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...many of us in medicine smoke cigarettes any more. Few who live in the fancy zipcodes do either. Cigarettes, to an extent, have become an indicator of lower socioeconomic status. This week public hospitals were handing out free nicotine patches as the federal cigarette tax more than doubled, to $1.01, which means that in places like New York City a pack costs more than $9, sometimes more than $10. Like the lottery, this is exactly what Democrats should hate - a tax on the poor. (Do Dems stay silent on cigarettes because the government needs the money?) Certainly, in this economic...
...Detroiters are optimistic that it's the beginning of a turnaround. "We think this will have a long-lasting effect for the city's economy," says Renee Monforton, communications director for the Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau. "The people who visit here will want to come back again, either as leisure tourists or for a meeting. And people watching on television will see Detroit as a viable place to live, work and visit...
...test this hypothesis, the authors added an extra layer to the experiment. After the students either touched or didn't touch the Slinky and the coffee mug, they were asked to imagine picking up the products and bringing them home. The other half were asked to simply evaluate the products in their minds. Among those who touched the products, imagining ownership did not affect the price they'd be willing to pay for them. However, among those who didn't touch the items - a group that shares the same hands-free experience as online shoppers - picturing ownership led to significantly...
Many on Capitol Hill insist that scrutiny has not gotten significantly tighter. "The Finance Committee is not doing anything different now from what it has always done under the leadership of either [Chairman Max] Baucus or me," ranking Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa said recently. "We are vetting nominees for the current Administration the same way we vetted nominees for the previous Administration." Finance Committee staffers note, for instance, that Paul O'Neill, who was George W. Bush's first Treasury Secretary, had to pay $92 in back taxes when the Finance Committee noticed that he hadn't reported gifts...
...First Russian leader in decades with no known links to either the former Soviet Communist Party or its secret services. He is also the country's youngest head of state since Nicholas II became czar...