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...favorite phrase of Bush's is "sound science"--one he uses to justify his stance on issues from global warming to phonics. But to skeptics, the evidence on which he made the stem-cell decision is beginning to look more like the haul from a political scavenger hunt. "It's not very thorough work, lacking in the depth that this issue required and that they were ballyhooing the President had put into it," says Democratic Senator John Kerry...
...there is help on the way--those tax-rebate checks. "This was a perfectly timed tax cut," says Larry Lindsey, director of the President's National Economic Council, that "stopped a very precipitous fall." As the rebate stimulates consumer spending, he argues, it will increase the government's tax haul. The upshot: the surplus should come roaring back...
...husband's death. The next day, she disappeared. No one has heard from her since. A boy leading his mule past Heguantun village instinctively shakes his head when asked about coal mines in the area. Yet just meters away, in the center of this dusty hamlet, men haul bits of coal out of a narrow shaft. "This is not an illegal mine," insists its affable owner, Yan Lizhe. "It's too small...
...says. That we-wuz-robbed zeal may keep party stalwarts perking--New Hampshire state chairwoman Kathy Sullivan says that at a recent picnic, she was besieged by people who think Gore deserves a "do-over"--but it isn't likely to do the trick with voters over the long haul...
...Kong trip back to Nanjing, we stop at an airport duty-free shop and hunt for souvenirs. After 36 months away, she decides she will return from Africa with a giant Toblerone bar, a bag of Sugus fruit chews and a bottle of Lubriderm Daily UV Lotion. Xu's haul is hardly as exotic as the unicorn that Zheng He presented to the Emperor. But she must take gifts home for waiting relatives. That is Chinese tradition, just as for centuries its citizens have made the long, hopeful voyage to Africa...