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...certain that the bais are elephant strongholds. According to maps drawn from aerial reconnaissance, we have to cross at least 15 km of dry land before reaching the next watershed. Unless we find a stream by dusk, we face a waterless night after a full day's hike. Ndokanda sets an uncharacteristically slow pace, so Fay decides to shame him by taking the lead. As we set off ahead, he remarks, "The one thing Pygmies can't stand is for a white guy to lead in the forest...
...foreign investment tax is part of a larger revenue-swelling program involving a 10 percent marginal tax hike on the wealthy and some cost-cutting--all in the hopes of slicing the budget deficit in half during his first term. Much of the plan is exactly what America needs: to move away from the borrow-and-spend Reagan-Bush years; to rebuild crumbling roads, bridges and other elements of the infrastructure; to provide tax credits for new investment, small businesses and research and development...
Another ice cream gem is Toscanini's. Locatedin Central Square, it's a bit of a hike--but thewalk is a great way to burn off some ice creamcalories. And sometimes a little leg work isnecessary to find the only ice cream parlor gutsyenough to blast the Pet Shop Boys over itsspeakers...
...high as 18, but then the company was jolted by a succession of negative developments. A ruling by the Office of Thrift Supervision forced Southwest to set aside $17 million to cover bad loans in its savings-bank division. And the company's request for a $43 million rate hike was put off by the Arizona public-service commission. Southwest's stock hit the skids, sliding as low as 8 by August. It just goes to show that, even for insiders, playing the market is not a science...
...prevent Congress from giving itself a midterm pay raise, a requisite 38 states have agreed that there is "a seeming indecorum," as Madison contended, in the power to increase one's own salary. Last week four states, prompted by public outrage over the Senate's 1991 midnight pay hike and other Capitol Hill scandals, ratified the amendment, which Madison had sought as part of what became the original Bill of Rights. While the provision does not bar pay raises outright, it would delay their execution until after the next congressional election, thus making lawmakers more accountable to voters...