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That is still only a small fraction of what a traditional burial costs a family. (According to the most recent statistics from the National Funeral Directors Association, a regular adult funeral with burial, not including cemetery, monument or marker costs, averages $7,323.) Even so, the costs can quickly add up for a place like Wayne County. "Per capita, we're probably the fifth busiest medical examiner's office in the country," says Samuels. "We handle 13,000 death calls a year, and almost 3,600 bodies come through this system a year. So you're talking about 10 bodies...
...conference on constitutional reform - the more what the Prime Minister calls an "irreversible path of transition" begins to feel agonizingly never ending. On a recent tour of the U.S. and Europe, the Prime Minister picked up what the MDC says is $500 million in aid promises, a small fraction of the amount his Finance Minister, Tendai Biti, says Tsvangirai needs to revive the country. The money was a message, says a Western diplomat in Harare, that the world wants more speed...
...their budgets. Of the seven state-park systems that are not tethered to general funds, Oregon finances its parks with money from the state lottery. Maryland uses a 0.5% tax on all real estate transactions to fund its parks. Similar initiatives exist in Missouri, which dedicates a small fraction of the sales tax to parks, and Texas, which applies an extra tax to sporting goods and recreational equipment...
...childhood memories. "I grew up with Barbie," says Nancy Parsons, 50, president of the Western Pennsylvania Doll Club. "That was my toy. We lived out in the country. My brothers had their G.I. Joes, and I had my Barbie." Parsons put 500 of her dolls on display, only a fraction of her entire fleet. Though every doll is beloved in her collection, over the years, she says, she did sell a few for extra cash, which helped put her sons through college...
...supporters of legalization may have been handed their most convincing factor yet: the bummer economy. Advocates say that if state or local governments could collect a tax on even a fraction of pot sales, it would help rescue cash-strapped communities. Not surprisingly, the idea is getting traction in California, home to the nation's largest supply of domestically grown marijuana (worth an estimated $14 billion a year) and biggest state budget deficit (more than $26 billion...