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...born in Venice. He very briefly apprenticed with Titian but was driven out of the workshop, according to some sources, because Titian was jealous of Tintoretto's evident gifts. For whatever reason there was bad blood between them ever after, and there ensued many instances when one sought to block the other from getting work or to use a highly visible public commission to outdo the other's effort...
...federal income-tax structure in 1913. But for years personal-income-tax business for accountants remained a trickle--in 1918, only 5% of Americans earned enough to file returns. After the IRS cracked down on tax evaders in the 1950s, two Missouri brothers smelled opportunity and launched H&R Block, charging customers $5 each to make sure their returns were in order...
...1970s, homeownership and personal incomes grew--and so did tax rates and the increasingly complex tax code. Americans looking to reduce their liabilities turned to experts for advice on how much to donate to charity and what to claim as a business expense. By 1978, H&R Block was responsible for 1 in 9 returns; today the rate is 1 in 7. While many returns are prepared by employees at storefront-shops who take a short training course, there are some 400,000 certified public accountants in the U.S., who have passed a uniform test and are licensed by states...
...Prostate cancer, which kills 29,000 men in the U.S. each year, is a tenacious disease in advanced stages. The treatment of cancer that has metastasized beyond the prostate involves drugs that block male hormones, the androgens testosterone and dihydrotestosterone, which feed tumor growth. Antiandrogen drugs, like bicalutamide, work by binding to the androgen receptors on prostate-cancer cells, chemically preventing the hormones from interacting with the tumor. Over time, however, cancer cells become resistant to the drugs as the number of androgen receptors on the cells increases, and in a cruel twist, the drugs somehow begin to stimulate...
...reversal of plans exposes the administration’s unpreparedness with implementing calendar reform. Rather than first creating a clear plan for how the College would utilize the new January recess, the administration announced the change, and only a year later, decided how to approach the new three-week block...