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...boomers tend to own their homes. As prices have soared over the past few years in almost every country except Germany, these homeowners have enjoyed big increases in the value of their total assets. But in many cases, the rise has pushed their net worth over the national minimum thresholds for inheritance tax, which haven't been adjusted in step with the housing boom. The result: almost anyone owning a detached house in London or southeast England is already well over the U.K. tax-free limit on estates of $540,000. France is even tougher. There, inheritance tax is levied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death's Other Sting | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

...address or full name. But experts question whether social network sites can prevent posters from lying about their age. The proposed changes "are inadequate because they lack any age verification and leave the minimum age too low," said Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. "They fail to raise the age threshold to 16 and take steps to verify age - as I and other attorneys general have repeatedly urged. They are a mirage of protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Suit in the MySpace Case? | 6/22/2006 | See Source »

Examining 311 women, the scientists discovered that those with the BB combination had spines fragile enough to fracture by about 18 years after menopause. Bb women reached this fracture threshold four years later, and those carrying bb genes not until 29 years after menopause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Bones Break | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

...That's a worrying threshold to cross, but the good news is that the virus doesn't seem to have spread outside the family. The 32-year-old man ran away from doctors after falling ill, and passed though four neighboring villages before he was apprehended, coming into contact with 33 people. All of them are currently under observation and being given the antiviral drug Tamiflu as a prophylactic, but none have shown signs of infection. Scientists have genetically sequenced two viruses isolated from the cluster and found no evidence of the kinds of significant mutations that would likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Bird Flu Cluster | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

...Ceylan came to the attention of world cinema three years ago with Uzak (Distant), which won the Grand Jury Prize (second place) and two acting awards. It was enthralling or infuriating, depend on your threshold of love or pain for emotional minimalism. Climates was much more involving, perhaps because it's simply a better, more human film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcards from Cannes | 5/22/2006 | See Source »

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