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...discovered that local taxes in the city have been rising at three times the inflation rate. Last year his group won a landmark court case against the city and Rhône regional authorities, which forced officials in both bureaucracies to work longer hours. "They're not spending because of need, but because they have the tax revenue," fumes Vergnaud. The pressure on governments to revamp their tax policies isn't just coming from activists. In a key ruling last September in a case involving Dutch automotive supplier Bosal, the European Court of Justice argued that national tax rules must...
...Cosmos With its concise and easy-to-understand explanations of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, this site is geared towards both science-loving kids as well as those interested in this landmark in space exploration...
...British Medical Journal published a landmark study in 1954 that helped establish the link between smoking and lung cancer. Last week the journal published a 50-year update of the massive research project on which that paper was based--the longest smoking study ever--which calculated that cigarettes took an average of 10 years off the lives of smokers who never quit. The study, which began in 1951 and ended in 2001, followed 35,000 male doctors and found that kicking the habit reduced mortality rates on a sliding scale. Quit at 60, and you gain three years of life...
...YORK A local landmark, the 120-year-old P.J. Clarke's tavern is renowned as much for its onetime clientele (Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor were regulars) as for its men's room, which features two-meter-high period porcelain urinals. These are famous for having ice at the bottom. Co-owner Philip Scotti explains that before air-conditioning and ventilation systems were invented, ice helped keep odors under control...
...March 1983, Reagan gave a landmark speech calling on the U.S. to build a shield that would render Moscow's nuclear missiles "impotent and obsolete." Whether or not the U.S. could build such a Star Wars shield was less important than the Soviets' knowledge that they themselves never could. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) quickly became an obsession of the Soviet leadership. Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev tried to derail it through propaganda and arms control. But Reagan steadfastly refused to give...