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...know that some people on the left might oppose an award to Dr. Spiesel on the ground that an advancement in fighting head lice is basically a service to the rich, the medical equivalent of a Republican tax-cut plan. Dr. Spiesel himself has acknowledged that although head lice were formerly associated with poor people who couldn't afford proper hygiene, "these days, head lice seem to especially favor wealthier people...
...have helped, such as the SBA lending programs. The reduction in taxes has been a catalyst. If you look at capital-gains tax rates now, they are the lowest that they've ever been. This has spurred business formation and growth. And even if you look at estate taxes, although they are a major penalty to individuals, they have been coming down...
...Although well-intentioned, the state mandates drive up costs. In many states, one or two insurance providers enjoy near monopolies, leaving small-business owners few alternatives. In March the American Medical Association and the Pennsylvania Medical Society asked the Justice Department to investigate two Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans for anticompetitive practices in Pennsylvania, where they have about 70% of the market. "The small-business owner wants an option," says NFIB lobbyist John Emling...
Even Japan's legal system is tilted against the inventor. Although Japanese patent law requires firms to compensate employees for ideas that pay off, it doesn't specify how much. "There's nothing to stop a company from giving a researcher only a few hundred dollars for a major invention," says Yoshikazu Takaishi, a computer and telecommunications attorney in Tokyo. Furthermore, while U.S. law operates under the "first-invention rule"--awarding the patent to whoever comes up with the idea, regardless of when that person files an application--Japan uses the "first-application rule." So if an inventor's firm...
...sexiest presence in a movie last year? If you said Jude Law in The Talented Mr. Ripley, you get to go to the next round. This time, Law is a vampirish Londoner feasting on the blood of the women he beds and kills. Now he wants to be human, although he realizes that falling in love means an end to his predatory life. From its first shot, of a mangled car high up in the branches of a tree, this cool, handsome thriller proceeds with an elliptical elegance. Leong is the compassionate surgeon operating on a disease called longing...