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...Gore misspoke, as Bush's people were quick to point out. He meant to say that each family could buy an extra Diet Coke per day. And even that was slightly off, according to the group that crunched the numbers Gore used, the nonprofit Citizens for Tax Justice. The Diet Coke-a-day number actually applies to the bottom 60% of U.S. taxpayers. But many of those taxpayers don't pay any taxes at all, which skews the numbers in Gore's favor...
...surprising that Putin does not think he mishandled the Kursk sinking. He has behaved in much the same way several times in the past six months, without anything like the repercussions he faced last week. The submarine casualty figure is roughly the number of soldiers who die every month in Chechnya, often under horrific circumstances. The Russian defense establishment follows the same information policy in that war--postpone the news as long as possible, then admit the details as gradually as the situation allows...
...dues isn't popular among the poorer U.N. members, and how they vote may depend on how Congress votes on another piece of legislation this month. The White House wants to give the U.N. $739 million next year for its peacekeeping operations, which have been growing in number. A tightfisted Congress, however, seems ready to spend only $500 million...
Both companies, for instance, are continuing to deal with the recent revelation that State Farm, the nation's largest car insurer, alerted the government and Firestone to an unusually large number of claims for the bad tires as far back as 1997. And on Wednesday, former workers at Firestone's Decatur, Ill., plant, who were replaced by non-union workers during a 1994-96 strike, gave depositions that their supervisors had put quantity ahead of quality. Many of the suspect tires were made there. Firestone says those testifying are disgruntled employees. Also, attorneys want the recall to be widened...
...between townspeople and the carnivores, natural-resource officer Wade Roberts and his deputies tranquilize the bears with a dart gun, temporarily house them in a concrete-and-steel bear "jail" and move them 10 miles north. In years with a late freeze--most years since the late 1970s--the number of bears captured in or near town sometimes doubles, to more than...