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...owe Arizona Senator John McCain and his aide Mark Buse, the antipork specialist who ferrets out "ridiculous spending projects," a 21-gun salute for blocking pork-barrel appropriations. ROBERT G. ROWE Denver...
...while balancing the budget by 2002, are planning to provide a credit of $500 per child to families earning up to $200,000 a year. But that tax break would exclude more than a third of the children in America whose families earn so little that they owe no income tax. (The cutoff is $24,310 for a family of four.) Those families, however, pay record amounts of Social Security payroll tax, from which Congress is offering no relief...
...unconstitutional under the 1965 Voting Rights Act-a decision that is certain to alter the country's political landscape. By a 5-to-4 vote the Justices ruled that legislative districts drawn with race as the "predominant" motivating factor should generally be struck down. Black officials, many of whom owe their first-time election to racially conscious redistricting, were stunned and outraged. President Clinton called the ruling a "setback...
...good way to assess the great figures of medicine is by how completely they make us forget what we owe them. By that measure, Dr. Jonas E. Salk ranks very high. Partly because of the vaccine he introduced in the mid-1950s, it's hard now to recall the sheer terror that was once connected to the word polio. The incidence of the disease had risen sharply in the early part of this century, and every year brought the threat of another outbreak. Parents were haunted by the stories of children stricken suddenly by the telltale cramps and fever. Public...
...fielded questions for an hour on Bob Lee's radio talk show on station ksl. One caller phoned in worried about Social Security. "Nobody I know is talking about cutting Social Security," said Waldholtz. "Social Security is off the table." A young woman asked about Medicare: "You say we owe the older people because they've been paying in to this, but I'm seeing part of my money going out to other people every month." Said Waldholtz: "Part of the problem is that our government made too many promises. We have got to make changes, not just to preserve...