March 2004 Top Ten Articles

3/22/2004 The Guardian (London) ************ VoteMeter	Bush ignored terror threat, claims ex-aide George Bush's re-election campaign suffered a blow yesterday when the president's former chief counter-terrorism adviser accused him of doing "a terrible job" in protecting America against attack, largely because of a fixation on Iraq.
3/22/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	Despite the Sluggish Economy, Welfare Rolls Actually Shrank In a trend that has surprised many experts, the federal welfare rolls have declined over the last three years, even as unemployment, poverty and the number of food stamp recipients have surged in a weak economy.
3/10/2004 Los Angeles Times ************ VoteMeter	Obesity Gaining on Tobacco as Top Killer Bad diets and inactivity are rampant and could cancel out many health advances, studies say.
3/21/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	New Studies Question Value of Opening Arteries A new and emerging understanding of how heart attacks occur indicates that increasingly popular aggressive treatments may be doing little or nothing to prevent them.
3/30/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	At the Center of the Storm Over Bush And Science The average scientific dispute is a joust in obscurity, a clash over technical matters that few but the immediate combatants grasp or are even aware of.
3/29/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	Hamas Leader Calls Bush Foe of Muslims The new Hamas leader, Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, said Sunday that President Bush is the enemy of Muslims and that God has declared war on the United States.
3/25/2004 Toronto Star ************ VoteMeter	Fog of war still hasn't lifted One year after the bombing of Baghdad, we know that the White House and the Pentagon prevaricated their way into Iraq. This while the media waved them on in a flag-flying frenzy that CBS's Dan Rather called "patriotism run amok."
3/21/2004 The Guardian (London) ************ VoteMeter	Iraq: Blair and Bush seek new UN backing The United Nations is to be given a lead role in post-occupation Iraq under British and American plans to shore up crumbling international support for the continuing military presence in the country.
3/10/2004 Washington Post ************ VoteMeter	From Hubble: Now, That's Deep Snapshot Back to Edge of Big Bang Shows Chaotic Galaxies
3/10/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	Images Reveal Deepest Glance Into Universe Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope said Tuesday that they had reached far enough out in space and back in time to be within "a stone's throw" of the Big Bang itself.