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Frank canceled his scheduled appearance because of unexpected Congressional duties, remaining on Capitol Hill to vote on a defense spending bill. A longtime proponent of defense cuts, Frank proposed an amendment to slash U.S. spending on foreign based troops by $3.5 billion...
Most Ivy schools have opted for slash-and-burn tactics. Last fall, Yale cut funding for varsity wrestling, varsity water polo and junior varsity ice hockey. Brown followed suit, cutting its women's gymnastics program...
...move to slash RDAs, scheduled to go into effect next year, flies in the face of research that suggests benefits from higher doses of vitamins. The current RDA for vitamin C, for example, is 60 mg. But to get a protective effect against cataracts or cancer may require as much as 100 mg. Similarly, vitamin E may need a boost from the RDA of 10 mg to 100 mg. (There is no RDA for beta carotene, but scientists speculate that 25 mg or more a day could be needed...
...retired Nashville surgeon credited with popularizing the technique, "we were committing assault and battery on our patients. It wasn't what we did to their insides, but what we did in order to get there that was the problem." Now, instead of an 8-cm to 15-cm slash down their abdomens, patients wake up with four small incisions that not only heal more quickly but also are far less painful. In fact, most patients whose gall bladders are removed laparoscopically leave the hospital the next day and return to work within a week...
...pronged attack. On the home front, he slams Bush for breaking his no new taxes pledge and for signing last year's Civil Rights Act, which Buchanan calls an unjust quota bill. Buchanan rails against illegal immigrants, who he claims are draining taxpayer dollars. He wants to slash the size of the Federal Government, freeze government regulations for two years and roll back half of Congress's recent pay hike. He also wants to clamp term limits on "those check-kiting, boodling Congressmen on Capitol Hill." In one of his nastier pitches, he attacks the National Endowment for the Arts...