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Senate Votes to Allow Importing of Prescription Drugs From Canada After today's vote, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, went to the Senate floor and denounced the underlying Medicare legislation. Mrs. Clinton said the bill would create a confusing, bureaucratic "Medicare maze." She made her point with a chart reminiscent of the one Republicans used in 1994 to ridicule the plan Mrs. Clinton had developed as first lady to guarantee health insurance for all Americans.

is anybody surprised?
Report Says U.N. Embargo Does Little to Halt Al Qaeda (washingtonpost.com) A key weakness in the U.N. sanctions regime, the panel says, is the submission by U.N. members of lists of terrorist suspects who are inadequately identified or whose names are misspelled. For instance, 34 individuals on the list are identified by only a single name. Further confusion has been caused by the varied translations of names from Arabic to English and other languages.
The United States and other governments have also been reluctant to put the names of some suspected terrorists on the U.N. terrorism list in bids to maintain secrecy as they conduct their own investigations. "There have been some reports of known al Qaeda members, not on the list, having been turned back, detained or arrested while in transit," the report says.

DesMoinesRegister.com | Opinion I can't figure how Republicans win elections when at least 80 percent of the people would be better served by Democrats

A Stranger in Faris By Eric Umansky The Wall Street Journal says that with growing concern about the cost of rebuilding, the White House is tossing around the idea of helping to pay for it by issuing Iraqi securities (aka debt) backed by future Iraqi oil revenues.

i'm not a financial planner or anything, but doesn't this sound a bit like kenny-boy talk?

A Stranger in Faris By Eric Umansky "These guys are growing in resistance, and they're still being troublesome, and you have to ask what's motivating them," said one defense official

i dont have to ask. do you? it's plain as day. their motivation is for the occupation to get the hell out. can we say palestinian?

DesMoinesRegister.com | News Coverage would not start again until the cost rises to a total of $5,800 annually. At that point, Medicare would cover 90 percent of the costs over that amount.

i'd sure like to know why there's a gap
DesMoinesRegister.com | News After seniors pay the first $275 out-of-pocket under the Senate plan, Medicare would pick up half the cost of each prescription up to $4,500 a year. At that point, Medicare recipients would encounter a major gap in coverage

violence? and just why is that mr secretary?
CBS News | Deadly Attacks On U.S. Forces | June 19, 2003 17:42:49 "You've got to remember that if Washington, D.C., were the size of Baghdad, we would be having something like 215 murders a month," said Rumsfeld. "There's going to be violence in a big city."

globegazette.com - North Iowa Local News Headlines Heard Moerman report that the city's participation in challenging Alliant Energy's statewide "equalization" rate policy will save Alliant customers in Mason City $858,000 a year. Legal fees for the city totaled $20,110.