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...billion deficits, when the President is facing conservative Republicans who are irritable over his big-spending ways and Democrats who are complaining that Bush's pie-in-the-sky proposals crowd out important domestic priorities. And Bush will not even be footing the bill himself. The real costs will occur long after he heads back to Crawford (even after a second term), forcing other Presidents to find the money. "We do not know where this journey will end," says a senior Republican staff member, parroting a line from the President's speech last Wednesday announcing the plan, "because...
...effort to curtail the current avian-flu outbreak before any killer mutations can occur, public-health officials, epidemiologists and virologists are now scrambling to figure out the origin and genomic sequence of the flu strains in Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam. A 14-strong WHO team, including experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is expected to arrive in Hanoi by midweek. If they can determine where this virus came from, then perhaps better surveillance and monitoring of the poultry trade can curtail future outbreaks...
...late December, Yi was sitting in his apartment in Hong Kong, smoking and wondering about his way forward. It was only a matter of time before another outbreak would occur, he now believed. There was simply too much interaction between humans and civets for this virus not to make the leap. But it could take months to get a paper peer-reviewed and published so it would impact public health by encouraging the Guangdong government to curtail the civet population--or at least limit contact between humans and the animal. In that time, the disease could again gain a foothold...
...adolescent screw-you defiance that runs much deeper than the steady stream of gaffes produced by his projectile candor. In Exeter, N.H., last month I watched as he called the moderate Democratic Leadership Council "the Republican wing of the Democratic Party." I could see the "Republican wing" dig occur to him as he was talking about the need to bring Democrats together. His face lit up, his eyes danced, and he couldn't resist the pleasure of the zinger, even though it undercut his intended message and might cost him support down the road. He knew exactly what...
Lead poisoning doesn't seem like much of a problem these days, but new research gives fresh cause for concern. It seems that blood levels of lead previously thought to be safe can actually cause intellectual impairment. Not only that, but quite a bit of damage seems to occur at low levels of exposure. A five-year study found that kids with a blood-lead level at the acceptable threshold of 10 micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dl) scored seven points lower on an IQ test than kids with a level of only 1 mcg/dl. The guidelines for safe lead levels have...