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...liable for payment of sales taxes on all purchases, including items bought from out-of-state catalogues, but mail-order companies are required to collect sales taxes only in states where they have a physical presence--a warehouse, distribution center or store, for example. Consequently state and local governments lose up to $4 billion annually in sales taxes, according to the National Governors' Association...

Author: By Marguerite HOXIE Sullivan, | Title: Why We Must Tax in Cyberspace | 12/16/1998 | See Source »

...when heroes would rise to the occasion, because it's such a unique moment in our history," says Leon Panetta, the former Clinton chief of staff who has been lobbying Democrats and Republicans to pass a bipartisan censure resolution. "That just has not happened, and I'm beginning to lose hope that it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Push To Impeach | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

MAIL THAT AGAIN? Netizens, it seems, are no less gullible than the rest of us. This week the Justice Department was forced to debunk a widely circulated e-mail suggesting African Americans would lose the right to vote in 2007. A brief study of rumor and effect in cyberspace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 14, 1998 | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...DATE] July 1998 [RUMOR] Couple will lose virginity live online [EFFECT] Millions logged on for a letdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 14, 1998 | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...Fugitive Guy was so empathetic because he was an underdog: darkening his uniform with a pen, scaling two 10-ft., razor-studded fences, ducking a barrage of bullets, scampering through a marshy forest and evading more than 500 officers. Martin Gurule was a maverick with nothing left to lose up against a giant bureaucracy and some pretty cocky-sounding Texas prison officers, who were fooled by pillows he bunched together to make it look like him sleeping. Gurule was fighting the Man. He was messing with Texas. Are you getting this, Mr. Bruckheimer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rooting for the Death-Row Fugitive Guy | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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