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...spend three times as much on drugs as the rest of the population. What's more, insurance coverage for prescription drugs is a big problem for many seniors. Medicare doesn't cover prescription drugs unless they are associated with a hospital stay. True, about two-thirds of the 39 million Medicare-covered seniors have some kind of prescription-drug insurance through either their former employer or one of the many so-called Medigap insurance plans. But these plans are often expensive and require high co-payments, so even those with some drug insurance coverage fret over their costs...
...generosity is its own reward, it's doubly gratifying to whittle down your taxable estate each year. The amount you can shelter from tax at death through the lifetime exclusion is rising, and will reach $2 million for a married couple ($1 million for an individual) in 2006, up from $1.3 million ($650,000 for an individual) in 1999. Sound tax planning can leave your estate at or just below those levels, minimizing the estate tax. Give $10,000 ($20,000 as a couple) to each heir. Such gifts can be made, tax-free, annually. If your estate...
...like a routine inspection, but on a much grander, million-man, scale. Every month, in an arcane and complicated ritual tracking thousands of troops, tanks and tarpaulins, Army bean counters rate the readiness of each of the service's 10 divisions. Troops, weapons, logistics and training are all measured, then reviewed by commanders and tweaked if the results might give a misleading impression of a division's fitness to fight. The grades range from C-1--fully ready to wage war--to C-4, unprepared for battle. The marks warn the Army of impending problems and help the generals know...
...earth. Says Jancis Robinson, editor of the newly revised Oxford Companion to Wine: "It is difficult to overestimate the Australian impact." Explains New York City wine expert Humphrey Oguda: "No one has done so much for wine so fast. The giants of Australia, like Penfolds, make more than 1 million bottles of wine a year, and they scare every French winemaker because the quality that goes into a $10 bottle of wine is exactly the same quality that goes into the top of their line. It's madness! It's why they are considered a war machine when it comes...
...Weissmans initially gave $5 million for the internship program. Paul Weissman served on the International Issues Planning Committee at that time, and says the group saw a need to provide non-academic international exposure to Harvard undergraduates...