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These taxpayers, who earn a total of $66,000, not only use their personal exemptions but also itemize deductions to shrink their taxable income. The result is the same under both the House and Senate bills. Their federal income taxes of $7,245 will be unchanged. Their energy-tax bill, currently $124 a year, will go up $73 under the Senate bill and $170 in the House plan...
They don't meet cute. As a matter of fact, they don't meet at all until the end of the movie. She hears him on a radio shrink's call-in program, into which he's been plugged by his eight-year-old son Jonah (Ross Malinger), who thinks it's time for Dad to get a life. Lots of other women respond to him too. Rue is a good emotional color for him, and he wears it well -- with a manliness that avoids self-pity and promises loyalty to anyone who wins his heart...
litigious shrink...
Vegetable fats, implicated in breast cancer in research on animals, don't seem to have an effect in humans. And a new drug, Taxotere, appears to shrink breast tumors...
Japan will need more, not less, labor to cope with its declining birthrate and aging population. By 2007, the number of Japanese will begin to shrink; in that same year, 20% will be over 65, making the population the most aged in the world. That means Japan will have fewer workers to support the costly medical, social security and other needs of aging parents and grandparents...