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...don’t fret. The Nobel Peace Prize committee is a forgiving bunch. Withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza and maybe they’ll give you the prize too. Heck, I went from presiding over death squads to shaking hands with Nelson Mandela and sipping Dom Perignon in Oslo. And believe me, retiring as a Nobel laureate is a lot more fun than spending your final days in the Hague, awaiting an imminent war crimes indictment...
...House Republicans are nervous about the $80 billion deficit Bush would run up in the $2.13 trillion budget he proposes for fiscal year 2003. The GOP, after all, is supposed to be the party of fiscal responsibility. Yeah, there's a war and a recession to fight, but Republicans fret that when Bush opens the door slightly to a deficit, the Democrats will open it wider to pour in money for all their spending programs. The budget deficit could balloon and GOP congressmen would catch as much heat for the red ink as the Democrats...
...Bush's new pension-reform plan seeks to fix some of the things that went wrong for Enron employees, and like-minded G.O.P.-sponsored measures are going off like popcorn in both the House and the Senate. The proposals don't go as far as Democrats want, but businesses fret that they are just an opening bid. Too many restrictions, the lobbyists say, will discourage companies from making any matching contributions to employee retirement funds...
...fined after attacking a referee; the ref was 14. Americans don't generate the headlines Europeans do (HUNDREDS CRUSHED IN SOCCER RIOT!), and given the tens of millions of parents who cheer on their kids, the number of sports-psychosis cases is low. But we can still fret when adults go nuts over what should be only a game...
...labs, scientists fret over getting access to enough cells. The National Institutes of Health admits that just 24 of the 64 lines Bush cited are "fully characterized." Work can advance with just a dozen, but finding even that dozen has been difficult. "There are serious issues about when the cells will be practically available," says the NIH's Ron McKay. The NIH has a deal with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation that gives scientists access to the stem-cell lines developed by prominent researcher James Thomson. Access to the other lines still has to be worked out. That...