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While the $700 billion bailout has been the focus of attention and scrutiny, the Internal Revenue Service and lawmakers have been quietly making changes to the tax code and how it is followed in an effort to further boost the financial strength of ailing companies. At the same time, though, the changes drain billions of dollars of badly needed tax revenue when the federal deficit is mushrooming. Many of the changes may lower corporate-tax revenue for years to come...
Given the large size of these new studies, however, some experts doubt that future research will controvert them. "If the focus is preventing prostate cancer, then there is nothing you can go to the health-food store and get in a bottle," says Dr. Patrick Walsh, a leading prostate-cancer specialist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. "Men are fooling themselves if they think that...
...countries are now treating the Bush team like an annoying houseguest that has overstayed his welcome), Obama can't be anything but vague for now. Although he sent observers to the summit, many greens wish he had deployed a high-level representative - like Vice President-elect Joseph Biden - to focus the world's attention on Poznan. As it is, the U.S. vacuum is the perfect excuse to justify the generally slow progress of the talks. Yet once Obama takes over on Jan. 20, he'll have less than a year to get ready for Copenhagen. That's nothing...
...Unlike most lengthy grant applications, applicants submitted just a two-page proposal and needed no preliminary data—the focus was on the idea, not on the results, according to Andrew C. Serazin, an official at the Gates Foundation...
...Taliban than they are of you,” he said. Galasco, a senior military analyst for the Human Rights Watch, said he was optimistic that civilian casualties in Afghanistan might decrease due to the ban on cluster munitions, which Afghanistan signed despite protests from the U.S. While the focus of the talk was Afghanistan, much was said about Pakistan and its relationship with the U.S. Lodhi, who has not only served as an ambassador to the U.S. but also the high commissioner from Pakistan to Great Britain, characterized the relationship between Pakistan and the U.S. as precarious and facing...