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When Tennessee was staggered by budget shortfalls in 2001, then Republican Gov. Don Sundquist proposed an income tax for state residents instead of another hike in the sales tax, which was already one of the highest in the country. The GOP all but disowned him, conservative talk show hosts began...
DIED. John J. Geoghan, 68, former Catholic priest and convicted child molester, after being strangled by an inmate serving a life sentence for killing a man he believed was gay; in a maximum security facility in Shirley, Massachusetts. Geoghan was accused of sexually abusing up to 150 boys during his...
The tortured nation of Iraq sighed in relief when the notorious sons of Saddam Hussein were killed [WORLD, Aug. 4]. Eliminating these two thugs has allowed the U.S. to turn the tables on the critics of the war. Coalition forces now have the blessings of those who lost family members...
Feeding the cows, cleaning out the pigpen and weeding the potato beds - that's the routine Irina Zhbanova grew up with in Perkhlyai, a desolate village of 740 souls in the depressed Russian republic of Mordovia, 600 km southeast of Moscow. But for the past three years, Zhbanova, 14, has...
Although manufacturers have improved the taste of diet snacks since sugarless candies first hit the market, the artificial sweeteners involved can still give food developers--and dieters--fits. Most sweets rely on a family of sugar substitutes called sugar alcohols, which are slowly digested carbohydrates that have minimal impact on...