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That's how it's supposed to work, but unsealed documents show how some companies steer you to more expensive prescriptions that help line their pockets. Shuttle takes first Israeli into space CAPE CANAVERAL -- The space shuttle Columbia launched into clear skies Thursday, embarking on a 16-day research mission with Israel's first astronaut. U.N. team finds warheads in Iraq, no 'smoking gun' The chemical weapons warheads "should have been declared and destroyed," an inspector says. Washington in brief: Senate GOP blocks added security funding WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans thwarted Democratic efforts Thursday to pump extra homeland security funds into a vast $390-billion spending bill as GOP lawmakers backed President Bush's call to restrain the price. VA blocks some vets' health care Upper-income veterans cannot enroll to get care for ailments unrelated to their service. Sex offender run out of three states LAS NUTRIAS, N.M. -- A convicted sex offender has been chased, punched, followed by police, filmed from TV helicopters and harassed by protesters since his release from prison four months ago. Nation in brief: Professor is denied bail in plague case LUBBOCK, Texas -- The government charged a Texas Tech University professor with lying to investigators Thursday, saying he accidentally destroyed 30 vials of plague bacteria, then claimed they had vanished from his laboratory. Obituaries C. DOUGLAS DILLON, 93, a Wall Street investment banker and diplomat who served as secretary of the treasury in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, died Jan. 10 in New York City. Under both presidents, he led the Alliance for Progress, a program to spur economic development in Latin America, an effort he had spearheaded as a founder of the Inter-American Development Bank. In 1989, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. Unions want delay in U.S. smallpox vaccinations WASHINGTON -- Citing safety concerns, the nation's two largest health care unions want a delay in smallpox vaccinations. But the Bush administration said Thursday it will move ahead as planned, with inoculations to begin next week. Report: Freedom spreads in world NEW YORK -- Countries around the world witnessed no major loss of civil liberties in 2002, even as they struggled to find a balance between security and freedom in the fight against terrorism, according to an annual report on world democracy. Lords to sue over being kicked out of House LONDON -- The 3rd Baron Mereworth says he was robbed. National headlines World headlines Science headlines
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