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...program will help many of the working poor it targets. Offering a maximum benefit of $2,000 toward purchasing health insurance to families making no more than $30,000 a year, the Bush tax credit will in most cases fall well short of covering the whole bill. Out-of-pocket expenses for a family, depending on where it lives, may be several thousand dollars, still far more than the hard-pressed can afford. Bush advisers serve up some happy x factors to fill in the promise gap. Insurance companies, they say, will offer cheaper plans to accommodate this new pool...
...traits with past violent offenders and guided the school to put him in counseling and under close watch. "When those kids walked into Columbine with bombs, no one was expecting it," says Underwood. "We're now on alert if this child comes into school with a bulge in his pocket...
When I got hold of one of Microsoft's new Pocket PCs, set for release this week, my first concern was for my coat pockets. The poor things get thoroughly frayed with all the portable equipment I jam into them every morning: CD player, Palm Pilot, e-mail pager, voice recorder, a novel for the train. Pocket PC promises to do the work of all of the above in a single 9-oz. shell (made variously by Compaq, H-P and Casio). Given that my local tailor charges me the equivalent of the national debt of a small country...
...second period was a pocket of strong play for the Crimson. Shots were even at 11 apiece, and both teams nabbed eight groundballs...
GEEK GRUB Already a cult figure among geeks for his Dilbert comic strip about office life in a high-tech world, cartoonist Scott Adams has decided to capitalize on his fame by creating the Dilberito. It's an all-in-one microwaveable meal-in-a-pocket aimed at the laptop-and-modem crowd. Bland but basically edible, the Dilberito comes in four flavors, all vegetarian and all stuffed with vitamins and protein. Is the Dilberito for everyone? "Some people care about efficiency," Adams says. "Some people don't. We'll get them last...