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Engler's work on last week's welfare and Medicaid compromise can be seen as a further refinement of that strategy. In January the Governor threw a scare into some true believers by announcing a limited-area research effort called Project Zero. The still sketchy project involves intensive (and presumably expensive) intervention by welfare workers to learn why some people won't work; it includes no time limits, so some thought it signaled Engler's opposition to the congressional Republicans' five-years-and-you're-out philosophy. His fellow Governors knew better. Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson reports that Engler...
...musing has taken on great urgency because friendship, it turns out, is one of the few exceptions to the draconian new congressional ethics rules that took effect on Jan. 1. These rules replace older, looser ones about accepting gifts, meals and junkets. The new standard in the House is "Zero Tolerance"--no freebies other than trifling gewgaws and home-state souvenirs from anyone at all, except family or friends. The Senate still allows gifts up to $50 in value. No one has enough family members to supply all the goodies so many in Washington have become accustomed to--fine wines...
...Even if the reading may not be quite as voluminous as in some other courses it requires very careful and slow reading," Nagy says, "and some of the characters in the literature go from zero to hero like in the Odyssey...
Olestra, the fake fat that took Procter & Gamble 25 years and $200 million to develop, finally won FDA approval. Critics still contend that the zero-calorie, zero-cholesterol fat impostor, which passes through the body without being digested, causes unwanted side effects--among them diarrhea, cramps and, in rare cases, anal leakage. It can also rob the body of nutrients. Olestra products will carry a warning label...
PLAINS AND MIDWEST: The arctic cold that has paralyzed the Plains and Midwest is expected to last through the weekend, setting record lows from Minnesota to Louisiana. In Tower, Minnesota, the mercury reached a record for the state at 60 below zero. 50,000 to 60,000 people were without power in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas. At least 12 people have died as a result of the severe weather...