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...ability to give as gifts as much as $10,000 per person per year provide adequate shelter from estate-tax rates that can rise to an onerous 55%. But if the bull market has swelled your estate to $1.5 million or more, consider these tax breaks now--before they vanish...
...pieces of the familial puzzle fall into place, the novel starts to slowly simmer. The vignettes, always sharp and memorable even when their point is nor readily apparent, become increasingly lucid as the mystery unravels. Cavalcades of transient images fill three or four pages at a time and then vanish, but their aftereffects are less ephemeral. The constant aggregation of detail that comes with passing years explains exactly the boy's gradual understanding of his tortured familial history...
...many other software experts believe, millions of computer systems could go haywire, shutting down life as we know it and turning our information age into a digitally dysfunctional society. Electric and phone service could be lost. Banks and supermarkets shuttered. Life savings could vanish and lives be imperiled...
...talking so volubly to your invisible friend that the overhearer begins thinking he may be the one who is nuts; this works only if you and your nonexistent friend vanish quickly around a corner...
...tough but effective trick: make yourself dematerialize, or make the talking-to-yourself moment vanish, in the way that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis used to disappear psychically, even when people were looking directly at her. The overhearer should think that somehow he hallucinated the moment. Remember that in the age of television, reality dissolves, moment to moment, into thin...