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...think being around costumes so much has ruined Halloween for me,” says Christine I. Moore, saleswoman at Harvard Square costume shop Hootenanny, minutes after ringing up a pair of black spandex hot pants and bag of feathers purchased by a customer. ‘They’ll cover you. I mean, I think it’ll be enough?...

Author: By KATHERINE M. AGARD, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Halloween Shopping, Uncovered | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...little further up the square, at Oona’s Costume Shop, the atmosphere is decidedly more sedate. Molly Dixon sells a grey elephant hat to a couple, saying a turtleneck is all you need to “complete the look...

Author: By KATHERINE M. AGARD, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Halloween Shopping, Uncovered | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...receive corporate health-care benefits - benefits that aren't taxed. The money would be better, and more fairly, spent giving people tax credits to pay for health care, according to their income. This would have the additional benefit of controlling insurance costs, since people are more likely to shop for the best deal if they're spending their own money rather than their employer's. The idea is a nonstarter, however, because organized labor has negotiated excellent health benefits for its members over the years and doesn't want to see them curbed. The unions are opposed to the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Care: Do the Right Thing on Taxes | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

Lobsang Gyaltsen was sentenced to death for setting fire to two garment shops in downtown Lhasa on March 14 last year, killing a shop owner, according to a spokesman for the Lhasa Municipal Intermediate People's Court, cited by the official Xinhua News Agency in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2 Tibetans Executed in China Over 2008 Riots | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...with workers for a lot of plans is spend more, get less," says Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, a member of the Senate Finance Committee who has pushed, so far unsuccessfully, for the reform bills in Congress to give employees and employers more choices by allowing them to shop for coverage in the insurance marketplaces that would be established under reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Employer-Based Insurance: Paying More, Getting Less | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

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