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...Whip Tom DeLay marveled at the Teamsters' approach, which included posting envoys by wavering members' offices as well as by the House floor. The vote passed. "They say, 'This is jobs for us and votes for you,'" says senior adviser Mary Matalin of the union pitch. "There's no tap dancing. They deliver...
...University of Michigan management professor who ran GE's famed Crotonville executive-training center in the mid-1980s. Immelt wants to quicken the pace of innovation at GE, and a year-old R.-and-D. center in India--along with China, the key global market he'll have to tap for growth--should help. He also plans to push the company's continuing move into the digital age, expanding the use of online auctions to cut costs...
...real American BARNEY THE LOBSTER One-meter-long crustacean is saved from the pot by a merciful chef in London. When it comes to shellfish, size does matter Losers MICHAEL JACKSON King of Pop opens trading at NASDAQ, only to see stocks tumble. The troubled exchange may have to tap a heavyweight like Pee Wee Herman JACQUES CHIRAC French President photographed in the buff by paparazzi while on holiday. Editors recoil, but you might get the pix for a euro or two on e-Bay RODNEY KING Brutality victim is arrested on suspicion of being under the influence...
...surplus had somehow evaporated. The $158 billion left over is almost entirely made up of Social Security tax receipts--which Bush and congressional leaders have vowed not to touch. And this week the Congressional Budget Office is expected to release even more pessimistic figures, showing the government will tap those funds before the year ends. Cue up the attack ads--the ones in which each side accuses the other of endangering the retirement security of elderly Americans...
...public or private school, according to the Federal Government. Home schoolers participate in extracurricular activities too. Many of the home-schooling parents interviewed by TIME were just as busy as any parents scheduling baseball practices and ballet classes. Judi Thomas of Marietta, Ga., says her daughter Juliet, 9, "has tap and ballet on Tuesdays; Wednesdays, there's choir; Thursdays, she has classes with other home schoolers; Fridays, there's usually a play date or a field trip...