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...objective types (it helps if you haven't a dime to invest) have been fooled by the Big Board barbarians before, and while we were completely prepared to scoff knowingly at any Monday follow-up to Friday's misplaced giddiness, we weren't quite prepared to say it couldn't happen. Yes, it did seem that a sustained rally now, based as it would be on nothing at all, would make suckers of any who expected it to bridge the gap between now and THE RECOVERY, and what's more, the aformentioned recovery would be a lot better...
...suppose if there's one bit of good to come out of this tawdry mess is that it allows Americans to get a glimpse of their representatives. In Washington, Gary Condit is a dime-a-dozen, the blow-dried but not particularly bright Congressman who tends his own constituent garden and doesn't have any real involvement in issues of national importance. Their careers are not about service or ideology but about re-election - that is the star they steer...
...Certainly for Bush and the Republicans, it all adds up just fine. The numbers, Bush said Tuesday, will illustrate "that we've got enough money to preserve and protect Social Security, that we'll pay down over $100 billion of public debt, that? every dime that comes into Medicare, will be spent on Medicare," Bush said Tuesday. "And we can meet our priorities when it comes to our military and ... education...
...example, Langer and neurosurgeon Henry Brem devised the first dime-size chemotherapy wafers to treat brain cancer. These wafers release powerful cancer-fighting drugs slowly in the site where a tumor has been removed in order to kill any cancer cells the surgeon has missed. By confining the drugs to the site of the tumor, the effects on other organs are minimized--always a major consideration in chemotherapy. The same concept has since been applied to prostate, spinal and ovarian cancers...
...SPARE A DIME? The U.S. jobless rate is stable at 4.5%, but other signs of woe persist...