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Rolling the Dice

Cover Story | How a bill becomes a law, part one-WORLD's exclusive look at the House debate over President Bush's faith-based initiative

In this issue: "Rolling the dice," Aug. 4, 2001

Features

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Cybercrime doesn't pay

National |  The Justice Department sets up a special hacking and copyright unit, the Pentagon battles a worm, and a would-be rocketeer plans his own personal space flight

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King of artificial hearts

National |  Self-contained heart pump keeps a man alive, the AHA revises estrogen standards, and Connecticut regulates Ritalin advocacy in schools

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401 KO'd

National |  Retirement plans slide; investigators uncover an insurance fraud ring; and growth in temp workers slows

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Surplus of spendthrifts

National |  The budget surplus is dwindling because politicians use it for their own interests, not the public interest

Dispatches

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Quotables

All of the sudden it happened. Xue Donghua, after his wife, Gao Zhan, was convicted of spying charges in China and then released on "medical parole." Chinese…

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Faces

By age 29, Millard Fuller had a reputation as a glitzy millionaire lawyer, but he struggled with health problems and a troubled marriage. That changed in…

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QuickTakes

ITCHY TAX FINGER: Dick Gephardt dropped hints about a post-2002 tax increase campaign. Donald Lambro reported in The Washington Times that the House Minority…

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Flash Traffic

Political buzz from Washington

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The Buzz

The pope and the president discuss stem-cell research at meeting in Italy Message of conscience President Bush's self-described "unusually deliberative" focus…

Reviews

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The forgotten Founder

Culture |  The new John Adams biography outsells John Grisham

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The Music

Culture |  The Top 5 CDs in the United Kingdom, for the week of July 8, according to Dotmusic.com

Voices

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Scary precursor

Let's not even think about heading down this road

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A Sabbath proposal

It may fit our schedule, but not Scripture's

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Sounds of silence

Bush initiative gets through the House, but what now?

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Mailbag

Mama moments I was thinking about joy in my life as I read "Joy." I have felt it in many moments like Mr. Olasky's baseball game. It could have been a sunset,

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