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...make clear another point about salary caps: they do not necessarily guarantee parity. While spending limits may seem to put all teams on an even plane, it has been proven that there is always plenty of wiggle room for the smart teams to use to an unfair advantage. Contracts containing deferred money, for example, allow for softening of the cap. The wealthier teams can still secure the frontline players by simply promising more money at a future date. Take a glance at the NBA. You can count the number of teams who are actually under the cap on one hand...
...Thompson is looking for a fight from his Senate panel, he's doing it quietly. When asked during his hearings whether he would seek to repeal FDA approval of the controversial "abortion pill," RU-486, Thompson replied, "I don't intend to roll back anything unless it's proven to be unsafe." And although the FDA's approval is dependent upon positive results in extensive safety and efficacy tests, Thompson indicated he did not feel the case was necessarily closed to further analysis and possible future restrictions on the drug. "Safety concerns are something that's in question," he told...
There is no proven reason, of course, to think that either of these steps is necessary. Never mind that the Federal Government insists there is no cause for alarm, or that no study has established a link between cell-phone use and illness. Shafransky and Wilson belong to a small but growing group of consumers who are fretting about whether there are health risks. The cell-phone companies contend the fears are unfounded but, savvy marketers that they are, most are quietly introducing more efficient--and therefore lower-radiation--phones...
...disease. But there are reasons to remain cautious. For one thing, it may turn out that both these secretases play vital roles in other aspects of cellular metabolism, so that interfering with them will come at the price of serious side effects. For another, it is still far from proven that beta amyloid is as central to Alzheimer's disease as, say, cholesterol is to heart disease. Says molecular neurologist Dr. Peter St. George-Hyslop of the University of Toronto: "We have a theory and experimental data that support that theory, but we won't know the theory is right...
Frugality is certainly a virtue for the nation's chief bookkeeper, especially when he's working for a President who wants to give taxpayers a big break. In Daniels, 51, Bush also has a proven political operator to approach a wary and bifurcated Congress. A longtime aide to G.O.P. Senator Richard Lugar, Daniels worked closely with Democrats in the 1970s bailout of Chrysler and New York City. As Ronald Reagan's political director in the 1980s, he salved the egos of Governors and lawmakers. And as senior vice president at Eli Lilly & Co., he transformed the old-line corporate culture...