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...types of rental property; and a fourth, of 28%, for such collectibles as rare coins. The G.O.P. also wants capital gains to be indexed for inflation--that is, the taxable gain would be reduced by the amount that prices had risen over the life of the investment. Treasury officials contend they would be forced to erect a whole new bureaucratic apparatus of agents, forms and experts to police the change. The changes could tempt investors to divert money into unproductive investments that nonetheless yield lightly taxed capital gains, like the half-empty office buildings that sprouted before the 1986 reform...
Anthropologists have long known that modern man and the brawny, heavier-browed creatures known as Neanderthals coexisted on the planet for tens of thousands of years. What they don't know is how the two species got along. Did they interbreed, as some scientists contend, producing among their descendants the people who now populate Europe? Or did they compete for food and shelter, with Neanderthals eventually losing the struggle and disappearing for good 30,000 years...
...move to slash children's disability is in part budget driven: the government estimates that the new eligibility rules could save $4.7 billion over six years. But the program's critics contend it has been abused by families whose children are not truly disabled. "The standards are vague and easily met," says Representative Jim McCrery, a Louisiana Republican and supporter of the new rules. "Some people regard it as just a super welfare program." The assault on children's SSI began three years ago, when a spate of news reports carried charges that parents were coaching children...
...Mount Olive, a white parishioner would not let a group from the black congregation in to practice a Kwanza ceremony. But Mount Olive has since started a race-relations workshop involving both the white Lutheran and black Baptist congregations--a sign, most St. Louisans involved in church planting contend, that this kind of roof sharing can be a force for racial cooperation. "The first black baptized here I baptized six or seven years ago, and some of the people literally went into shock," says Paul Powell, retired pastor of Kingshighway Baptist Church. "It took some doing, but these old southside...
...years. Under the Republican-proposed measure, Congress would tighten its tax belt by offering American families a $500 per child tax credit, across-the-board reductions in capital gains and estate taxes and a $10,000 deduction for education expenses paid through special investment accounts. House Democrats contend the bill is a classic Republican sell-out to the rich, while falling $4 billion short of the education-related tax breaks promised to the White House in the balanced budget deal. Democratic lawmakers, however, take a somewhat rosier view of the Republican tax agenda in the Senate, due for a vote...