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...lives frugally--as do more than a few billionaires in Silicon Valley--sharing a two-bedroom San Mateo apartment and a 6-ft.-wide-screen Mitsubishi television with co-Napsterite Sean Parker. The tables are strewn with old pizza boxes, empty Coke cans and, Napster notwithstanding, actual digital discs, both video and audio. The furniture is rented, the brown sofa often serving as a crash site for Fanning's 13-year-old brother Raymond, who is teaching himself to code while he stays with Fanning. They have never bothered to get a phone line installed; the cell phone works just...
...ritual prepare the six shamans--so removed from modernity that Don Nicolas can read the Incan code of knotted cords but speaks no Spanish--for the big city? The Dons call the DC-10 that brought them a "big bird." They don't know how to open a Coke can. As the van enters the Lincoln Tunnel, one of them remarks, "This is the Uccu Pacha"--the Underworld. What will they make of Times Square? Or of the Waldorf-Astoria, where the summit is based...
...speech, Gore tried breaking the tax cuts into the kind of currency all Americans can understand: diet soda. He warned that Bush's costly plan would deliver little to most Americans. The "average family," he said, would wind up with only enough additional money to buy an extra Diet Coke a week...
...Gore misspoke, as Bush's people were quick to point out. He meant to say that each family could buy an extra Diet Coke per day. And even that was slightly off, according to the group that crunched the numbers Gore used, the nonprofit Citizens for Tax Justice. The Diet Coke-a-day number actually applies to the bottom 60% of U.S. taxpayers. But many of those taxpayers don't pay any taxes at all, which skews the numbers in Gore's favor...
...real average family, the middle 20% of taxpayers making between $24,000 and $39,300, would do better than Gore suggested. They would be able to use Bush's tax cut to treat themselves to two cans of Diet Coke a day. Refreshing, perhaps, but not life changing...