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Inheritance tax used to make the news only when it forced once super-rich dynasties to flog their heirlooms after the head of the family died. But suddenly, death is getting expensive for a much larger number of Europeans, and that's starting to attract the attention of politicians and headline writers across the Continent. Furious discussions about whether to limit, amend or suppress inheritance taxes broke out last week in both Britain and France. In Italy, meanwhile, there's controversy and skepticism about plans by the new government[an error occurred while processing this directive] of Romano Prodi...
DIED. Bubba, 24, 154-lb. "super grouper" at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium who in 2002, after cancer was diagnosed, became the first known fish to receive chemotherapy, inspiring and energizing children afflicted with cancer nationwide; of various conditions and old age; in Chicago...
...director Dennis Wend told Difflock magazine. "So, we sat down and studied those old movies. They got a lot of ideas from them." The SmarTruck features high voltage door handles, laser guns, a grenade launcher, a pepper spray canister with a six-foot range, and special super-bright headlights that disorient anyone outside. The vehicle also comes equipped with night vision and is surrounded by cameras that allow those inside to see a 360-degree panorama of their surroundings. The cameras, doors, windows, cell phone and radio are all voice activated. While there have been SmarTruck...
...food writer and broadcaster (we'll call him G.) who had chosen the same dates to review the hotel and its famed restaurant, La Trattoria Toscana. Together with G.'s swanlike girlfriend, we put that hotel through its paces. We chomped through the menu in the Trattoria and raced, super-charged, through the super[an error occurred while processing this directive] Tuscans in its cellars. We slept through breakfast, a vast help-yourself spread of cakes, pastries, cured meats, cheeses and fruits, only to emerge in the late morning, demanding the kitchen reopen to provide us with brunch. Our evening...
...Senate, Hillary was initially denied the spot she sought on one of the so-called super-A committees--Appropriations, Armed Services, Finance and Foreign Relations. So she went with her expertise, taking a seat on the Health and Education Committee, among others. But she persisted in lobbying for better assignments. In 2003 she ditched the Budget Committee, which sounds more important than it is, to take a spot that had opened on Armed Services. She was one of the first in Congress to point out that U.S. forces in Iraq lack the armor they need. After 9/11, she became...