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...months after the patties were produced, and is definitely too late for four people in Colorado who downed a few last month and got sick. Hudson doubts any of the burgers are still on store shelves, but says you should check your freezer for 48-ounce packages with the code 156A7, three-pounders (156B7) and 15-pound boxes (155B7). Especially dangerous to children, the elderly and people with weak immune systems, E.Coli can cause dehydration and diarrhea. I'll just have a salad, thanks...
Computer scientists benefit from vox-pop research too. In 1994, four encryption experts enlisted 600 Internet volunteers to crack a secret code protected by a software "key" 129 digits long. Its creators had estimated that it would take 40 quadrillion years to solve the puzzle; the online team did it in eight months and in the process gave software designers new insights into building better security systems. Hackers have become so adept at finding security holes in the Internet that Netscape, maker of the leading Web browser, pays a bounty for any chinks in the program's encryption armor that...
Excite and Yahoo! May sound like the happiest places on the Web, but their party is about to get crashed. For more than six months, a team at Microsoft has been working on its own search engine/-directory, code-named Yukon. The company should have a beta version up by October, with a launch date of January. Yukon will most probably be released directly on the Web, not on MSN, the company's members-only Net service meant to compete with AOL. Rumors of BILL GATES' foray into the Web's most popular genre have been floating around Silicon Valley...
Complexity aside, there is a strong argument that using the tax code is an inefficient and expensive way to accomplish economic or social goals. Most economists will tell you that multiplying IRAs is unlikely to prompt the additional savings the U.S. economy needs; investors may only shift money out of less favored forms of savings. As for college-tuition tax breaks, Richard Murnane, an education professor at Harvard, fears they will turn into "subsidies for middle-class parents sending kids to college. Most middle-class parents do that already, so there's not much gain." Then there...
These arguments are being overpowered by pure (if that is the word) politics. In a political climate that has made increased government spending taboo, the tax code is the best remaining means to hand out rewards to constituents. This is why even Republicans who were whooping it up for a flat tax last year (for instance, House majority leader Dick Armey) are now advocating a change as complex as indexing capital gains for inflation (Armey again). That's also why the new tax bill is being stuffed with special breaks for everyone from whaling captains to sky divers...