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...Palin's red-meat conservatism and Evangelicalism will almost certainly play well with those party faithful who attended the Republican National Convention this week. But with fewer than 60 days until Election Day (and a month before the start of early voting in many states), the McCain campaign's continued courting of the more traditional base spells trouble for any efforts to expand his appeal to independent voters and less conservative Evangelicals. If so, McCain may find himself quoting a bowdlerized verse of Scripture in November: What does it profit a man to gain the Christian right and lose...
...meantime, he is sticking to a positive script when it comes to tensions within his own party, even his relations to his old opponent McCain, who effectively ended Huckabee's chances by defeating him by fewer than 15,000 votes in South Carolina. "Come to think of it, as I look back, I probably shouldn't have been that nice to the guy," Huckabee joked about McCain at the breakfast meeting...
Aren't we making a lot of progress? Absolutely. In a lot of places. When you adjust for age (since cancer is over-represented in the elderly), fewer people are getting cancer, and those who get it are surviving longer. We are benefiting from improved surgical techniques as well as more refined chemotherapies and radiation strategies that use lasers and robots to target cancer cells. Cracking the genomic code is leading to new drugs, geared to individual dna, that disrupt the very mechanism of cancer. "The rate of discovery has been phenomenal," says Dr. Harold Varmus, CEO of Memorial Sloan...
...worried about money; this country has the wealth and the capacity to do amazing things," says Davis, the former head of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana. "The resource that keeps me up at night is time. We lucked out with Gustav. But there may be fewer sands in that hourglass than we want to believe...
...Although Harvard and other wealthy schools may appease legislators with more generous aid packages, the trickle-down effect might be minimal. Mark Kantrowitz, a financial-aid expert based in Pitsburgh, Pa., who runs the website Finaid.org, predicts that fewer than 5% of schools will do away with loans entirely. That's because the vast majority of schools don't have large endowments they can tap to supplement lower tuition revenue. Many still depend heavily on net tuition to pay for operating costs, including faculty salaries and facility maintenance. That may be especially true at public schools - which educate...