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...February estimate of $746 billion. Of course, the difference is 75 percent accounting. Revisions of average annual economic growth predictions, from 2.7 percent to 3 percent for each of the 10 years, beefed up the numbers by almost an even trillion. And the surplus is based, as usual, on pipe-dream budget numbers, but then again, nobody's interested in being a wet blanket...
...Jersey is not hostile to wealthy candidates. Retiring Senator Frank Lautenberg spent $5 million out of his own pocket in 1982 to beat Millicent Fenwick, the venerable stateswoman often compared to Doonesbury's pipe-smoking Lacey Davenport. Franks says he hopes to raise $10 million, although competing in the most expensive media market in the country will require much more. Franks may find out that the biggest money problem a candidate can have is not having enough...
...thought to be the cause of tumors in the kidney and elsewhere along the urinary tract among patients in Belgium who took it as part of a weight-loss program. The highly toxic herb is likely to be present in a host of botanicals, including Dutchman's pipe, guan mu ton, heart snake root and birthwort. The FDA plans to seize any substance with Aristolochia that turns up at U.S. ports...
Bandwidth is the ability to move bits. Broadband is the ability to move a lot of bits per second. Though everybody seems to do it, likening bandwidth to the diameter of a pipe is misleading, because our consumption of bits is not analogous to drinking from a garden or fire hose. We don't necessarily consume bits in a continuous fashion (like water), and even if we did, that does not perforce mean our computers have to receive them that...
...Safer ways to save Social Security and Medicare. A better, targeted tax cut - targeted being the operative word, as opposed to Bush insistence on an across-the-board that helps rich folks too - which Gore upped to $500 billion after hearing about extra surplus dough coming down the fiscal pipe. Gore's even going to try to sell an enviro-business angle to woo corporate donors, in which cleaning the planet can be good business...