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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...hard to remember now, when Snoopy and Charlie Brown dominate the blimps at golf tournaments instead of the comics in Sunday papers, that once upon a time Schulz's strip was the fault-line of a cultural earthquake. Garry Trudeau, creator of "Doonesbury," who came of age as a comic strip artist under Schulz's influence, thought of it as "the first Beat strip." Edgy, unpredictable, ahead of its time, "Peanuts" "vibrated with '50s alienation," Trudeau recalled. "Everything about it was different...
...Instead he's getting one last shot in at his old Republican nemeses in the House and putting the issue back in the hands of a Congress that's even more split than it was last year. Let Bush find a way to do what may be the impossible: get voters free-market-created prescription drugs at socialized-medicine prices...
...real, multi-year recession would of course make those surpluses disappear very fast.) But an extra $1.4 trillion is a heck of a lot of breathing room, and Democrats will be hard-pressed to argue that even Bush's now-enlarged proposal (it's $1.6 trillion from 2002-2011 instead of the old $1.3 trillion from 2002-2010) will break the fiscal bank...
...included in your Inventions 2000 report, but we want to clarify one point for your readers. Our device is a valuable tool for radiation treatment given in the operating room at the time of tumor removal and for the treatment of brain tumors for which radiation is used instead of surgery. At the present time, it is not a replacement for standard radiation therapy or chemotherapy. Clinical trials are under way, however, that could prove that treatment during surgery using our device may be the only therapy needed. EUAN THOMSON, PRESIDENT AND CEO Photoelectron Corp. Lexington, Mass...
Gore wanted to sleep on it. He bucked up the weeping kids and sent everyone to bed. But no amount of sleep could soften an unsigned opinion tossed over history's transom like a ransom note penned by Kafka. You have to wonder if the Supreme Court, instead of reading election results, is now in the business of making them. The court warned that its ruling was custom fit: "Our consideration is limited to the present circumstances...equal protection...generally presents many complexities." You bet it does: like flawed machines that disproportionately failed to record legally cast votes in inner...