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Inc. July 1, 2003 Bobbie Gossage	Back to the Future The tax cut makes this Bush look very Reaganesque.
Managed Care June 2003 John Carroll	Howard Dean, MD, Sees Universal Coverage as a Realistic Goal The former Vermont governor at first greeted managed care with good will. Now, however, he thinks it is shortsighted in its dealing with doctors. Unlike President Bush, he wouldn't call on it to rescue Medicare.
Managed Care June 2003	Malpractice Fury Raises Concerns About Access Protests by physicians over rising malpractice insurance premiums may be signaling a political shift that could make doctors see Republicans as their allies, a public-advocacy official thinks.
Information Today June 30, 2003 Barbara Quint	Public Libraries Face Net Filtering Following Supreme Court Decision The Children's Internet Protection Act, which mandates that libraries accepting federal funding to assist patrons with Internet access must use Net filters to block pornography, has withstood legal challenge. Across the country, public librarians began to struggle with its ramifications.
ifeminists June 24, 2003 Wendy McElroy	Of Family Law and Foreign Policy American foreign policy should not be flexed in what ultimately might be revealed to be a child custody dispute.
Knowledge@Wharton June 18, 2003	Fate Worse than Debt: Can the U.S. Deficit Rise to $45.47 Trillion? The U.S. government's future obligations outweigh its projected revenues so heavily that it would need a permanent income tax increase of 66% or the immediate elimination of all federal discretionary spending to put it on track for balancing its finances.
Information Today June 16, 2003 Miriam A. Drake	GPO and OMB Compromise on Agency Printing: More information at a lower cost? At the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1, GPO will develop a demonstration print procurement contract for an agency or department chosen by OMB. The program will feature an online system that allows federal agency GPO customers to use a one-stop and integrated system for print ordering and invoicing.
CIO June 15, 2003 Grant Gross	Lawmakers Get Creative to Fight Unwanted E-Mail Charging spammers with racketeering crimes and rewarding spam victims with a financial bounty are among the more creative solutions proposed by members of Congress to the problem of unsolicited e-mail.
Entrepreneur June 2003 Stephen Barlas	To Your Health An old health insurance bill gets a second chance at life.
Geotimes June 2003 Greg Peterson	Models of Iraq's toxic plume under fire Congressional auditors announced that the atmospheric dispersion models used to estimate the path a toxic plume followed after a 1991 bombing of Iraqi chemical warhead stockpiles were flawed and may have greatly underestimated the number of soldiers exposed to the chemicals.
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