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...compares the major economies, those who pay the least are not the Europeans but the Japanese. Their total tax payments amount to only 26.1% of gross domestic product, and the Japanese resist even those with tenacity and skill. They still maintain a largely cash economy (checks are almost unknown), particularly at the retail level, where Japan has about 100,000 more stores than...
...determine the future progress of the epidemic, the CDC has launched an intensive investigation into the 6% of the victims (69 men, women and children) who do not appear to fit into any of the at-risk categories. About a third of these people "will remain unknown," says Curran; they died before CDC investigators could question them. But five are women whose husbands or lovers are drug addicts, suggesting that AIDS may be transmitted through heterosexual relations. Should that prove to be true, female partners of bisexual men are also at risk. Indeed, says Curran, one such woman...
...international competition that challenges the U.S. auto industry today was unknown when lacocca began his career. His father Nicola immigrated to the U.S. from southern Italy in 1902 and eventually built a small auto-rental business in Allentown, Pa., with 33 cars, mostly Fords. Surrounded by Model A's, Son Lido always wanted to work for Ford. After graduating from Lehigh and getting a master's in engineering at Princeton, he joined the company as an engineer in 1946, then quickly switched to a district sales job. By 1970, he had risen so far that only Henry Ford H, grandson...
...Open, but he elected not to play in the Davis Cup last week. His countrymen could have used him; the U.S. team was knocked out in the first round by the Argentines in Buenos Aires. Connors might not have been much help; last week he was defeated by an unknown from South Africa in the Belgian Indoor Championships. Could it be time to try a sideline like Fred's? Hmm, let's see, how about a film called Top Spin...
...after he had moved to England, Koestler turned his attention to anthropology, scientific phenomena and, ultimately, parapsychology. Recalling the "three out of every four friends" who had died or disappeared in the war, the Holocaust or the Gulag, he wrote, "Murder within the species is a phenomenon unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man and a few varieties of ants and rats." He sought explanations for human behavior outside the field of established science and attempted to revise ancient history. But scientists and critics were not always receptive...