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Which helps explain why he's running neck and neck with Republican George Gekas in one of only four incumbent-vs.-incumbent congressional matchups in the country. Gekas hadn't planned on a tight race. Republicans redrew the boundaries of Pennsylvania's 17th Congressional District, intending to snuff out Holden's five-term House career. The state lost two seats after the 2000 census, and the G.O.P..-controlled legislature hoped to protect the party's own. The new 17th, a mix of farmland and job-starved coal-mining terrain plus the state capital, Harrisburg, contains 60% of Gekas' old district...
...theory, the government of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is committed to routing al-Qaeda elements from redoubts within Pakistan. But Islamabad holds little sway in the tribal regions of the northwestern frontier, which are largely autonomous and which just voted in district governments with Islamist agendas...
...every state allows do-it-yourself medical testing, but that may be changing. Matthew Schulze of the American Society for Clinical Pathology says 32 states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, permitted some form of direct-access testing last year--up from 27 in 1999. In states that bar the practice, labs often get around the restrictions by retaining physicians to order the tests...
...really cold out here, but this is nothing compared to what the animals go through." KAYLA WORDEN, nude, American anti-fur demonstrator in a Beijing shopping district before she was arrested last week...
...Indonesian police investigating the bomb blasts that tore the heart out of Bali's Kuta tourist district on Oct. 12, killing around 200 and injuring hundreds more, believe Rimbawa may hold the key to identifying at least one of the killers responsible. Rimbawa was a sweeper in Paddy's Irish Pub, and witnesses say he was standing near a 1-kilogram TNT bomb that detonated on a table inside the popular bar. That explosion sent scores of frantic patrons rushing out?into the range of a far more deadly bomb packed inside a white Mitsubishi minivan parked outside the Sari...