Reps. Luis Gutierrez and Jeff Flake ended months of hyped speculation when they debuted their comprehensive immigration reform bill. The two had been working with Sens. John McCain and Ted Kennedy on a bill to kick off debate on the supersensitive issue this year. Negotiations fell apart in the Senate, however, when Republicans not included in the deal–such as ranking Judiciary Committee member Sen. Arlen Specter–took their gripes to the White House. That left the House, unexpectedly, to take the first steps forward on reform.
If you do a Google search for isotretinoin, also known as Accutane, a new Food and Drug Administration website is apt to figure high among your hits. The site warns consumers about the risks of buying the highly potent prescription acne medication and its generic versions–Amnesteem, Claravis, and Sotret–over the Internet. FDA officials were prompted to act by concerns that people might be seriously endangering their health by taking the drug–and possibly substandard formulations–without a doctor's guidance.
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/article.php?id=LJS2007032201 University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato in his Crystal Ball blog takes a look at demographers' predictions of the political effect of the reapportionments following the censuses of 2010, 2020,and 2030. Bottom line: The Bush 2004 states will gain 17 electoral votes; the Kerry 2004 states will lose 17 electoral votes. (Sabato assumes that the District of Columbia will gain 1 electoral vote; http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/baroneblog/archives/070322/will_the_distri.htm, I disagree.) According to these projections, Florida will gain 9 electoral votes, Texas 8, Arizona 5, California 3, Nevada and North Carolina 2 each. New York will lose 6 electoral votes, Ohio and Pennsylvania 4 each, Illinois 3, Massachusetts and Michigan 2 each. The lineup of electoral votes will look very different from today, and very different from what prevailed in the 1960 election (which was determined by the 1950 census), the first election I followed closely. Consider the figures below for what are projected to be the dozen largest states:
AP - A powerful undersea earthquake Monday in the South Pacific sent a tsunami several yards high crashing into the Solomon Islands, devastating at least one village, officials and residents said.
AP - More airline passengers bumped, more bags lost and fewer on-time flights. For the third year in a row, those problems grew worse for the industry, according to annual study that rates airline quality.
AP - A volunteer search team found the bodies of two young brothers encased in ice on the Red Lake Indian Reservation Sunday, more than four months after they disappeared, authorities said.
At least six people have died in the Solomon Islands after two earthquakes and a tsunami hit the western part of the island-chain nation today, the country's chief spokesman said. Alfred Maesulia also indicated that 10 to 20 people are missing in scattered island villages.
New video of two of the 15 British military detainees being held in Iran was aired on the state-run television Sunday. The video showed the men in front of a map, apparently indicating their location when they were taken. In Tehran, hundreds of students gathered at the British embassy to protest the alleged British incursion into Iranian waters.
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