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With inflation at its current low rate of 3%, the two alternatives are a wash for those in the highest tax bracket: a stock bought at $100 and rising 10% a year for a decade generates an after-tax profit of about $125 in either tax scheme. Now, all those who think inflation will remain at 3% forever, raise your hands. Hmmm, just what I thought. The risk is that inflation will pick up, and at just 4% annual inflation the numbers start to make indexing a better deal for individuals. That, unfortunately, translates into a cost for the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAPITAL GAINS AND GAMES | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

RANCHO SANTA FE, California: Perfection, as any website designer will tell you, is absolutely essential in HTML coding. Misplace a bracket, spell a command wrong, and the whole page could come crashing down. So when it came time to die, the 39 members of a mysterious San Diego cult went about it in the same precise manner they had conducted Higher Source, their web design business. The suicide plan was meticulously organized. Each member received a hand-written recipe with suicide instructions: take the package of pudding or apple sauce, stir in the drug phenobarbital and eat it, quickly drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recipe for Death | 3/27/1997 | See Source »

...this happen when Kansas (32-1), the unanimous number one team in the country, has to get by Duke (23-8)? And Kentucky (29-4), the defending champion, is in a bracket with Utah (26-3) and Wake Forest...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Kansas Over Kentucky | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

Kansas has senior leadership in the backcourt (Jacque Vaughn and Jerod Haase) and a great inside game with the twin ivory towers, Scot Pollard and Raef LaFrentz. I'd go ahead and put Kansas in the space in your bracket where it says "Champion...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Kansas Over Kentucky | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

...freshman Kevin Kurtz lost both of his matches in the double-elimination tournament. Sophomore Luke Golpe also was shut out in the 177-pound bracket...

Author: By Nick Pilgrim, | Title: Harvard Wrestlers Win Big in Las Vegas | 12/10/1996 | See Source »

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