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During the campaign, Bush's tax-cut plan seemed too grandiose to many voters. But layoffs, slipping economic indicators and a blessing from Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan made the idea credible--and now Washington can smell a big tax cut the way hogs smell slop. Politicians are scrambling to the trough. Some of their schemes are well-intended--Senate majority leader Trent Lott wants to change the alternative minimum tax so it doesn't take such a big bite out of middle-class taxpayers--but all of them threaten to grow the beast. Lott's plan would bring Bush...
...marijuana business has, well, mushroomed as a result. Twenty hemp shops were in business across Switzerland in 1997, selling marijuana as "smell bags" and "dried flowers." Today there are as many as 300. Official figures show 600 acres of fields producing marijuana for some 600,000 occasional-to-regular consumers. "A lot of shops are making a lot of money because the margins are very high," says Francois Reusser, president of the Swiss Hemp Coordination, who also runs the Zurich hemp shop Chanf...
...essayist Edward Hoagland, in a splendid piece called "Dogs and the Tug of Life," mentions that the dog's sense of smell is at least a hundred times as keen as a man's. He goes on to become somewhat personal: "The way in which a dog presents his anus and genitals for inspection indicates the hierarchical position that he aspires to, and other dogs who sniff his genitals are apprised of his sexual condition. From his urine they can undoubtedly distinguish age, build, state of sexual activity and general health, even hours after he's passed...
...During the campaign, Bush's tax-cut plan seemed too grandiose to many voters. But layoffs, slipping economic indicators and a blessing from Fed chairman Alan Greenspan made the idea credible - and now Washington can smell a big tax cut the way hogs smell slop. Politicians are scrambling to the trough. Some of their schemes are well-intended - Senate majority leader Trent Lott wants to change the alternative minimum tax so it doesn't take such a big bite out of middle-class taxpayers - but all of them threaten to grow the beast. Lott's plan would bring Bush...
Would a C-minus by any other name still smell as rank...