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...look at the fine print. Perhaps the most dreaded new paperwork is Form 8598, a two-page work sheet that must be filed by some of the taxpayers who have taken out home-equity loans or refinanced their dwellings since August 1986. To determine their taxes, those homeowners must explain how they spent the proceeds, what the home originally cost, exactly how much was spent on improvements, and a host of other figures. Most contributions to individual retirement accounts have been eliminated as a deduction, but those who have put money in nondeductible IRAs must now tangle with the thorny...
Striking new research, published last week in the quarterly journal AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, may help explain why some AIDS carriers can go on having unprotected sex for years without passing the virus to a regular partner. Although it is known that enough of the virus appears in the bloodstream shortly after infection to spread the disease via blood transfusions, sexual transmission is a different matter. The new study, of 24 hemophiliac AIDS carriers, shows that despite repeated sexual contact without condoms, the wives or steady female partners of these men generally remained free of the virus for several...
...still an instigator. If I fall in love with a show called Gilligan's Island, I'll turn the Tanners' backyard into a lagoon. If I don't like the President's policy on nuclear arms, I'll phone him on Air Force One and explain how we incinerated Melmac. Still the same old me: no moral compass, no sense of proportion, no fear. I still break things a lot too. I learned the hard way that you can't smoke fish in a toaster, puree a rock in a blender or light an oven an hour after you turn...
Costa refused to comment yesterday, and neither Betance nor Olson could be reached. HUPD officials would not explain the nature of the details of the incident...
Generally, however, prices seem to be trending higher. Paramount released Beverly Hills Cop on cassette in 1985 at $29.95. But when Beverly Hills Cop II arrives in the stores this month, it will sell for $89.95. Paramount executives explain that they are simply being selective about which films they target as probable big sellers, and thus candidates for bargain prices. Says Bob Klingensmith, president of Paramount's video division: "You don't have a Top Gun every month...