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...might be enough to persuade Mick Jagger, David Bowie and other celebrated tax exiles to come home to Britain. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government took another step last week in its campaign to simplify British taxes and reduce the top rate. The latest budget calls for a sweeping tax reform similar to legislation passed in the U.S. in 1986. Under Thatcher's plan, six tax brackets, in which rates range from 27% to 60%, will be reduced to two: individuals with taxable incomes of (pounds)19,300 (about $35,500) a year or less will pay 25%, those...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, another computer is struggling to learn what any three-year-old child already knows: the difference between a cup and a saucer. What the youngster sees at a glance, the computer must be taught, painstakingly, one step at a time. First it must comprehend the concept of an object, a physical thing distinguished from the space around it by edges and surfaces. Then it must grasp the essential attributes of cupness: the handle, the leakproof central cavity, the stable base. Finally, it must deal with the exceptions, like the foam-plastic cup whose heat-insulating properties...
...agreement was the first concrete step toward ending the conflict, which has killed more than 40,000 people...
Gustavo Tablada of the Socialist Party called the move "a historic step...a serious and responsible compromise...
Trouble continued this week across Central America. In El Salvador, Communist rebels disrupted national elections by destroying power lines, kidnapping local officials, and threatening terrorist attacks on innocent civilians. And notwithstanding his offer to step down as armed forces chief, Gen. Manuel Noriega still maintains his grip on the reins of power in Panama--a country where the once-familiar "Yanqui go home" has now become "Noriega go home...