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...services firm Scottish Widows, who calculates that about 1 in 3 of Britain's 24 million households now have estates that would fall within the taxman's reach. Young herself admits she has an inheritance-tax "problem." Blame the explosion of house prices. Unlike their parents, European baby boomers tend to own their homes. As prices have soared over the past few years in almost every country except Germany, these homeowners have enjoyed big increases in the value of their total assets. But in many cases, the rise has pushed their net worth over the national minimum thresholds for inheritance...
...Israelis failed to destroy Hizballah's leadership or even halt its barrage of rockets, and 159 Israelis died in the conflict. As a result, the presence of the reservists on Olmert's doorstep is more than an eyesore. Protests by army reservists--practically every Israeli home has one--tend to gather momentum. And this movement is being joined by families of soldiers killed in the brawl with Hizballah. All that has sent Olmert's political stock plummeting. At the start of the Lebanon campaign, he was seen as tough and decisive, a lanky Churchill puffing a cigar. Today...
...generation of small galaxies, containing no more than a million second-generation stars, gradually collided, merging to form ever bigger objects that eventually reached the size of the Milky Way. One piece of evidence: the faintest and oldest galaxies found in any great number by the Hubble telescope tend to be small and irregular in shape, not the majestic spirals and huge elliptical galaxies that formed later. Another hint that the merger theory is correct is that the collisions are still going on today. Astronomers can see hundreds of colliding galaxies in their telescopes, and our own Milky...
...wrapping a mountain with a bow. ("Beautiful mountain, could you take the bow off, please?") And even Farquhar admits the piece may have gone a step too far. His more modest projects--an illuminated path through a lovely Scottish glen, a festival of light showcasing Glasgow's architectural treasures--tend to be more successful, exploring hidden layers of meaning in familiar places by literally shedding new light on them. --By Michael Brunton/London
...pretend to provide their listeners with the universality of great pop. But each singer--or, in Hilton's case, the person whose voice rises and falls rhythmically on the album--is known as much for her multiplatform celebrity as for her songs. All four women feel the need to tend to constituencies that may have wandered over from TV, the multiplex or the gossip-mag rack, and inevitably they usher their notoriety into their music. For those of us who like pop for pop's sake, the degree to which the albums succeed is entirely a function of how much...