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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...credits and deductions. High earners in high-tax states are most vulnerable, but anyone taking a large deduction for business expenses can fall victim. Tip: consult a pro. Avoiding the AMT may call for such radical action as accelerating income and deferring deductions, which is precisely the opposite of normal strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stealth Tax Hikes | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

Within three weeks, Stokes was feeling better and now, at 58, he is back at work on a normal, nitroglycerine-free routine. "I ride horses and I run tractors," he says. "You have to be in pretty good shape to do what I do." As it turned out, all 16 heart patients in Isner's trial showed improvement, and six are entirely free of pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fixing the Genes | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...initial goals of gene therapists were to cure relatively straightforward genetic disorders, such as Huntington's disease and sickle-cell anemia, that are caused by a single defective gene. The strategy was simple: substitute a normal gene for a faulty one. But scientists quickly realized that adding genes to cells could also impart new functions to those cells. That may lead to the genetic treatment of a host of other disorders, including heart disease and many forms of cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fixing the Genes | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

This means gene therapy cannot now be used to treat, for example, diabetics. If they were provided with a normal insulin gene that was always turned on, their insulin level would soon be dangerously high. "But the mechanism we have in mind," Wilson says, "will be like a genetic rheostat. The gene will not work until you take a pill, and the more pills you take, the more the gene will be expressed--and if you want to cut off the supply, you simply stop taking the pill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fixing the Genes | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...that you just completed, you know, a month after you completed it, you are going to look back and you say, 'good god, what the f--was I doing? I could have obviously done that a whole lot better, using this and this and this.' That's a perfectly normal reaction. I consider myself very much a rookie, and we'll see what next year kind of holds. As far as my being a veteran goes, damn this system, I'm never going to get an acting job in this country! (Laughter...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WAKA: A 'VETERAN ROOKIE' | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

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