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...latest year for which complete tax data are available, 34 million tax filers reported receiving dividends. But the benefits flow largely to upper-income people. Just 7.9 million individuals and families--those who filed returns with incomes of more than $100,000--reaped two-thirds of the total dividends of $147 billion. In short, 6% of 129.4 million tax filers would enjoy most of the benefits from ending the double tax on dividends...
...sediment cores from the bottom of three lakes that march up Taylor Valley like Cyclopean footprints: Fryxell, Hoare and Bonney. These cores are layered like the pages of a history book, and the record of geochemical shifts they contain can be used to reconstruct lake levels and stream flow for past centuries. Doran thinks that the record from Lake Fryxell may extend back 15,000 years...
...year--does not seem to have increased in recent decades. On the other hand, the streams have been extremely erratic--accelerating, decelerating, sometimes even stopping. And miles inland, the streams have shown surprising sensitivity to ocean tides, raising the specter that modest rises in sea level could accelerate their flow...
...deficit of more than 6% of its value, a shortfall for which BA currently sets aside an additional $40 million annually. For its part, BT must contribute an additional $330 million annually to cover its pension-fund deficit - which eats into profits. As a way to stem the flow, some U.K. employers have stopped offering plans that promise retirees a fixed benefit: in the private sector, 30% of such plans have closed to new entrants. (Newer schemes are much less certain, and place all the risk with the employee rather than the employer: what workers take out at retirement depends...
CLOTHING Lane Bryant has targeted full-figured women for more than a century, but its new owner, Charming Shoppes, a plus-size retailer, opened 60 outlets last year, for a total of 696. Today 70% of the parent firm's $2.5 billion in revenues flow from the purses of the rubenesque. "Our customer is the average woman," says Dorrit Bern, Charming Shoppes CEO, "not the minority...