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...surprised to read that the animal-rights group PETA gave you an award last year...
...fact a planet or whether new findings place it in a family of smaller, humbler objects. The problem is more complex than just firing a planet and downsizing the solar system from nine to eight. If you keep your definitions loose enough to retain Pluto, then you have to award the planet label to at least three similar objects in our solar system. Think Congress gets into a slapfest over the problem of immigrant workers? That's civil compared with astronomers' catfights over immigrant worlds...
...action comes in response to a crackdown on swag by the IRS that began several months ago. In March, just before the Academy Awards, the tax agency released a memo cautioning recipients that gift baskets are income and that ?movie stars face the same tax obligations as ordinary Americans.? The crackdown may have something to do with the fact that the Academy Award gift bags this year were valued at more than $100,000 each, and included such goodies as a four-night $25,000 Hawaiian vacation and $7,000 worth of Victoria Secret undies. In total, unreported gift bags...
...nations (and when they do imbibe, the preferred drinks tend to be brandy and beer, respectively). Singapore, where average per capita alcohol consumption barely notches three liters a year, is not that much different - and yet it recently became home to a branch of La Maison du Whisky, an award-winning whisky stockist headquartered in Paris. The new offshoot, tel: (65) 6733 0059, hopes to educate the Southeast Asian market - as well as provide succor to thirsty visitors and the area's sprinkling of whisky fans - with its splendid selection of 700 premium blends and malts, housed...
With his Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now due out in a DVD set this month and production of his next movie, Youth Without Youth, completed, Academy Award--winning director, vintner and hotelier Francis Ford Coppola talks with TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan about why all war movies are antiwar movies, what grapes have done for his filmmaking career and what he has learned from his daughter, Oscar-winning screenwriter Sofia Coppola...