Word: junked
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Stories like these and other inequities are at the root of the newfound momentum in Washington to junk the estate tax, which currently reaches rates as high as 55%. The House passed a repeal bill in June, and with few changes, the Senate signed off on it last month. President Clinton has vowed to veto the bill, which he calls a tax break for the superrich, and there does not appear to be enough support for an override. Still, the issue promises to have legs...
...musical acts are concerned about how they'll make money in the Age of the Download. But there's another question that merits attention--one of particular importance to consumers. With hundreds of thousands of songs floating around the Net, how does the ordinary fan sort out all the junk in order to get to the good stuff...
...There's no correct answer, of course. Killing people is a morally messy business. Whether we allow a man carte blanche with junk food menus and then have a medic administer a lethal injection, or we simply serve him that day's fried chicken and then shoot him in the head, the act is, in essence, the same. The difference, in the end, may have less to do with the condemned man's perception than it does with the way his executioners - and the society that orders them to kill its capital convicts - experience his death...
...funny essays on junk cinema, Michael J. Nelson, star of dear old Mystery Science Theater 3000, pokes at dead things with a nice Midwestern disdain. Among his targets: Patch Adams (about a doctor whose mission is to "put on a clown nose and frighten children") and actor Jason Lee ("He sucks out loud. He sucks on toast. He forces me to use the word sucks"). In the land of suckitude, Mike Nelson is king...
...said that students may also overestimate how much mail they should be receiving, making the forwarding service appear slower than it actually is. Junk mail is not forwarded to summer addresses, which greatly reducing the amount of mail a student is sent...