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...obscurity, Section 6001 is not an especially big giveaway by Capitol Hill standards. Rather, it is typical among the growing litany of examples of how Washington extends favorable treatment to one set of citizens at the expense of another. It's a process that frequently causes serious, sometimes fatal economic harm to unwary individuals and businesses that...
...unless he builds a table in Shop. In Habit Patterns, Barbara sobs because she's a slob ("You make a pretty picture," the catty narrator says, "with your rumpled skirt, your spotted sweater and your hair in a tizzy"). John, in Narcotics: Pit of Despair, takes that first fatal drag on a joint and instantly becomes a heroin addict. What could be spookier? A Date with Your Family, in which five pod people purporting to be a suburban family sit down to dinner. "Pleasant, unemotional conversation," we are told, "helps digestion." Hey, what is this? Stalin's Russia...
...fall of Kohl took on elements of a Greek tragedy, complete with reversals of fortune and fatal character flaws. It probably reached a nadir late last week, when Wolfgang Hullen, the official in charge of finance for the C.D.U.'s parliamentary faction, hanged himself at home as the Bundestag opened its investigation into the funding scandal. While the reasons for the suicide remain hazy, Hullen apparently feared being arrested for diverting some of the party's huge cash flow into his own account. But he's not likely to be the scandal's last victim. It has already touched...
Bradley is 3 points ahead in New Hampshire, and a win combined with a close second in Iowa, could seriously undermine Gore's chances. But a Gore win would be nearly fatal to Bradley. Either way, though, both campaigns have until March to regroup. The wild card is independent voters. Will they be flocking to Bradley or McCain...
...SOUND APPROACH In more than 14,000 pregnancies each year, mother and fetus have incompatible blood types. In these cases, the mother's immune system may attack the fetus' red blood cells, causing potentially fatal anemia in the unborn baby. Now doctors report a painless way to screen for the problem. A special Doppler ultrasound placed over a mother's belly was shown to be 100% effective in detecting moderate to severe fetal anemia. That sure beats today's invasive screening procedures like cordocentesis, in which a blood sample is taken from the umbilical cord, with an attendant risk...