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...voter, at the precise moment he was halfway finished punching the ballot, changed his mind and stopped. The situation is much like the classic movie scene in which the good guy faces the cornered villain and the dilemma of whether to shoot. The hero slowly pulls back the trigger to within a nano-inch of firing, hesitates--and stops. Makes great fiction, but do we really believe that happened thousands of times in Florida? DREW SUNDBERG Brussels...
...welcome news to clinicians and patients alike. Traditional cancer treatments-chemotherapy and radiation-are therapeutic blunderbusses; they blast indiscriminately at all fast-growing cells, often destroying healthy tissue along with the tumors. By comparison, the new drugs are like smart bombs that cause minimal collateral damage and trigger relatively few side-effects...
...year-end holidays, when the absence of relatives is most poignant. Many of the 77 million baby boomers, now well into middle age, live farther from their brothers and sisters than did previous generations. And with each passing year, they face more of the life passages that often trigger splits with siblings, particularly arguments over the care of elderly parents or over their estates. At the same time, boomers have more divorces and fewer children and are less tethered to neighbors than were their parents and grandparents, so they are more in need of strong relationships with sisters and brothers...
Major life changes such as marriage, divorce, birth, illness or death can trigger a separation, Netzer says, but usually only if tensions have been building for years. Consider, for example, the case of Michael Carr, 42, a money manager, and his older brother Steven, who ended contact with each other two years ago. When they were growing up, Michael saw Steven, two years older, as his best friend and guardian angel. "We were really close," Michael says. "He was the ringleader in the neighborhood. He was my hero." (Steven did not respond to requests for an interview...
...earn well under $100,000 a year. By 2010, 10% of filers will pay the AMT, a complicated tax that effectively takes back deductions for Everyman expenses like state property and income levies and medical care as well as personal exemptions for children. The central issue is that the trigger point for the AMT doesn't rise with the cost of living. Look for that trigger to be indexed to inflation. Full repeal probably isn't in the cards...