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...Orange County, Fla., investors are saving more than $7 million each year by claiming that plots being converted into shopping malls and subdivisions are farmland and qualify for property-tax breaks. Farther south, near Fort Lauderdale, "we have cows walking over pavement and grazing outside hotels," says Broward County appraiser Lori Parrish. She points to a Courtyard by Marriott, where some 40 head of cattle had cut yearly taxes on the 18-acre plot to $618.94 before the hotel opened. The herd did not check out when the Courtyard started welcoming guests last year: in 2005 the cows chewed some...
...sharpest new way to search for bargain flights is on Kayak.com The site covers fares on some 300 airlines in any given week and saves time by letting you adjust search parameters, using a sliding dial, without having to start from scratch. It's also handy for getting hotel and car-rental deals...
...globetrotting. "It frees the TV from the confines of the living room." Krikorian put the device to the test in Cannes a few weeks ago. Attending an annual television conference called MipTV, where producers, broadcasters and Internet companies buy and sell programming, he stayed up until dawn in his hotel to watch his beloved ucla Bruins lose the ncaa basketball title game to the Florida Gators on an IBM T43 ThinkPad laptop. A couple of hours later he sheepishly dragged himself to the keynote podium and sarcastically declared: "Today's one of the first days I'm really upset...
...World Bank country head Ken Ohashi. While the republican movement has wide support, many protesters are teenagers or 20-something Nepali men in Nirvana and Metallica T shirts who have no leader, no organization and few goals beyond throwing rocks at authority figures. Cars, shops and the Hyatt Regency Hotel have all been attacked in the past weeks. "There is no mechanism in place to create a new government," says Ohashi. "The Maoists could walk into Kathmandu by default." At the very least, says the friend of the royals, "Autocracy would switch to anarchy." It's a scenario that Nepal...
...Just outside the posh Hyatt hotel, Achyut Adhikari, a student, was gathered with a few hundred others after the rains in defiance of the curfew: when word spread that the police were firing rubber bullets - and that they have been firing at crowds throughout the city - Adhikari and the others turned and ran, tearing through bushes and gardens, jumping over walls, to make it to safety. "Of course I'll be back tomorrow," Adhikari said, at the end of it all, panting for breath. "What else is there to do? We'll keep coming until the King gives...