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...weight-loss efforts, however, show long-term success. So a new business is building for mainstream firms that aim to make a profit by accommodating XXXL Americans and making their lives easier rather than trying to change them. "I'm not handicapped by my body," asserts Elizabeth Fisher, 42, a 350-lb. computer programmer in Baton Rouge, La., who made headlines when she tried (and failed) to force Honda to provide her with seat-belt extenders for her new Odyssey. "I'm handicapped by stuff that's too small." That situation is beginning to change as more companies modify their...
...TECH STOCKS Winners. Even if they never get religion on traditional dividends, cash cows Oracle, Dell, Microsoft and Cisco could issue "deemed" dividends that reflect profit that might have been paid as cash but was instead retained by the company for future investment. For tax purposes, the value of undistributed profit would be added to the price you paid for the stock and leave you with a smaller taxable gain when you sell...
AGGRESSIVE-GROWTH STOCKS Losers. Young companies that don't make a profit can't use the deemed dividend or pay a tax-free dividend. Dump them...
...Author Wang Shuo has mixed feelings about the Chinese publishers he has worked with. "They're all profit-seeking. They use me and I use them. Most of the time, they care only about making big money. They have a huge first print run of my book. Afterwards, they don't bother printing 10,000 copies per year because it's small money. That's why you can hardly buy my previous books...
...Because publishing is considered part of the state's ideological apparatus, each year the government allocates a certain number of ISBNs to state-owned publishing houses. One way for publishers to generate profit is by selling ISBNs to the private sector. An ISBN can be sold for $2,000 to $4,000. Although this is illegal, according to China's General Administration of Press and Publication, it is common practice among Chinese enterprises...