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GUEST COLUMN: In addition to universal health care, our next president should create an American Center for Cures -- a cabinet-level authority charged with fighting life-threatening disease. By the time our next president takes the office, 50 million Americans will be living and working without health insurance. By the time he or she seeks re-election, health care costs in the United States will reach $3 trillion -- with medical costs rising twice as fast as workers' wages. For those reasons, health care is at the center of the presidential debate this year. We believe America needs a universal health care...

The U.S. Senate candidates spent Monday campaigning in Knoxville — Bob Corker with some of the top guns of the GOP and Democrat Harold Ford Jr. at "shake-and-howdy" at Calhoun’s at Bearden. Both events each drew about 100 enthusiastic supporters. Corker’s campaign stop featured Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. Corker, former Chattanooga mayor, and U.S. Rep. Ford of Memphis are vying for Frist’s seat; Frist is vacating the Senate to consider a race for the White House in 2008. The election is Tuesday. Despite the dominance...