assuming everyone else in the Democratic caucus voted as a bloc, which is far from certain). (See pictures of the lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy...
First, however, NASA has to get through the current flight, and that became a dicier matter when reports came down Tuesday afternoon that sensors under the shuttle's skin and a camera at the end of its robotic arm discovered a scattering of dings across a 21-in. stretch in the leading edge of the right wing, affecting four or five tiles. NASA was quick to call for calm. Indeed, Atlantis was scheduled to rendezvous with Hubble at 7:41 a.m. ET on Wednesday, but it will be more than five hours later before the shuttle's robot arm actually...
...about the phone-mining operation, which the President maintains does not include routine eavesdropping on phone calls. And given the recent slide in the public's confidence in Bush, asking the public to trust him to balance the values of privacy and security could turn out to be a dicier proposition than it was in December, when the New York Times revealed that the President had authorized the supersecret NSA to conduct no-warrant wiretaps of hundreds and perhaps thousands of phone calls and e-mail messages between people inside the U.S. and parties overseas...
Climbing off the couch and getting back into condition is a dicier proposition. Trying to do it too fast can actually be dangerous. "Among those at greatest risk for heart-attack death is the habitually sedentary person who engages in unaccustomed physical activity," warns Barry Franklin, physiologist and chairman of the American Heart Association's Physical Activities Committee. Before starting even a minimal exercise program, therefore, you should call your doctor for a preworkout O.K. or even a checkup...