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...FACTS Accounting firms report that day traders are getting into tax trouble because they don't know the law. Yes, the maximum capital gains rate is 20%. But it applies only to long-term holdings--at least a year. Otherwise, the gain is income and taxed up to 39.6%. The lesson: it may be worth sitting on a stock a little longer to qualify it as a long-term holding. Even if the stock falls, say, 25%; and you're in the top bracket, you'll probably break even because the lower tax rate will offset the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Apr. 10, 2000 | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...will reach its limits. The American historian Henry Adams observed almost a century ago that science accelerates through a positive-feedback effect. Knowledge begets more knowledge; power begets more power. This so-called acceleration principle has an intriguing corollary: If science has limits, then it might be moving at maximum speed just before it hits the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will There Be Anything Left To Discover? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...Surge Knight, convicted murderer of Tupac Shakur, has been in a maximum-security prison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: 15 Minutes | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

...Selecting a machine presents the first challenge of the MAC experience. The Stairmaster burns sufficient calories, but no one really wants a bike, let alone a seated cycler,and the rowing machines may as well evaporate. The treadmill represents the true prize, for it offers maximum sweat and maximum results in (MAXIMUM) thirty minutes...

Author: By K.l. Rakowski, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Survival of the Fittest | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

...example, a standard treatment schedule for a woman with breast cancer might be to blast the cancer cells with the maximum dose of chemotherapy drugs she can stand, then allow her to rest for three weeks while her body recuperates, Folkman said...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Researchers Use New Technique To Cure Cancer in Mice | 4/5/2000 | See Source »

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