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...centuries-old shop fronts. Green Shoes, tel: (44-1803) 864997, cobbles to order "vegan" footwear from a synthetic leather called Lorica. A few doors down, Willow Vegetarian Garden, tel: (44-1803) 862205, serves mostly organic food and drink in a tasteful, rustic dining room. Nearby, small boutiques boast Japanese, British and other European designer threads, while others hawk surf and skater wear. And despite its ramshackle-sounding name, housewares retailer Tumble Home, tel: (44-1803) 863024, stocks a collection of funky furniture. If you'd like to spend the night, try Norwegian Wood, tel: (44-1803) 867462, located five minutes...
Children are slipping through other cracks in the government's optimistic report. The infant-mortality rate, for example, is twice as high among blacks as among whites. Children living in poverty are at greater risk for violent crime. And while the U.S. may boast of soaring high-school-graduation rates, children in poor families are still six times as likely as those in wealthier families to drop out. "So much of this is driven by child poverty," says Parker. "In 2002, more than 12 million children were poor, and those figures were up from both...
...Vegas casino operators are placing their biggest bets on China, where an age-old penchant for gambling is dovetailing with the world's fastest-growing economy. Millionaires are being minted every day in China, and the World Trade Organization predicts the country's booming middle class will boast half a billion people by 2014. "And frankly," says MGM Mirage CEO Terry Lanni, "there's not much to do with that money there to enjoy yourself." Enter Macau, the former Portuguese colony handed over to China in 1999. Last year some 12 million visitors poured into the 23-sq-km territory...
...taking a hard look at how to fix their tax mess. As the debate takes off across Europe, three potent ideas are emerging that suggest it may be possible to make a difference without tipping even further into the red. Smarter Taxes One "old" E.U. country that likes to boast about its tax policies is Ireland, which has over the past 15 years pared back the basic rate for personal income tax to 20% from 35% and has also slashed capital gains and corporate taxes. The tax wedge in Ireland has dropped by 18 percentage points to 24.5% over...
...body ultimately chose Jefferson, and later passed the 12th Amendment to avoid a same-party tie in the future. But the real significance of Jefferson's Inauguration three weeks later was that it was the first peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another. Jefferson's boast of faith in his public was in the end justified...