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...generosity is its own reward, it's doubly gratifying to whittle down your taxable estate each year. The amount you can shelter from tax at death through the lifetime exclusion is rising, and will reach $2 million for a married couple ($1 million for an individual) in 2006, up from $1.3 million ($650,000 for an individual) in 1999. Sound tax planning can leave your estate at or just below those levels, minimizing the estate tax. Give $10,000 ($20,000 as a couple) to each heir. Such gifts can be made, tax-free, annually. If your estate...
...segment, set in the drenching rain, a character offers up her shirt to shelter the group's campfire. But just when it seems like there will be some gratuitous seminudity, the scene devolves into a gruesome amputation ending in death. Plus, she gets her shirt back by the following scene. And when these women enter the Amazon, they get wet only up to the waist. It's like a whole show of nothing but lifeguard rescues. "One of the challenges we face is to keep the historical and anthropological interest alive while also having beautiful women in jeopardy," explains Benchley...
...overfishing are rapidly destroying our rivers, lakes and oceans. As these ecosystems go down, we are losing perhaps 30,000 species of animals and plants a year, out of perhaps 10 million total species, even though we still deeply rely on at least 40,000 species for food, shelter, clothing and fuel. We rely on natural products to replenish genetic diversity in our crops and to produce new medicines. We rely on pristine ecosystems to replenish oxygen, regulate water cycles, control erosion, cycle essential nutrients and restock critical fisheries. We still need these things to sustain life--our life...
Chittick hopes to soon employ a work-study graduate student at the shelter to act as a facilitator to help the undergraduate volunteers process their experiences and point them toward courses at the University dealing with issues of homelessness, poverty and social justice...
Alina Das '01, student director at the shelter, looks forward to the shelter's reopening in two weeks...