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...dirty word, and dirty words are free speech. When some members of the House Judiciary Committee -? yes, that House Judiciary Committee -? got together Wednesday for a subcommittee hearing, they were supposed to talk about cybersquatting-for-profit and other online intellectual-property tangles. But true to form, the distinguished boys and girls who spent most of last year arguing about oral sex couldn?t keep their minds out of the gutter, and most of the day was spent debating a new web phenomenon: dirty domain names...
...addition to such practical considerations, the idea that shaving two months off Clark?s assignment next year amounts to a form of punishment comes across as strange ? but not as strange as the very idea of punishing Clark. On both of his major differences with the Pentagon and the White House over the conduct of the Kosovo campaign ? his desire to escalate the air war from early on and to prepare for a ground invasion ? he may have been vindicated by the outcome. NATO was indeed forced to step up the air war, and many observers believe that...
...comes down to whether consumers are willing to pay for increasingly costly health care or subject themselves to a form of medical rationing. That's the core issue to emerge from two surveys, released Wednesday, centered on patient and doctor experiences with HMOs. The doctor data, compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation together with the Harvard School of Public Health, found a high degree of physician dissatisfaction with a system that continually questions their professional judgment. Among the results: 79 percent of doctors reported trouble getting approval for a drug they wanted to prescribe; 69 percent had difficulty getting approval...
NEEDLE-FREE SHOTS It's not the flu season yet, but it never hurts to be prepared. Protection from the pesky influenza virus may soon come from a simple squirt in the nostrils. Adults using a novel spray vaccine containing a crippled form of the virus had fewer sick days and took less medication than those who toughed it out without shots. Alas, it may be two years before the spray is available in doctor's offices...
ACHING WRISTS That bane of typists and others who spend long hours at the keyboard, carpal-tunnel syndrome, seems to be more common than originally thought. As many as 1 in 5 people who complain of tingling in their hands may have the ailment. The condition, which is a form of repetitive-stress injury, frequently occurs when the same motion is repeated over and over, compressing a nerve in the wrist, with all the painful consequences...