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...late spring both the Senate and House had passed their own budget resolutions recommending $56 billion in deficit reductions. But where the House cut military spending, Republican Senators bravely went out on a limb to approve instead a freeze on cost of living adjustments (COLAS) for Social Security and other retirement and entitlement programs...
...undercutting them on the Social Security freeze. New Mexico's Domenici, who was not invited to the Oak Tree reception even though he chairs the Senate Budget Committee, called it "a terrible blow." Said another Senate source: "It was the Oak Tree meeting where they sawed off the limb Pete Domenici was on." Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole said the arrangement amounted to "surrendering to the deficit." Growled Iowa's Charles Grassley, one of 22 Republican Senators up for re-election next year: "The President, if he can't support us, ought to keep his mouth shut...
...another gene that is expressed in developing and lactating breast tissue. Soon after female mice with the injected gene give birth and begin nursing, they grow sizable tumors in their breasts. Perhaps more remarkable still, when these transgenic mice are interbred, their offspring occasionally have a startling sort of limb deformity, fused leg bones, for example, and three digits instead of five. The reason is that some of the descendant's own genes have been disrupted by the inherited but foreign c-myc DNA. "This approach will certainly help us understand limb development and what can go wrong with...
...most fascinating aspects of the case, however, is its very ordinariness in the realm of end-of-life decision-making law. Schiavo breaks no new ground. It does not go out on a limb in any sense of the word. It simply combines into one complex package three hot-button issues that encourage reliance on emotion and rhetoric rather than on medical facts. The combination has permitted pro-life and disability rights activists to capitalize on visual images and strong religious beliefs to promote a broad social cause, to the detriment of Schiavo and her family...
...full of double-jointed, intricate sonic moments seemingly made possible only by agile programming, but many of those highlights were played almost flawlessly on stage. This may sound terribly rockist, but you just don’t expect to find bass chops as funky as Harris’ or limb-cracking beats like those meted out by drummer Danny Seim in a band whose recorded output relies so heavily on silicon...