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Here is the Scripps Howard News Service NEWS budget for Monday, Jan. 29, 2007. If you have questions or comments, SHNS editors can be reached at 202-408-1484. For all SHNS content and archives, visit our Web site at www.shns.com.
WASHINGTON
CONGRESS-ENERGY (Coile, San Francisco Chronicle) _ WASHN: The Senate begins hearings this week on competing proposals to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. 550.
ELLISON (Hotakainen, McClatchy Newspapers) _ WASHN: If campaign talk means anything, there'd be at least one sure vote on the House Judiciary Committee to impeach President Bush if the matter ever came up. It would come from freshman Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison. 400.
POLITICS
2008RACE (O'Toole, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) _ Recommended for weekend use. The 2008 presidential race will be shaped, in unpredictable ways, by a parallel competition among states leapfrogging one another in pursuit of a greater voice in the nominating process. 1,000.
EDUCATION
EDU-TUITION (Boak, Toledo Blade) _ Tuition freezes have reached elite schools. 650.
NATIONAL
GAYFAMILIES (Buchanan, San Francisco Chronicle) _ Armed with a slick handbook and coaching from daylong seminars, gay and lesbian parents across the country are learning to present the most convincing case that their families are normal, even mainstream. 650.
GIRLS (Ove, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) _ Recommended for weekend use. Have girls really gone wild? A U.S. Justice Department report, under internal review and due out in about a month, will largely conclude that they haven't _ or at least that there's no data to support that they have. 850.
HEALTH AND SCIENCE
VIRTUALMETAB (Bowman, SHNS) _ Bioengineers have assembled a virtual human metabolic network that should give scientists a new way to seek out treatments for everything from diabetes to high cholesterol levels. 500.
HOMEBIRTHS (Hamilton, Salt Lake Tribune) _ SALT LAKE CITY: While giving birth at home was once the norm, most women now choose to give birth in a hospital or birthing center under the care of an obstetrician/gynecologist. Utah women, who surpass the national average in having babies at home, show why the practice is still a preferred one for some expectant mothers. 600.
DELTAROCKET (Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle) _ A Delta II rocket, the workhorse of NASA's space missions, will carry an unprecedented payload of five small satellites into orbit in the coming weeks. 650.
TELESCOPE (Erickson, SHNS) _ BOULDER, Colo.: A planet-hunting telescope is under construction here and will launch in November 2008. 450.
