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...given year only a few hundred Americans have to pay a levy called the "generation-skipping tax," which is 55% on transfers of more than $1 million from a grandparent to a grandchild. But Dole once helped shrink even that paltry number at the urging of two of his biggest cash donors, Ernest and Julio Gallo. According to the Center for Public Integrity, the Gallos, who own the biggest wine-making company in the country, are Dole's largest financial backers, having given more than $1 million over the years. But that is a modest investment compared with...
...generation of anticancer agents, however, promises to be much more selective. By targeting oncogenes, for example, researchers hope to switch off the signals that prompt cancer cells to divide in the first place. Particularly promising is a class of drugs known as farnesyltransferase inhibitors, which have been shown to shrink tumors while sparing normal tissues. "Oncology is not a profession that inspires optimism," admits Dr. Allen Oliff, director of cancer research at Merck & Co. "But these days I'm almost Pollyannaish about finding safer, more effective cancer therapies...
...Fresno on Bill Clinton's 28th trip to California as President, and he is jogging. Bleary reporters gaze as Clinton and his Secret Service detail shrink to dots, then gradually return from the far side of the Leaky Acres Groundwater Recharge Facility, where the President and his entourage can run undisturbed. Their path will take Clinton past a growing gaggle of children and teachers at the Viking Elementary School. They are shouting for the President to come by. But the jogging path and the schoolyard are separated by a chasm of tight security: two cyclone fences, a four-lane highway...
...psychiatrist treats a young neurotic named Gene Kenny. After much painstaking analysis, Dr. Rafael Neruda sees what he believes to be a triumph of his therapeutic skills: Gene is no longer a passive wimp but rather a rising computer whiz with a wife, a son and--somewhat to the shrink's discomfort--a beautiful mistress. After their last session, Neruda notes, "I have to admit a surge of vanity: I was proud of what I had wrought." A bit later he hears from his former patient, "You cured me. I'm not a neurotic anymore. It's just that...
...half-size, 67-ft. prototype of the VentureStar called the X-33 is scheduled to fly in 1999, the finished craft in 2006. NASA and Lockheed claim that the innovations will shrink the shuttle's price-per-payload-pound from $10,000 to $1,000, slash repair and inspection costs and reduce turnaround time from weeks to days. Goldin envisions fleets of VentureStars launching satellites, hauling material back and forth to space stations and ferrying tourists into orbit. "Many people have aspirations of going into space," he says. "They should be able to live those...