Scott Evertz, Bush's pick to be AIDS czar, favors needle exchange programs for drug addicts to cut the spread of the disease - a position anathema to most conservatives. That includes John Walters, rumored to be Bush's choice to be drug czar. Walters, who is a hardliner on going after drug traffickers, is vociferously against the idea. Evertz has at least one Cabinet ally - Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who as Wisconsin governor embraced such exchanges. Fed up with gridlock, road rage and rocketing gasoline prices, Americans are flocking to public transportation in droves.
Rail transit is the fastest growing.
In Washington, so many are using the Metro that a new line must be built to carry them all, officials said last week. On at least one front, the U.S. and China have found common ground, though the road was far from easy. It took 11 months of wrangling by Women's United Soccer Association executive Lauren Gregg to convince the Chinese to give permission for a half-dozen Chinese soccer stars to play for U.S. women's professional teams. If I don't have my reading glasses I can't read it.