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...House has sweetened Bush's plan even further, making the initial drop in the lowest bracket (from 15 percent to 12 percent) retroactive to Jan. 1, 2001. That bracket drops to 10 percent in 2006. The rest of the plan would gradually shrink the current five income tax rates of 15 percent, 28 percent, 31 percent, 36 percent and 39.6 percent to four - 10 percent, 15 percent, 25 percent and 33 percent...
...trend that worries mainstream classical performers. The star cellist Julian Lloyd Webber talks of a "vicious circle." Says he: "The way the record companies are working now is dangerous. When you go over and over the same Verdi and Puccini tunes, you shrink the repertoire and the industry constricts." In other words, by ignoring new classical music, by burying their budgets in the past, the record companies might be endangering their future...
...announces that her patients include "faces from the hit television shows 'Survivor,' 'Big Brother' and 'Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire?'" It's a relief to know that people from reality shows can have a soft landing back to real reality by appearing on a show with a reality shrink...
...Germany to Albania. It vowed to transform itself into a lighter fighting force. It is spending $4 billion for a fleet of light, wheeled armored vehicles to be carried to battle aboard moderate-size but plentiful C-130 cargo planes. To keep the Crusader relevant, the Army wants to shrink the two-vehicle system from its current 110 tons to a relatively svelte 80 tons. But each system will still require a gigantic C-5 or C-17 cargo plane to ferry it to war in a hurry--and each is in extremely short supply...
...venom contains a protein, contortrostatin, that retards the growth and metastasis of tumors. Markland's team has found that injections of contortrostatin not only prevent the spread of ovarian and breast tumors in mice but also shrink them as much as 75%. The group hopes to start clinical trials of contortrostatin in about two years...