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Texas is launching the nation's most ambitious high school testing program for steroids in the coming months, but few expect the effort to catch many offenders.

The $6 million, two-year experiment will reach less than 3 percent of the state's 750,000 high school athletes each year – all in a search for the estimated 2 percent of Texas students believed to use steroids.

The short history of steroid testing in public schools has yielded little, if anything. In the handful of local school districts that already test for steroids, no positive test has been reported. The same is true for limited state programs in Florida and New Jersey.

"It's like looking for a needle in a haystack," said Lloyd Johnston, a noted researcher at the University of Michigan.

"My guess is that the payoff relative to the cost won't be high."

Some critics also question the state's policy decision to go after steroids when the illegal use of other drugs, including marijuana, heroin and prescription drugs, is far more common among teenagers.

Schreck named Corvallis’ First Citizen

For 30 years, Larson has been a community leader in creating breakthrough programs such as integrated preschool, outpatient mental health and speech therapy. Her Old Mill Center has grown from serving eight families at its inception to more than 1,500 today.Robert C. Ingalls Business Person of the Year: Lyle Hutchens of Devco Engineering. Hutchens was recognized for his reputation for honesty, fairness and integrity in business. He serves as a board member of the Greenbelt Land Trust and other local organizations.Business of the Year: Stover Neyhart & Co., tax and financial consulting service. For 33 years, Stover Neyhart has served small businesses and individuals in the Corvallis area. Partners and staff also volunteer on numerous boards and committees including the Corvallis City Club Steering Committee, OSU Athletic Board, OSU College of Business Dean's Circle of Excellence Advisory Board and Willamette Neighborhood Housing Board.

Sarkozy vows to bring rioters to justice

When you immigrate, you make a decision that affects your offspring for generations. When you invite immigrants, you make a decision that not only affects the immigrants' offspring, but that of your own. Immigrants need to take responsibility for raising their children in a manner befitting their new country and face the reality that they've put things from their old country behind them, without expecting the host country to accommodate every last one of their needs. Host countries need to take responsibility for the fact that they didn't, and still don't, want to scrub toilets, pick fruit, sweep floors and clean streets because they believed they have somehow evolved to the zenith of humanitarianism, while forgetting that reconstruction involves more than just a coffee break whenever the going gets tough.

Lieutenant colonel Greg Gadson is Giants' inspirational co-captain

He was there as an honorary co-captain of the Giants, there on the sideline at Lambeau because this Giants' season has become his season now and he wasn't going to watch from some box. This is a Giant at the Super Bowl worth knowing about, as much as any of them.

He played at West Point between 1985 and 1988, and one of his teammates was Mike Sullivan, who played cornerback and some safety and is now one of Tom Coughlin's assistants with the Giants. When Sullivan and so many other of Gadson's teammates found out what had happened on the night of May 7, found that Gadson had first lost his left leg to arterial infections and then his right, it brought that old Army team back together.

Trasylol Pulled From Worldwide Market

MONDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Bayer AG suspended worldwide sales of Trasylol, a clotting drug using during heart surgery to prevent bleeding, on Monday following a request from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to remove the drug from the American market for safety reasons.

Caucus Math Is Hard!

The former Green Party candidate has been publicly mulling a 2008 run for the past few months, but says he hasn't yet made a decision. He'll know by the end of the year, he says, depending on whether he can drum up the necessary resources and staff. But either way, he wouldn't consider running as a Democrat. When he spoke at the Green Party's national convention in July, he got a warm reception. Did they want him to run again? "I got that sense," he said.

Polling a Fast One: CNN wants you to think it stumbled across stunning revelations in its New Hampshire poll released Wednesday. Yet all the news that CNN has tried to squeeze out of it manages to be both flimsy and stale because of the admittedly high number of undecided New Hampshire voters.