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...another reason: it undercuts his professed desire to "right-size" government. Immediately after proposing the pay cut, Bush called for "a streamlined reorganization of the Executive Branch through a consolidation of agencies and bureaus that will enable us to do our job better." He struck at the right culprit -- the bloated bureaucracy -- but his method is madness. "As Presidents have sought control of the governments they oversee, they have added increasingly redundant layers of middle managers at the expense of those who do the real work," says Paul Light, a public affairs professor at the University of Minnesota. "In government...
Johnson said the department does not know if the culprit was a Harvard student...
...report in the New England Journal of Medicine says the culprit may be cow's milk, and the process a bizarre case of mistaken identity. Doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto found that the diabetics had a much higher than normal level of antibodies to a protein in cow's milk called bovine serum albumin; their bodies have targeted the protein as an invader to be destroyed. By a terrible coincidence, a section of this milk protein is almost identical to a protein on the surface of insulin-producing cells. When these people are sensitized to milk...
...cause of AIDS, has proved to be a fiendishly fast-moving target, able to mutate its structure to elude detection, drugs and vaccines. No one knows for sure how HIV destroys the human immune system, and puzzled experts have debated whether the virus is the only culprit at work...
...that makes sense. These people lived their lives under a system where a state-run economy guaranteed work for every ablebodied citizen. Unemployment was virtually unknown. Failing to work was a crime against the state--that branded the culprit a "parasite...