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...approach - a $31.6 billion reduction over the next five years. One sticking point: in exchange for the higher exemptions, it may do away with the caps, which are confusing but nonetheless popular with - if not financially necessary for - homeowners who currently benefit from them. But whatever deal is struck, it will probably have to be put to a constitutional voter referendum as part of Florida's presidential primary next January. Which is exactly how Californians voted on Prop...
...saved her lunch money to buy fashion magazines, and she was appalled to find in Japan a country of young women hunched over and wobbling in untrendy shoes, avoiding the sun to keep pale, hiding under too many layers of stockings and Bridget Jones underwear. "The first thing that struck me was - I have to liberate these women!" she says. Ligron improvised a one-woman finishing school for Miss Japan contestants, which involves stripping in front of a triptych of mirrors to learn to be comfortable with their bodies. The women would also live with the beauty producer for months...
...real story or was it all just a creation of your very sensitive mind? -Verónica Meersohn, Puerto Montt, ChileIt was something I invented. Although stories like this are occasionally in the newspapers-so I must have read a couple of stories in newspapers about such things. It struck me as peculiarly painful and retched experience for a parent to go through, especially if it is not resolved quickly. One could say bleakly that with the tragedy of a death there is some chance of making some kind of adaptation, but with this the wound is always opened...
...real presence at the meetings,” Jacobsen says. “She gave us all sorts of help and guidance. For somebody that accomplished, I was really struck by how personable and down-to-earth...
Thailand loves a good fight: Thais flock to watch kick-boxing, Olympic boxing (the first sport in which the Kingdom struck gold at the Games) and even transvestite boxing - one of the country's biggest celebrities is champion pugilist Parinya Charoenphol, who fought like a man to earn enough money to become a woman. Now, Thais have a new champion to celebrate: In April, a pint-sized woman named Siriporn Taweesuk, a.k.a. the Black Rose, did her homeland proud by pummeling her feisty Japanese opponent to capture the World Boxing Council light-flyweight title. The only catch? Siriporn is currently...