| PEOPLE |
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Annual
Streaker Awards Given Out
Roy Pascual (pictured)
accepts for Best New
Face. |
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| POLITICS |
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War Creating Rift Among
Conservatives
Neocons, paleocons, religious fundamentalists,
reactionaries, monarchists, America-firsters,
tax rebels, neofascists find themselves at odds. |
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| BUSINESS |
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Halliburton, Bechtel, Fluor to Combine Assets
New company's name will be "The
Three Profiteers." |
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Worker Productivity Sets
Record in '02
Those not laid off are working their
butts off. |
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Administration Confident
Nation
Will Avoid Second Recession
By declaring that first one never ended. |
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| ODDS AND ENDS |
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 Counterfeit-Proof
Currency Unveiled
Treasury Secretary Snow
shows off new bill, which
is “just plain too
big” to be copied. |
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| SCIENCE |
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Breakthrough: New Battery
Runs on Shots of Vodka
An electric swizzle stick could
theoretically operate forever. |
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Computer Model of Neanderthal
Hand Shows Equal Dexterity with Modern
Man
Pushes back advent of card tricks by two
million years. |
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| IRONIC TIMES POLL |
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Majority Think War is Going
Well
Fifty-one percent describe
coalition's progress as good. |
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| HEALTH / MEDICINE |
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Study: Viagra Can Help
Protect Against Heart Attacks
Caused by Viagra. |
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Study Finds More Spending on
Medicare Patients Doesn't
Improve Outcomes
No spending at all may be most effective. |
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| ALSO IN THE NEWS ... |
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Pentagon
Revises Estimate of
Iraq War Casualties
Changed from "just a handful"
to "in the hundreds of
thousands." |
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