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December 30, 2002
CQ News: Midday
  • Is Preventive Care a Cost Saver?
  • House Intelligence Panel's Report Warns of Emerging Threats
  • House Chairman Wants To Use Bailout Dividends for Affordable Housing Trust
  • Israeli army shoots into crowd; boy dies
    JERUSALEM -- In the second such incident in two days, Israeli troops Sunday fatally shot a Palestinian child, this one an 11-year-old boy who was killed when soldiers fired on a crowd of young stonethrowers in the northern West Bank town of Tulkarm.

    Drug testing works in schools, study finds
    PORTLAND, Ore. -- Student-athletes subject to random drug testing at an Oregon high school were almost four times less likely to use drugs than their counterparts at a similar school who were not tested, a study shows.

    Winner starts cash giveaway
    HURRICANE, W.Va. -- At the beginning of Sunday's service at the Tabernacle of Praise, Senior Pastor C.T. Mathews asked his parishioners for donations to the church's food pantry.

    State laws take on taxes, terror, health, pay
    Out with soaring jury awards, mercury thermometers and youngsters motor-boating without training. In with insurance coverage for substance abuse treatment, donation limits for judges' election campaigns and devices that prevent drivers from starting their cars when they're drunk.

    Fighting terror: Scientist snubbed al-Qaida's pursuit of atomic weapon
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A leading Pakistani nuclear scientist, barred by his government from talking to reporters, has made it known through his son that Osama bin Laden approached him before the Sept. 11 attacks for help in making nuclear weapons.

    FBI hunts 5 illegal immigrants
    WASHINGTON -- The FBI said Sunday it is looking for five men of Arab ancestry who may have entered the country illegally last week.

    Arabs prefer exile of Hussein over war
    AMMAN, Jordan -- Arab leaders looking for a way to avoid a U.S.-Iraq war they fear would ignite their volatile region are considering the possibility of pressing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to step down and go into exile, diplomats say.





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