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...television advertisements by for-profit corporations or labor unions that refer to a specific candidate within two months of a general election. This measure will help prevent corporations and unions from exploiting a loophole in the election law that allows them to buy campaign ads as long as they avoid the magic words “vote for” or “elect.” In compensation, the bill will use the Federal Communications Commission’s authority over broadcasters to mandate discounted rates for candidates, and it will not limit the use of radio...
...avoid a potentially fatal conference committee, the House should pass unchanged the Senate’s version of McCain-Feingold. The dangers the bill might pose to Democratic or Republican election strategy are less important than the dangers the current system poses to Americans’ faith in government. The American people have expressed an unambiguous desire for reform. Any representative who abandons the bill as soon as it has a good chance of passing—or any president who vetoes a once-in-a-decade chance at reform—will not be forgiven lightly. McCain-Feingold...
...some pretty powerful short-term benefits. "Estrogen is still the most effective treatment for hot flashes and perimenopausal symptoms," notes Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. Nor is there anything in the latest study to suggest that women should avoid taking hormones for a few years around menopause. However, as a practical matter, women who have a family history of ovarian cancer or have undergone a partial hysterectomy (ovaries still intact) may want to rethink their choices for long-term hormone replacement. The rest of us are just going to have...
...were shadowing it, was to blame for the accident. "That claim makes as much sense as a guy in a powerboat complaining when he hits a sailboat," one senior Navy officer said. "It's the powerboat guy's responsibility - just like it's the jet pilot's responsibility - to avoid the slow mover...
...Because the U.S. plane was being tracked by a pair of F-8s - a homegrown version of the Russians' venerable MiG-21 - there was talk that an effort by the crew of the EP-3 to avoid one of the F-8s might have inadvertently led to a collision with the second. But Navy officials both in Washington and at Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii said there was no evidence yet that such a "pinching" movement took place...