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...perks of being in an exciting city cease to exist when you discover that all of your waking hours are spent at work. One of my mentors at the firm, a third-year analyst, told me not to stress about the exorbitant Manhattan rents. "Just get a studio large enough for your bed," he said rather gravely. "You won't do anything else in your room...
...jointly for the estate tax is $1.35 million. In 2006, that will rise to $2 million. That means that only family businesses worth more than $2 million will be affected at all by the estate tax, assuming that the current law remains unchanged. In addition, special tax breaks already exist for family farmers and small businesses...
...dirt about their private lives." The answer is "Good luck finding any." Meaning not just any dirt but any private lives. One more thing Ralph and Pat have in common is that both are consummate public men, dedicated to causes. Their inner (or even private social) lives, if they exist, are buried deep. In all the years of professional proximity, I've had exactly one purely social meal with each of them. (Not together, needless to say.) That's too bad, because despite Ralph's austere image and Pat's snarly one, they're both strangely good company and great...
...growing interest in DEET-free alternatives, Biorganic Safety Brands has developed a line of ShooBug Repellents that it claims are safe for use around kids and pets. Using extracts of tree and plant oils--most notably cloves--the new products block a neurotransmitter receptor in bugs that doesn't exist in humans...
...Adams' novels be stretched? Babel Fish--a device he describes that can be inserted into the ear to give the listener instant translation of all languages--doesn't exist. But h2g2 has licensed the Babel Fish name to a service run by search engine Alta Vista, which offers computer-based automatic translations of text in seven languages. There are plans to use that service to provide multiple-language versions of h2g2 within the next year...