Word: talk
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...even talk about fairness. Almost no one disputes that most of the benefit of the proposed tax break for capital gains -- profits from the sale of investment assets such as stocks and real estate -- would go to people with incomes of more than $200,000 a year, or that the average person in that pleasant category would save $25,000 a year in taxes. The dispute is whether this break (which has passed the House and is currently stalled in the Senate) would be so good for the economy that we would all prosper from it, making resistance on fairness...
...really can't function as a celebrity," she says, sitting at her drafting table, where she likes to sketch and talk at the same time. "Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect, I'm an artist, I make things. I just love the fact that I can make a work and put it out there and walk away from it and then look at it like everyone else...
...unnervingly lifelike. (Any guesses?) And Freddy Krueger, the razor-clawed maniac from the Nightmare on Elm Street films, was back to his old tricks, scaring the wits out of people in their sleep. His latest victim: a dream expert who, convinced Freddy was after him, went berserk on a talk show and was shot to death in front of a live TV audience. Eat your heart out, Geraldo...
There should be plenty to talk about this week at the annual conference of the Society for Risk Analysis. (Yes, there really is one.) The 800 or so actuaries, social scientists, lawyers and psychologists who are expected to attend will gather in -- what better place? -- San Francisco. They need only step outside their hotels to see a city that has become one vast society for risk analysis. All around the Bay Area these days, amid the tumbled roadways and jolted buildings left by the earthquake, people are asking themselves: Is it crazy to live on a fault line...
Greenhouse effect education week at Harvard will start off with a talk by State Representative Lawrence R. Alexander, an active sponsor of environmental protection legislation. Other lecturers will include Professor Michael B. McElroy, chair of the Deparment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and William C. Clark, an environmental policy expert...