Gore proposes lock box to protect Medicare surplus from tax cuts
Vice President Al Gore outlines a New York plan to stash Medicare surpluses in a debt-reduction lock box and reinvest interest to extend solvency beyond 2023. He contrasts the idea with George W. Bush's tax-cut proposal while noting demographics looming over the program.
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al Gore
New York
Gore
Treasury
Congress
White House
Robert Reischauer
Urban Institute
Congressional Budget Office
George W. Bush
Bush
Ari Fleischer
Nuclear secrets vanish from Los Alamos vault
U S authorities report missing computer stored nuclear secrets from Los Alamos National Laboratory vaults. Investigators review security, access logs, and possible links to last months forest fire evacuation. Officials say no evidence yet of espionage and no charges against Wen Ho Lee.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
Energy Department
John Browne
Federal Weapons Research Lab
New Mexico
Wen Ho Lee
U.S
China
Lee
Ed Curran
Counterintelligence Office
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Los Alamos
X Division
Air Force
Eugene Habiger
Los Alamos Laboratory
Philip Morris CEO cites underage smoking concern and ad removal
Michael Szymanczyk, Philip Morris president and CEO, told a jury he removed cigarette ads from more than 40 magazines to keep children from seeing them. He warned the company risks losing credibility and profit if perceived as selling to kids as tobacco industry faces a Florida class-action trial. The jury has awarded $12.7 million in compensatory damages to three plaintiffs in the first nationally filed smoker class action to go to trial.
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Philip Morris Inc
Michael Szymanczyk
Philip Morris
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Philip Morris USA
Army chief warns of rising death by own action among troops
Army chief Gen. Eric Shinseki calls for action as personal crisis reports rise amid high suicide risk levels. Officials note the rate is highest in two decades, with 65 confirmed reports last year and 12 suspected deaths, and stress stigma reduction and a prevention booklet to encourage help seeking.
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