WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) - Washington Post included the following items on its front page on March 24. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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The U.S. military showcases Fallujah as a model city where U.S. policies are finally paying off and is spending hundreds of millions of dollars in the region to promote the rule of law and a variety of nation-building efforts. But the security that has been achieved there is fragile.

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Recent history has not been kind to working-class Americans, who were down on the economy long before the word recession was uttered. The main reason: spiraling health-care costs have been whacking away at their wages.

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A government laptop computer containing sensitive medical information on 2,500 patients enrolled in a National Institutes of Health study was stolen in February, potentially exposing seven years' worth of clinical trial data.

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Unlike governors, business leaders or vice presidents, U.S. senators are not executives. They cannot be held to account for the state of their states, their companies or their administrations. What they do have is the mark they leave on the U.S.laws -- and in Sen. Barack Obama's three-year tenure, as well as Sen. Hillary Clinton's seven-year hitch, those marks are far from indelible.

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