Iraq veto stands; Dems vow new push to end war

Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 06:04:50 -0500

NEWS

Mentally ill die 25 years earlier, on average
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Adults with serious mental illness treated in public systems die about
25
years earlier than Americans overall, a gap that's widened since the
early '90s when major mental disorders cut life spans by 10 to 15
years,
according to a report due Monday.

Iraq veto stands; Dems vow new push to end war
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Congressional leaders from both parties predicted quick approval of
emergency
funding for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan on Wednesday,
after
the House fell 62 votes short of overriding President Bush's veto of a
bill
setting a deadline for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.

MONEY

Fund's value rises when Castro ails
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Some stocks and the mutual funds that own them rise and fall in response
to
earnings or new-product announcements. Then there's the Herzfeld
Caribbean
Basin fund (ticker: CUBA). It tends to gain and drop according to the
health
of Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Corporate guru sees trouble in globalization
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Whenever U.S. corporations establish factories overseas, they can count
on
taking flak from labor unions, lawmakers and left-of-center economists.