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This new breed of romantic counseling--equal parts sex ed, social science and Dear Abby--is now being offered as formal courses at colleges and high schools across the country. Over two weekends, Pearson's students learn methods developed by researchers at the University of Denver and used for marital counseling in churches and in the military. They watch videos of fighting couples and discuss how conflicts can spiral out of control. They learn tidy formulas for success and failure in love: the three characteristics of successful couples (one is a man who can accept influence from a woman...
Eighteen states--including Oregon, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania--and the District of Columbia have separated, or "decoupled," their estate tax from the federal system. "Now those states will be imposing a tax equal to what the state death-tax credit used to be," says Lawrence Chane, an estate-planning attorney with Blank Rome in Philadelphia. "But because there won't be a credit against the federal tax, the overall tax burden for families in those states is going to increase substantially...
...being an assistant manga artist to drawing his own manga to directing occasional episodes of animated TV shows. One of these episodes caught Maruyama's eye. "I needed someone who had the flexibility to make an animated film in a live-action genre," he says. Kon proved more than equal to the task. "He brought out an incredible humanity that I didn't even know was there," says Maruyama. "Perfect Blue was the first animated film that could honestly be called a full-fledged movie." Critics agreed; Perfect Blue garnered a handful of international awards, including the prize for Best...
...Displaying equal nonchalance were Judeo's masters in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who suggested the tape was doctored and urged police to discover who entrapped the minister into taking a bribe. (The bribe payer, who claimed to represent an unnamed foreign mining company, has yet to be identified.) Instead of banishing Judeo, the BJP bigwigs said he would still lead the party's campaign for Dec. 1 polls in the state of Chhattisgarh in central India. Defending Judeo, BJP Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani took defiance to daring new levels, declaring he once campaigned while facing charges...
...scientists from the future announces that smoking does not cause cancer but cures it. I might even say that the Nick Tosches quote I cited last time about Las Vegas - that it is "a religion, a disease, a nightmare, a paradise for the misbegotten" - applies with equal acuity to smoking...