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...magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder There can be few hotels that actively avoid 100% occupancy, but Helga's Folly, overlooking the Sri Lankan city of Kandy, is one of them. "I do not like it full," says owner Helga da Silva Blow Perera, "as it spoils the atmosphere." For this reason, the hotel takes pains to never rent out all 40 rooms at once. Such whimsical attitudes...
...would anyone want to rent a cow? Say "cheese"-several varieties produced from your protégé's milk will, by summer's end, be yours. Last year the cows' owners, farmers Paul and Helga Wyler, decided to beef up their income by renting out the bovines. This year they are leasing their 100 cows. You select a cow (pictures can be seen at www.kuhleasing.ch), and pay the leasing fee of $300 as well as the additional $13 per kg of cheese your cow will produce during the summer, amounting to about 70-120 kg. In the fall...
...principle, Helga Moser doesn't have anything against paying taxes. Like all Germans, the 49-year-old Bonn medical technician has long enjoyed a generous cradle-to-grave welfare system, including a free education and good health care, clean streets, cheap public transport and the reassuring knowledge that she'll get a guaranteed pension when she retires...
...former judge at Germany's Federal Constitutional Court, who has sparked a national debate in Germany with his call for a massive simplification of the current system that would cut the top rate to just 25% from 45% and eliminate hundreds of exemptions. If implemented, his scheme would leave Helga Moser with far more disposable income. But Kirchhof's goals are broader. "If we change the tax system, we'll strike a liberating blow for the economy," he tells TIME. In France, dozens of small taxpayer groups have sprung up around the country to contest the way local officials spend...
...mayor for taking out ads in the local paper last year that urged President Jacques Chirac to veto a U.N. resolution on war with Iraq. "That's not the job of a mayor," Levy says. "In the future, they'll have to be more careful." Back in Bonn, Helga Moser doesn't take part in any taxpayers' groups or file suits against local authorities - but that doesn't mean she's indifferent when she sees her tax money going down the drain. She's still cross about a TV program she watched the other day showing how money is being...