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...that the defeated Democratic positions are controversial only inside the Beltway and that health care was one of the key issues that helped his party do well last November," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. The President accordingly believes Democrats are well positioned: Even if he has to nix the bill, his party will get an issue...
...kids at Michelle's preschool had them. Maybe it was at the movie theater, or from the airplane seat on their trip to Indiana a couple of weeks earlier. Her husband was the first to notice the tiny dark specks, then the larger crawling ones. "I treated her with Nix, and I've been picking stuff out and vacuuming and cleaning ever since," Karp says. "Now I'm here...
...Kwell, a hot dryer and a good cleaning did the job. But today's louse, a.k.a. Pediculus humanus capitis, which nests in 12 million new heads annually, is a hardier bug, having grown resistant to the prescription drugs lindane and Elimite and the over-the-counter permethrin drug Nix, which remain imperfect mainstays in the treatment of lice. "The pyrethrins [RID, Pronto and A-200 Pyrinate] aren't working as well as they used to either," says University of Miami lice expert Terri Meinking. Such insecticide products all have side effects. And none are 100% ovicidal, which doesn...
...badly does Congress want to nix a national ID card? Not very. Late in the evening last Wednesday, Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) tried to yank spending for a Department of Transportation ID card proposal that would compel states to encode Social Security numbers (and possibly digitized fingerprints) into driver's licenses. Barr's ploy didn't work. Democrats defended the plan as a way to let immigrants prove they're citizens. Other Republicans suggested Barr try to forge a compromise with transportation bureaucrats, which he'll do in a meeting this week...
...record $12.67 an hour. That's got to put the fear into the Fed. It's unlikely that El Niño can cause enough bad weather -- as it did in March -- to slow the job juggernaut again. Between keeping interest rates beneficial to Asia and raising them to nix U.S. inflation, Greenspan's bind just became much tighter...