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...even his wall decorations betray his true love. Scrolled across the back of his room is a poster depicting a graph resembling the output from a seismograph. "It's the Riemann zeta function on the critical line," says Kedlaya. Apparently, solving a problem relating to the function is tantamount in prestige to proving Fermat's Last Theorem...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: Breaking the Curve | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...Senator Arlen Specter's postcard plan for income tax in America, his column ("Politics, Not Props," Sept. 25, 1995) reflects his failure to see through the gloss of Specter's Flat Tax Plan brochure (yes, it was glossy, too, just like all the others) and analyze Specter's spiffy graph and crafty doublespeak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Specter Misleads On Flat Tax | 9/30/1995 | See Source »

Although the bar graph convincingly shows the one admirable part of the flat tax plan--the fact that fixed personal and family deductions of $16,500 for married couples effectively eliminate income tax for those with family incomes of around $30,000 or under--one only need look to the right end of the graph to see why the flat tax is one of the most regressive measures proposed in recent memory. Families with income levels of $1 million and more would be paying only around 61 percent of what they paid before the measure, which means that the huge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Specter Misleads On Flat Tax | 9/30/1995 | See Source »

Specter's graph is cunningly misleading for the reasons we learned in elementary school: The same size bars represent grossly different amounts of money. The bar representing any five percent granted by the government to the $25,000 income bracket represents $1,250; the same size bar on the other end of the graph--that 5 percent granted to the $1 million income bracket--represents a whopping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Specter Misleads On Flat Tax | 9/30/1995 | See Source »

...Look," says one of the resource-management planners, jabbing his finger at a graph. "Lake Superior isn't much of a tourist attraction. Who wants to come and look at 31,820 sq. mi. of water? Nobody. The water's too cold for swimming, and frankly, lakes don't draw like canyons do. Ask Lake Mead. Lakes only draw fishermen, a bunch of owly guys who drive in, buy a six-pack of beer and a bologna sandwich. Canyons draw families. And the Superior Canyon, without a doubt, will outdraw the Grand. It's bigger, for one thing, plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINNESOTA'S SENSIBLE PLAN | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

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