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...million casualties. Another report estimated that a smallpox release could kill 40 million. But Bush's budget this year allocated just $345 million for bioterrorism preparedness. Congress had passed legislation asking for $1.4 billion, and now that number is considered too low. Last week Thompson publicly asked for an extra $1.5 billion, and the final number could be more than three times that. The money would be used to boost drug stockpiles, train local health workers to respond to an emergency and improve the testing facilities at labs. Many today have no fax machine, let alone a computer link...
...which President Clinton boasts at a dinner about the 8 million new jobs he has created, and a waiter cracks, "Yeah, and I'm working four of them"? Well, it's no laughing matter anymore. In recent years, more Americans have been working part time. Some are moonlighting for extra money. Others put two or three part-time jobs together. Still others prefer part-time work because it gives them more time to care for children or elderly parents. But now that hard times have hit, the part-timers are getting hit harder than most...
...leading measure in Congress to address rising unemployment--President Bush's pitch for an extra $3 billion to extend benefits in some states for eligible workers to 39 weeks from 26--offers no help to part-timers or short-timers. In early October a bipartisan group in the House of Representatives introduced legislation to extend jobless benefits to more low-wage and part-time workers, but so far it has attracted little support...
...progress of macular degeneration, the nation's leading cause of blindness. The sight-saving supplements may prevent vision loss in more than 250,000 people with the disease. What to take? Vitamin C (500 mg), vitamin E (400 IU), beta-carotene (15 mg) and zinc (80 mg). The extra zinc may deplete copper, so take 2 mg of that...
Lucas Rosario, 8, of New York City has new clothes and some extra toys lent to him by his best friend Harry. When he and his parents go out to dinner, which is almost every night now, he gets to pick the restaurant. But if you ask Lucas, none of this is lucky. He witnessed the two planes crashing into the World Trade Center, his "favorite buildings," and saw people jumping to their deaths. And the reason he is freshly outfitted and eating out is that he and his parents Julio Rosario and Joan Lader have been living a vagabond...