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...than thrilled with the directive, claiming the new regulations could create a fuel crunch by curtailing production and rendering diesel fuel prohibitively expensive - an increase of at least 10 cents per gallon, by most estimates. "Oil companies generally resist regulation by predicting disastrous short-term effects," says TIME international editor Charles Alexander. "And there could well be short-term shortages to deal with, but the market will adjust; it always has before. The EPA is taking the long view on pollution, which is exactly what they should be doing." Unfortunately for its opponents, the EPA proposal may not encounter much...
...York City's financial district, the bug hit early risers especially hard. "If I had been here a few minutes later, nothing would have happened," says Vincent Cecolini, an editor for the RIA Group, a publisher of financial books. By the time his company's computer technicians arrived, they found 2,000 corrupted messages in his Out box and spent the rest of the day wrestling with the damage. "I was terrorized," says Cecolini. "My stomach was in knots." Old Westbury, N.Y., businessman Kamal Dandona's experience was even more nightmarish. Organizer of a major Bombay film industry-awards show...
...naively assumed that when a writer as well known and respected as Lerone Bennett Jr. came out with a provocative book arguing that Abraham Lincoln was a racist who kept more blacks in bondage than he ever emancipated, it would kick up a stir. After all, Bennett, the executive editor of Ebony and the author of such works of black history as Before the Mayflower (1962), has long been one of America's most eloquent voices on racial issues. And the target of his furious screed is perhaps the most revered figure in American history. Putting the two together seemed...
...West Wing TV show mingled with the staff of the real West Wing at last month's White House correspondents' dinner, it wasn't all just idle chatter. For instance, Gene Sperling, head of the National Economic Council and Washington's uber-wonk, sought out executive story editor Lawrence O'Donnell to talk about an episode involving the Federal Reserve chairman. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright marched up to Patrick Caddell, once the right hand of Jimmy Carter and now a consultant for the show, and told him how much she liked the India-Pakistan episode. "She said...
...heir can stretch out mandatory distributions over his or her remaining lifetime, giving the savings an additional 40 or 50 years to grow tax free. "The key is to pass IRA savings on to heirs intact so the money keeps growing long after you are gone," says Ed Slott, editor of Ed Slott's IRA Advisor. The travesty, Slott says, is that many estate planners are well versed in how to handle real estate, a family business, stocks and bank deposits but know very little about IRA distributions. "Bank tellers do most of the estate planning in this country," Shenkman...