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Lost in the health-care shuffle was a tax break that about 12 million self-employed Americans have relied on. Their 25 percent deduction for health-insurance expenses, which had expired in 1993, washed away today along with health care reform -- even though key figures in both parties were going to raise the incentive to 100 percent.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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