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...keep some cash handy for the flight home. International departure and arrival taxes are on the rise, along with such levies as airport service and security charges, not to mention the more obscure "noise taxes." While many of these fees are built in to ticket prices, countries like Jamaica collect them on departure--cash only...
...saying that by holding the tobacco companies publicly accountable, they've already racked up an important victory. "This was never only about money," Rosenblatt said. "This was about showing up these companies for what they really are." Many of the plaintiffs--some of whom are unlikely to live to collect any damages--agreed. "No amount of money is going to change the way I have to eat," says throat-cancer victim Amodeo, who has to ingest nutrition through a hole in his stomach. "Fifteen cents, $15 million--it doesn't change...
...wives the same age--and of the poor widows, 80% weren't poor while their husbands were alive. Half of all couples who married in the past 20 years will divorce, and a mere 28% of divorced women are granted ongoing financial support. Of those, a third never collect a penny of the alimony or child support due them...
...Reform party will be the loudspeaker of protectionism, nativism and the religious right. Buchanan, set to collect $12 million in federal funds as a reward for Perot's two consecutive over-5 percent showings in 1992 and 1996, will doubtless run an entertaining campaign, screaming to be let into the debates and slinging his witty brand of populist mud into the mainstream fray. He will pray to his big, intrusive God that George W. Bush chooses a pro-choice running mate, because with Nader working the unions, the only table scraps left are disaffected far-righties - and even those...
Critics offer a solution: tort reform. They have been pushing for years for restrictions that would make it harder for trial lawyers to collect large punitive-damage awards, which often far exceed the actual damages. Forty-five states have enacted civil-justice-reforms laws that limit such awards; and the Republican-backed Litigation Fairness Act, which is pending in the Senate, would make lawsuits filed by the government subject to the same procedures and laws that apply to injured persons...