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...Bush plan at least raises some limits. The child credit, which he wants to double to $1,000, wouldn't begin to phase out until annual household income reaches $200,000--up from $110,000 for couples and $75,000 for singles. It's also likely that the threshold for converting to a Roth would jump to $160,000 and that the threshold for new Roth contributions would be indexed to rise with inflation. On another front, though, Bush is proposing yet another means test. Couples earning $160,000 would not be eligible for a $5,000-per-child deduction...
...estate tax puts a cap on non-taxable inheritances - currently $675,000, and already scheduled to be raised to an even million by 2006. (Farms and family businesses already enjoy the $1 million exemption.) Amounts above that threshold are taxed at rates that begin at 37 percent and rise to 55 percent for anything greater than $3 million...
...Although the College has the same number of binge drinkers as colleges across the nation, Harvard drinkers would be wallflowers in Animal House. Only a quarter of Harvard's binge drinkers meet Wechsler's threshold for "frequent" bingeing, which he places at more than twice in a two-week period...
...baseness is no replacement for innovation. The difference between the real innovators and Fox’s knock-offs demonstrates the real flaw in voyeurism as a marketing scheme: it self-destructs. The rush of novelty quickly dissipates and the threshold of curiosity creeps higher. At some point, terminal apathy sets in and a viewer becomes unshockable. The resulting cynicism among viewers, and their disconcerting attempts to recreate fantasy in a now dissatisfying life, seem undesirable if not outright destructive to individuals and society...
Mezrich, who is the author of the books Reaper, Threshold and The X-Files: Skin, said the Harvard name was part of what helped him to land an agent and then a book contract...