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...THEY WORK? A good model like the Advantage 1000 CBA-RCA does, but you have to be wearing it when the gas hits. To do that, you have to know when to put it on, and unfortunately some biological and chemical weapons have no odor (see air sniffer). Surplus Israeli army models can't be trusted to be in good condition. Fiber masks designed for medical workers keep out some germs but not chemical or biological weapons...
...response to the terrorist attack but is informed by it. Fighting with its gloves off, our government is in the rare and enviable position of ignoring such polite fictions as the Social Security “lockbox” and the desirability of running the country at a budget surplus. Now is the time, when the economy is cooling off and Americans are unusually accepting of interferences to their normal routines, to rebuild the infrastructure of this country from the ground...
...that weren't hard enough, Bush must battle the recession while he fights with Congress. Democrats are accusing the other party of recklessly wasting the surplus and endangering Social Security. The White House insists that it can juggle the economy and the budget battle without dropping its focus on the rest of the President's agenda. Bush needs to speak out enough about the slowdown so voters don't think he's detached, his advisers say, but he shouldn't talk about it so much that he keeps the woe on the front page--or worse, adds to darkening consumer...
...letting no cable show go unvisited in order to blame the hard times on the President. They declare with straight faces that the slowdown didn't "really" kick in until moments after Bush took the oath of office, and they delight in the opportunity provided by the shrinking surplus to accuse Republicans of raiding the Social Security trust fund and "endangering our seniors." Though intellectually suspect, it's a potent attack. Republicans returned to Congress after the recess to an internal poll that showed that voters' concern about the future of their retirement system had doubled...
...second item on the agenda was money. There would be no arguments: A truce had been called in the bitter political war over dipping into the hundreds of billions of dollars piling up in the Social Security surplus. They'd dip into the fund. The men huddled in Hastert's office debated how much would be needed. The White House already had told Congress it wanted $20 billion to help rebuild the damaged Pentagon, deal with the New York catastrophe and bolster security. But $20 billion might not be enough, one of the leaders said. "You're probably right," Lott...