• KERRY, BUSH PUSH ECONOMIC THEMES President Bush and John Kerry introduced new themes Friday on taxes and home ownership as they sought to cast themselves as the best hope to restore economic growth.
• WASHPOST: OFF WITH THEIR ADS Microsoft Corp. is the latest software concern taking aim at one of the great banes of online life -- those annoying ads for diet plans, credit cards and low mortgage rates that suddenly appear on your computer screen while you are perusing your favorite Web page, forcing you to click on them to turn them off.
• BUSH SEEKS BROADBAND FOR ALL President Bush urged Friday that affordable high-speed Internet access be available to all Americans by 2007, saying it was essential to the nation’s economic growth, but he did not say how to accomplish it.
• FDA APPROVES RAPID ORAL TEST FOR AIDS VIRUS The Food and Drug Administration approved the first rapid oral test for the HIV virus that causes AIDS, health officials announced Friday, providing a new option for people nervous about blood testing.
• TODAY: HOW TO SAVE FOR BABY’S COLLEGE Recent rules make it (a little) easier to pay for your child’s higher education. Jean Chatzky has the details, plus a tax tip.
• KENYA: CALL OF THE WILD From Mt. Kilimanjaro to the Serengeti Plains, discover Kenyan safaris that allow you to get up-close and personal with the animals, and save.
• REYNOLDS: BUSH GETS LUCKY Are there legitimate criticisms of the Bush Administration's approach to terror that can be made? No doubt. Is Clarke making them? Nope. If Bush political advisor Karl Rove were paying Clarke as part of a campaign to discredit the opposition, he could hardly do better.
• BUSH, CLINTON VARIED LITTLE ON TERRORISM For all the sniping over efforts by the Bush and Clinton administrations to thwart terrorism, information from this week's hearings into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks suggests that the two administrations pursued roughly the same policies before the terrorist strikes occurred.
/peacock_7788aa.gif){kind=small}
