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...amount of pork in appropriations bills has more than tripled. "It's obscene. We have taken it to a whole new level," says Arizona Representative Jeff Flake, a leader of the House's conservative Republican Study Committee. "We frankly look worse than the Democrats did in their heyday." Says Keith Ashdown of Taxpayers for Common Sense: "At a time of record deficits," when most agencies are seeing their budgets cut, "we have to set national priorities." Not surprisingly, the lawmakers who brought home the bacon consider the tax dollars well spent...
Alarmingly, it's not just middle-agers and seniors who are turning up with the problem. So are kids. Dr. Keith Ferdinand treats patients in a community health clinic in one of the poorest neighborhoods in New Orleans and has lately been shocked to see more and more young patients coming in with elevated pressure. Four years ago, he treated his first 18-year-old heart-attack victim. "We're seeing not only a growing number of cases of hypertension in young people," he says. "We're also seeing a growing number of complications from...
Detractors point to the $27 billion drop in portfolio value between 2000 and 2003 as evidence that the CalPERS board has been distracted. However, the portfolio has gained $32 billion since 2003. Dr. Keith Richman, a Republican legislator, last week proposed privatizing the state-employee pension system and gradually abandoning the defined-benefits fund that CalPERS oversees...
...HALLOWEEN By Keith Giffen & Benjamin Roman This darkly comedic series chronicles the misadventures of a group of particularly disturbing trick-or-treaters as they go about their macabre business on Halloween night...
Freshman Matthew Button (157 lbs.) was also unable to secure a win, losing his first match 16-0 to Keith Gavin of Pittsburgh. Cooper Fouch from UC Davis pinned Button in his second match...