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...plans to spare their heirs what wealth advisers call "affluenza," an affliction that was fleetingly pandemic during the dotcom daze. Wealth doctors have lost a few patients since then. But even as stocks have slumped, home prices have swelled. Household net worth is down only slightly from its 1999 peak. Meanwhile, tax changes this year raise the limit on annual tax-free gifts to $11,000 a person (for as many people as you want to enrich), up from $10,000. You can leave $1 million free from estate tax, up from $675,000. The top marginal estate-tax rate...
...Upward Ho! Lining Up for Everest Last june, erik weihenmayer, right, became the first blind climber to reach Mount Everest's icy 8,850-m peak, and on his way he carved a hint of approachability in the mountain's otherwise treacherous face. Now there's a veritable buffet line of hopeful summiteers, from amputees to an all-women team to the descendants of the first climbers to reach the peak. It's no easy trek: though a record 182 people made it to the top last year, 90% of Everest climbers fail. By SORA SONG...
...descendants of the pair first to summit Everest, in 1953, hope to do the same next month. Hillary and Tenzing?both have reached the top before?will climb separately and meet at the peak...
...gallery’s floor rests buildings constructed of white clay and covered in salt; their stupa-like shapes suggest mosques and holy buildings that reach towards the sky. In the center is the crown jewel of the structures, a four-stepped platform with a cone-shaped peak rising from...
That decade saw the peak of Graham’s visibility as a neighborhood activist. Despite all the years she represented their neighborhood in City Hall and on Beacon Hill, what residents are quickest to say about Graham is that she once took over a Harvard Commencement...