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...perhaps pained by the long hours his tax-collector father spent doing sums, a 19-year-old French prodigy named Blaise Pascal made an automatic device that could add or subtract with the turning of little wheels. But the clerks who spent their lives doing calculations in those days viewed Pascal's gadget as a job threat, and it never caught on. A short time later, the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz added the power of multiplication and division. Said he: "It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculations...
...schools humbled the Golden Eight on the gridiron, as the league compiled a collective 6-18 against non-Ivy opponents. Subtract Yale's 3-0 mark against outsiders, and the disgrace of it all becomes even more evident...
...estimated 25 million Americans have dyslexia, a condition that has been detectable for years by a battery of tests. Dyslectics, who are often lefthanded or ambidextrous, tend to reverse letters (b for d), twist words (was for saw), confuse word order (please up hurry), subtract from left to right, or have difficulty with sequential thinking. Despite these problems, they may be intellectually brilliant, with oral skills so keen they are able to bluff their way through early grades. Dyslectics can become high achievers like Edison, Einstein, General Patton, Nelson Rockefeller and Bruce Tenner. But they are often misdiagnosed as retarded...
...most widely claimed deductions allows home owners to subtract mortgage interest payments from their declared income. That measure will cost Uncle Sam an estimated $25.3 billion this year. Many liberal politicians and economists have urged limiting the amount of mortgage interest considered tax deductible, but President Reagan last week again repeated his opposition to any such move...
...Every property owner should subtract about 15 percent of what they paid in property tax in the last fiscal year. This is what they can expect to pay if the override of Proposition 2 1/2 is defeated, and Proposition 2 1/2 remains intact. (That is a NO vote to both questions). For example, if you paid $1500 in the last fiscal year, deduct $225 and your bill will be about...