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...invest in troubled banks. A TIME.com analysis of public records shows that nearly one-third, or $216 billion, of the $700 billion that Congress approved to be spent just six weeks ago has already been spent or will soon be sent to just 67 banks. That's a small fraction of the up to 1,800 financial firms that are expected to apply for government assistance...
...Navy inspections of the San Antonio have found a raft of problems so baked into its design that many Navy officials fear it can never be made right, despite its price tag's having risen from $644 million to $1.8 billion. "Some significant fraction of the welds in that ship were flawed and had to be redone," John Young, the Pentagon's top weapons buyer, told Congress in June. "I shouldn't be forced to pay on behalf of taxpayers any price for any level of deficient performance." Still, that's just what the Navy did, forking over an additional...
...shows Obama up by 12 points among likely voters. John Kerry won the state by 144,000 votes in 2004. Polls show Obama strong in all of the same places Kerry was strong - and he has something like 500,000 newly registered Democrats behind him. Even if only a fraction of those new Democrats turn out on Tuesday, it's hard to see how McCain can pick up enough votes to offset all those extra votes. A McCain victory at this point, Madonna said, "would go against everything we know about the state." - By Sean Scully / Philadelphia...
...believe the Taliban has begun to stockpile large quantities of the drug, which is worth about $464,000 per ton once it is exported from Afghanistan. When British forces recently occupied Musikalia in Helmand province, they uncovered a stockpile of 45 tons of opium. But that's a tiny fraction of what has disappeared. "Where is it? We have been asking," says Antonio Maria Costa, head of the U.N. drug office. He recently appealed to NATO forces and Western intelligence officers to launch an aggressive hunt for the opium...
...look at the record of the recent past, every case on national security, for example, has been divided 5-4. Abortion is up for grabs. Affirmative action and racial justice are [major] issues. The longest a president can serve is a tiny fraction of the [average Supreme Court justice's tenure]. The amount of power that the Supreme Court has is much greater, for better or for worse. We're one vote away from flip-flopping on the law of the land on issue after issue...