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...vastly different prices attached to each. You can pay top dollar one day and several hundred dollars less the next for the same vacation. No group of travelers is better positioned to take advantage of off-season bargains than those of us, like Palmer and Mary, who are no longer tied down by children or 9-to-5 jobs. Bargains aren't the only rewards of off-season travel. There are fewer crowds and shorter lines, as well as learning opportunities and activity programs offered by hotels and cruise lines looking to fill rooms when demand...
...self-educated, and he reads all the time when he's not drinking or down the shaft. His literary range is wider than that of most educated Americans I've met, and he talks beautifully. His father was a Stalinist union organizer, and though John is no longer a communist--few miners are; they're too solitary and anarchic by temperament--he movingly speaks of the kinship he and his mates feel with the labor traditions of Australian mining, which go back to the Eureka rebellion of the Victorian gold miners in 1854. "We have solidarity because we know...
...Americans no longer have confidence in a government ruled by special interests," he said Sunday. McCain is a co-sponsor of senate legislation that would outlaw so-called soft money contributions and impose other restrictions on political fundraising...
There's no longer any doubt that women are in the workplace for good. In fact, increasingly they own it. Over the past 12 years, the number of female-owned U.S. firms has doubled; workers employed by such firms have quadrupled; and sales have quintupled. According to the National Foundation for Women Business Owners, there are now 9.1 million women-owned companies, making up 38% of all U.S. businesses, with a work force of 27.5 million and annual sales of $3.6 trillion. Among the fields in which female ownership is growing fastest: construction, wholesale trade, transportation and communications, agriculture...
SMOKING BREAK The IRS apparently figures that people who live longer pay taxes longer. That might explain why the agency will now allow smokers to deduct the unreimbursed cost of antismoking programs or prescription drugs as a medical expense on their returns--as long as total medical costs exceed 7.5% of gross income. (Nicotine patches and gum don't count.) To make a claim from previous years, file a 1040X amended return...