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...experience is that simpler taxes, as well as lower taxes, can have an impact. Twenty years ago, Ireland had six different income-tax brackets; today it has just two. That's hugely appealing to tax reformers like Kirchhof in Germany, who believe that many of his nation's problems stem from a tax system that has grown too convoluted, with exemptions and loopholes that are counterproductive or even contradictory. Published last fall, his scheme would amount to a massive simplification of the tax system, eliminating all tax breaks and introducing a top 25% rate on annual income of more than...
...many ways, Wal-Mart's problems stem from the conservative, Southern culture fostered by founder Sam Walton, according to Ellen Rosen, who is writing a book about the role of women at retail companies, including Wal-Mart. The old-fashioned values were one of the things that attracted Deborah Zambrana, 37, an 11-year employee of the store in Wilson, N.C. Then a note she wrote requesting help sorting lingerie came back scrawled with a chauvinist comment. When a male colleague admitted to the deed, "instead of being reprimanded," says Zambrana, who like Adams is not one of the lead...
...talking about fetuses--human beings--being killed. We're talking about collections of cells in a Petri dish that are never, ever going to be a human being." RON REAGAN, reiterating his support and that of his mother Nancy for embryonic stem-cell research...
...scientists said they had no specific goals in mind when signing the letter, other than publicly standing behind Kerry’s recent promises to support science and lift restrictions on federal funds for stem cell research...
Several Harvard scientists were particularly critical of Bush’s conservative stance on stem cell research, a technique which proponents say has the potential to generate new organs and cure diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer?...