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This is the traditional Republican supply-side aspect of Dubya-nomics: you help the poor by helping the rich. In particular, Bush justifies cuts in top-bracket tax rates by noting that they will benefit the small-business owner. That they will. But a lot of top-bracket taxpayers are not small-business owners. So even under the dubious premise that small-business owners are delicate flowers that must be fertilized with extra-rich tax goodies, a general tax cut for the rich is a weird way to go about...
...Owner John Constance, a two-term Sackets Harbor mayor and former-Marine, has a son-in-law, Major Pat Frank, with the 101st Airborne Division. Frank?s tent was one of the ones that was hit in March by grenades tossed by a fellow serviceman at Camp Pennsylvania, in Kuwait. Pat was returning from the showers when it happened. ?Its been such a strain on my poor daughter [Jennifer],? says Constance. ?It?s unfortunate he?s missing all this fun in our family, but the good thing is it?s keeping my daughter?s mind occupied...
...elegance and elfin wit, have made Pixar's first four features--Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc.--the gold standard in computer-generated imagination. Gold, as in $1.73 billion worldwide gross for that quartet, plus truckfuls more in video and DVD profits. Pixar owner Steve Jobs will need a battleship to hold all the money his current distribution partner, Disney, will need to fork over to renew their contract, which expires in 2005. The two studios now split the profits from Pixar movies, but since Pixar's CGI movies have been grossing nearly twice...
...trendiest pets to own in Thailand has been the Madagascar Giant Hissing Cockroach, an imported species that can grow to centimeters in length and sells in pet shops for $1.20. "They're clean, they're cute and I love the sound they make," explains a proud local pest owner. Besides hissing, they also sizzle. Last week, Bangkok health authorities seized more than 200 of the roaches from pet shops, doused them with DDT and chucked them into a waste incinerator. Madagascar cockroaches were banned in Thailand last year, deemed a threat to national biosecurity. "They are an alien species that...
...SARS agent. The scientists sequenced its genome and found the two viruses to be nearly identical. The World Health Organization points out that the results don't definitively prove that civets or other animals gave humans SARS. But theoretically, a civet bite or sneeze could infect its owner?so could the handling of a butchered carcass. (The virus is unlikely to survive cooking, so it probably wasn't contracted by a diner in a restaurant...