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...forget the kids. Chances are they are outdoors more than you. Whatever you do, don't toss your sunglasses once summer is over. Ultraviolet radiation doesn't disappear on cloudy days or in winter. Preserving your vision is a year-round...
...Taiwan's largest organized crime gangs. But a walk down the Taipei street where the ramshackle offices of most of the city's funeral companies are located reveals a world that is at least murky, if not outright illicit. At the sight of a journalist, most of the morticians disappear through back doors or behave as if they are mute. One, Lo Shuan-lin of the Lucky Flower Village Funeral Co., complains his police informants are charging too much. "The cops want $600 for a corpse," he says, adding that the high prices are eating away at the funeral companies...
...France, you've got to be totally sensitive to local culture and integrated into the community," concedes its representive in France, David Pearson. And Aniane's voters may have let the future slip through their fingers. "Fifty percent of the growers who sell to the coop are going to disappear," says Laurent Vaillé, owner of La Grange des Pères. "Mondavi was their last chance, the only thing that was going to help the coop stay alive. Mondavi would have shone a spotlight on Languedoc throughout the Anglo-Saxon world. There's no one else in the region...
...havoc with estate planning. Starting next year, when the estate-tax exemption rises to $1 million per person (instead of the current $675,000), rates will decline and taxpayers will be able to leave more to their heirs on a tax-free basis. But the estate tax doesn't disappear entirely until 2010--and a year later, unless Congress acts, the tax is restored to what it is today. This is absurdity of the highest order, making dying in 2010 so attractive for the rich--and dying in 2011 so unappealing--that wags say some millionaires will pull their...
...other cases it was neutral—like the disorganized lab partner that Neff remembers from high school, the Summers of today requires a rule that says you are “never to give Larry the only version of anything” lest it “disappear into the pile...