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...case can be made for targeted tax cuts to encourage socially beneficial behavior like research into alternative cars and fuels. A case can also be made-though Bush would rather see Brokeback Mountain than make it-for targeted tax increases to discourage things like, well, an addiction to oil. But what are we to make of the perennial conservative call for the elimination of the estate tax, which would cost $750 billion over 10 years? Republicans have done a clever bit of marketing here by calling it the death tax. Perhaps Democrats should nickname estate-tax repeal the Paris Hilton...
...grow up downstream. American Richard Bangs, an international river explorer and award-winning author of Riding the Dragon's Back, about his first descent on China's Yangtze River, has led first river-boarding descents on 35 rivers worldwide. Bangs says that the rivers that cascade down such mountain ranges as the upward-thrusting Himalayas and Andes run rapidly continuously, leaving no room for human error. But the Zambezi gives boarders a chance to rest, "in that it has a beautifully designed sequence: a big rapid is almost always followed by a calm pool." Marc Goddard, former world rafting champion...
Certainly the decision caused some hair tearing at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. "It's never obvious what to do in these situations," Google co-founder Larry Page told TIME. "One of the principles we believe pretty strongly is that having really good access to information for people is a great way of improving the world." But in the end Google chose to dance with the dragon--presumably the cha-cha. "Filtering our search results clearly compromises our mission," the company's official statement says. "Failing to offer Google search at all to a fifth of the world...
...Brokeback Mountain is still the favorite for the top awards. At least Haggis thinks so: "We all know that George [Clooney] and Bennett [Miller] and I and Steven [Spielberg] are going to be in the audience applauding Ang. But one always hopes we'll be up there for something." Maybe. So don't count Crash out. The little movie that could may have one last surprise in store...
...Alps just 80 km away, this 10th century Benedictine abbey offers a sweeping panorama of the winterland known as the Milky Way, where some 2,500 athletes will vie for gold. Look westward from the Sacra's cobblestone terrace and pick out the 3,800-m snow-capped mountains girding the resort town of Sestriere, site of the Alpine skiing events. Turn a bit farther north to take in Pragelato, where the ski jumpers and cross-country skiers will compete. And then swivel east to see the piazzas and spires of Baroque Torino, where five 21st century rinks and arenas...