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...level. With just under a year to go before Nov. 2, 2004, Americans are already finding ways to show how passionately they feel about their President. In August, KB Toys rolled out its George W. Bush Elite Force Aviator doll, a 12-in. action figure in full naval flight gear. At $39.99, it has set the sales record for collectible action figures on KB's website. There's also brisk traffic on the Web for donations in memory of Sally Baron, 71, of northern Wisconsin, and Gertrude M. Jones, 81, of Mandeville, La. Obituaries for both women contained requests that...
...election campaign is in a higher gear than you might think a year before voters go to the polls. The Bush campaign is on track to raise $200 million, which, perhaps more than anything else, is a testament to the devotion of his supporters. And at Bush's suburban Virginia campaign headquarters, manager Ken Mehlman has taken to asking staff members who knock off early, "Does Howard Dean's staff go home...
...beginning in the 1980s, as China's drive to capitalism kicked into higher gear, Beijing extended market reforms to health care?with disastrous consequences. Local health bureaus were stripped of their government funding and forced to become financially self sufficient. To survive, many local clinics eschewed public-minded immunization drives for more profitable ventures, like selling medicine and services at inflated prices. The social pitfalls of this system were laid bare in a 1998 United Nations-led survey, which found that almost half of those who had fallen below China's poverty line did so only after suffering from...
...JAKARTA: Style mavens swear by two stores in the Indonesian capital-Nvious, tel: (62-21) 719 9288, for funky street clothes, and Populo, tel: (62-21) 720 8625, for clubbing gear...
...tailback Clifton G. Dawson ’07. The transfer from Northwestern can barely sit still as he faces his locker, waiting for the clock to tick down. He doesn’t make a move to get ready. He leaves his gear off, waiting for the last moment...