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...dollar out of it. But I would like to see organ cloning become a reality." He was inspired to launch the business, he says, after a young cousin died of leukemia. "There are megadollars involved, and everyone is racing to be the first," he says. As for his own slice of the pie, Sloan says he just sold his firm to a French company, which he refuses to name, and that he is heading for Hawaii. The Southern Cross factory address turns out to be his mother's house, and his "office" phone is answered by a man claiming...
Marc Rich trades nearly every plant, mineral and fuel that can be taken from the earth and turned into profit. He does it on such a grand scale that his trades actually affect how much Americans pay for a slice of bread or a light bulb. "Some say he is the greatest trader since Moses made a deal to part the Red Sea," says biographer A. Craig Copetas, a Wall Street Journal reporter. When Clinton pardoned Rich last month, it was yet another deal--a business problem that took 18 years for Rich to solve...
...Professor Skip Gates" is "New and Hip, with teriyaki sauce, a slice of pineapple, cole slaw and onion rings...
...majority of the proceeds go to the record label that produces the CD instead of to the artist. This system of compensation may have made sense when the only means of distributing music was through the sale of cassettes and CDs--the companies that made music portable deserved a slice of the pie. But as technology has progressed, the vested interest of the recording industry in maintaining the status quo threatens to undermine new and better ways of distributing music...
...high earners deserve relief? The reality is that the top 5% of taxpayers (adjusted gross income above $115,000) pay 54% of federal income tax revenue. The top half account for 96%. We already have progressive tax brackets that claim a bigger slice from the well off, and we've just about eliminated federal income tax for half of all people with income. With a huge surplus, why complicate things with targeted cuts that are set too low anyway? And why not give something to those who tote the bill...