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...Many budding business owners grow wide-eyed at the prospect of generous tax deductions including those for business expenses ranging from travel and entertainment to home-office and computer costs. But many have no clue what is permitted and what will bring the IRS knocking at their doors. "There are many misconceptions about the tax laws, where people say, 'My neighbor told me I could do this,'" says Jackie Perlman, a tax analyst at H&R Block's Tax Institute. And a wrong or uninformed decision can affect the ultimate success or failure of the new business...
According to Lars E. Hernquist, professor of astrophysics and another co-researcher, D’Onghia’s findings are important because they uncover specific properties about the formation of galaxies. With her findings, astronomers have another clue as to how galaxies interacted in the younger universe. He explained that this information can help eventually explain how lighter galaxies, such as the Milky Way, were formed...
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...knows what that reason was, but a theory about Ardi's social behavior may hold a clue. Lovejoy thinks Ar. ramidus had a social system found in no other primates except humans. Among gorillas and chimps, males viciously fight other males for the attention of females. But among Ardipithecus, says Lovejoy, males may have abandoned such competition, opting instead to pair-bond with females and stay together in order to rear their offspring (though not necessarily monogamously or for life). The evidence of this harmonious existence comes from, of all things, Ardipithecus' teeth: its canine teeth are relatively stubby compared...
...Fourth Plenum of the 17th Congress, which just concluded in Beijing, fits the bill perfectly. In fact, the Plenum, the Party's biggest annual meeting at which major policy and personnel decisions are made, is being compared to the Sherlock Homes storyline in which the most significant clue is something that did not occur - the guard dog that didn't bark on the night of the murder. At the characteristically secretive Plenum, the equivalent clue into the mystery of who will be China's next leader was the fact that Xi Jinping, the man widely touted as the most likely...