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...most at risk. The overall picture is no less bleak than the one described by the previous list, issued four years ago, and the outlook for certain groups is especially grim. The number of critically endangered primates has risen 50%, largely as a result of habitat loss and the demand for "bush meat." The number of critically endangered freshwater turtles, prized in Southeast Asia for food and medicines, has more than doubled. Among birds, the number of threatened albatrosses jumped from three to 16, owing to long-line fishing. Even more alarming, say environmentalists, is that the Red List comprises...
Paying off the debt now enhances the Treasury's ability to borrow later, when Social Security benefit payments will exceed incoming payroll-tax revenues. A smaller national debt also reduces overall demand for credit, pushing down interest rates. This in turn should stimulate economic growth and create jobs, producing more payroll-tax revenue to keep Social Security healthy. Devoting the savings in interest payments to Social Security should extend the program's solvency from...
...contained. The Governor's office fought a bill to require automatic re-enrollment in Medicaid of kids still eligible after their parents were dropped from welfare rolls. And under pressure from Bush allies running the appropriations committees, Texas legislators accepted projections of a steep decline in patient demand for Medicaid. Bush succeeded in passing another tax cut, this one amounting to $1.7 billion. But the Medicaid forecasts proved overly rosy, leaving the program with a $400 million deficit. The state health department is looking for ways to offset it. One idea is to take more than $17 million from hard...
...which to file documents and a provision for allowing briefs to be more than four times the normal length. Microsoft claims that such provision are warranted by the complexity and monumental nature of the case at hand. Its argument, however, is ill-founded. While complexity and historical import demand a thorough and unbiased weighing of the facts and a fair adjudication the parties conflicting claims, they do not demand such an encumbrance on the court. The appeals court would be prudent to follow the government's more efficient counter-proposal and to proceed as swiftly and judiciously as possible...
...Adkins dismissed the notion that Nader's ties to the group make his demand that the CPD donate $25,000 amount to extortion...