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...original idea was intended to combat the lingering public sentiment that Bush isn't experienced or serious enough for the job. But the effect has often been to make the President appear removed from the people--more concerned with touting his tax cut to Congressmen than projecting the regular-guy image voters responded to during the campaign. Hughes is brewing a remedy. Beginning this week, when Bush attends an inner-city block party in Philadelphia on July 4 --and continuing through meetings next week with families designed to show his concern for their health-care problems--Hughes will...
...Prime Number 300,000 children, some as young as seven, are currently engaged in combat in 41 countries, according to a report by the London-based Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers...
...Others, including a growing number of residents' organizations and psychological and sleep disorder specialists, maintain residents' combat-style training is an outdated relic that leaves new doctors burned out, incapable of making rational decisions and more likely to make deadly mistakes. Earlier this year, a group of residents' advocates submitted a plea to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, arguing that current residents' hours are a direct threat to new doctor'? well-being. ''Any system allowing its workers to be subjected to such direct threats to their well-being is seriously flawed," the group wrote, adding that studies show residents...
...three men involved in the alleged roadside sex attack walked out of jail after just a couple of days. They have yet to be tried. Arafat is aware of the tension--he's hardly been to the West Bank during the intifadeh--but he has shown little inclination to combat the problem...
...more time to get left on the issue by showing his administration's commitment to addressing the problem of global warming. In a Rose Garden ceremony Monday, the president acknowledged America's responsibility as a polluter and promised to study the issue and create incentives for new technologies to combat it. It was a game effort to remedy a blotchy image, but the question for the White House is whether the repair job will help rectify his environmental image back or whether it will exacerbate the problem by offering too little...