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...obese, toenail cutting can be tricky. This new tool aims to make it easier to snip from a distance...
...study is sure to become a tool in the hands of politicians wrangling over plans to reform the federal tax system. "If anyone had any doubt about the unfairness of our present tax code," said Democratic Congressman J.J. Pickle of Texas, "these figures should convince them." Pickle, who requested the report, is advocating a minimum-tax provision on personal income. The study, said a White House spokesman, "shows that fat cats pay little or no money. It's a perfect example of why the President wants tax reform." But tax-reform experts point out that many of the major loopholes...
Folsom's attempts to isolate gang leaders have failed, so when violence flares, authorities have been forced increasingly to use the single blunt tool at their disposal: confinement of all prisoners to their cells. During such "lock-downs," inmates are released only for a ten-minute shower every other day, spending the rest of the time seething in their cells. After each of Folsom's recent lock-downs, inmates have emerged ornery as ever. "All the lock-downs do is buy time," says Prison Chaplain James McGee...
Chongqing's factories are being allowed to turn out consumer products along with staples ordered by the government. The 98-year-old Jianshe Machine Tool Works, for example, produces Yamaha motorcycles as well as rifles. The reforms are stimulating competition. Jianshe's Yamahas are up against Hondas assembled in another Chongqing plant. Says Jianshe Plant Manager Chen Zisheng: "The competition is good. It makes us compete on quality, and that is important...
Even the much-maligned Section 215 of the Act, which authorizes the surveillance of library records and bookstore purchases, is more palpable when one learns that the domestic law enforcement version of this tool helped in the 1998 conviction of “Unabomber” Theodore J. Kaczynski ’62. Regardless, alarmists’ fears of this section might be assuaged by the fact that not a single library warrant has been issued under...