June 2004 Top Ten Articles

6/4/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	A Pentagon Plan Would Cut Back G.I.'s in Germany Pentagon policy makers said the aim is to afford maximum flexibility in sending forces to the Middle East, Central Asia and other potential battlegrounds.
6/1/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	U.S. Shifts Focus in Iraq to Aiding New Government Senior American commanders here say they are writing new orders to shift the focus of the military's mission from offensive combat operations to protecting a new Iraqi government and parts of the economy while building up Iraq's own security forces.
6/3/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	E.P.A. Nears Pact on Waste by Processors of Livestock In western Kentucky, Aloma Dew, a former history professor who is now a regional representative of the Sierra Club, said the air was so foul-smelling in some towns that she had organized a ''tour de stench" to call attention to how enormous the problem wa
6/2/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	Antidepressant Seen as Effective in Treatment of Adolescents ...a landmark government-financed study has found that Prozac helps teenagers overcome depression far better than talk therapy. But a combination of the two treatments, the study found, produced the best result.
6/1/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	In Oregon, Choosing Death Over Suffering Perhaps the most surprising thing to emerge from Oregon is how rarely the law has actually been used.
6/4/2004 New York Times ********** VoteMeter	U.S. to Make Deep Cuts in Stockpile of A-Arms Mr. Brooks said...that making the stockpile smaller would require more work on the remaining weapons. "We must continue the administration's efforts to restore the nuclear weapons infrastructure..."
6/6/2004 New York Times ****** VoteMeter	Lockboxes, Iraqi Loot and a Trail to the Fed Iraq, of course, had been subject to more than a decade of trade sanctions by the United States and the United Nations, so large piles of dollars, especially new bills, were not supposed to have found their way to Baghdad.
6/5/2004 New York Times ****** VoteMeter	$50 Billion Question: World, Where to Begin? ...the economic "dream team" decided that the best of the worst was controlling the spread of AIDS (worth $27 billion), followed by $12 billion for malnutrition and $13 billion to combat malaria.