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Both parents were devastated, but Elizabeth had the hardest time coping with her grief. She quit work, changed her surname to Edwards (she had kept her maiden name at marriage) and stayed home, finding numbness, if not comfort, in watching the Weather Channel with the sound off. Eventually, she and John plunged themselves into creating memorials to their son, including the Wade Edwards Learning Lab in Raleigh...
...wounds may continue to bleed. He has promoted Scarlett to head the Secret Intelligence Service, despite his role in adapting the dossier to the needs of p.r. Butler said he hoped Scarlett would not resign, but many are calling for him to do so. If he is forced to quit for the JIC's errors, by what logic can Blair remain? With WMD unlikely ever to be unearthed, Downing Street remains uneasy that Butler, the canny mandarin, has subtly set in motion forces that could, in ways now unforeseen, still prove lethal...
...taxes and wasteful spending. In Britain, where taxes and spending were slashed by Margaret Thatcher two decades ago, some are outraged at a 40% rise in central-government administration costs over the past five years - more than three times the inflation rate. In France, dozens of successful businesspeople have quit the country to avoid a steep wealth tax that Eric Pichet, a business-school professor in Bordeaux, estimates has resulted in €100 billion of assets leaving France - robbing twice as much revenue as the wealth tax generates. Among the advocates for change is Paul Kirchhof, a former judge...
...more than she was, "they told me it was a fluke." But as other male colleagues leapfrogged past, her salary never rose above $60,000 and she never landed the promised job of store manager. When she complained, "they told me where to go," says Adams, 57. She quit...
...link between smoking and lung cancer. Last week the journal published a 50-year update of the massive research project on which that paper was based--the longest smoking study ever--which calculated that cigarettes took an average of 10 years off the lives of smokers who never quit. The study, which began in 1951 and ended in 2001, followed 35,000 male doctors and found that kicking the habit reduced mortality rates on a sliding scale. Quit at 60, and you gain three years of life; quit at 30, and it's almost as if you never smoked. Take...