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Everything about Dream Arcades' home entertainment center is huge: the 100-inch screen, the list of included classic titles, the $4,500 price tag. In Gear Factor. Recent Tax Law Changes May Affect People Giving to Charity: IRS Offers
This fact sheet discusses changes from summer 2006 legislation that "offers older owners of individual retirement accounts [IRAs] a new way to give to charity. It also includes rules designed to provide both taxpayers and the government greater certainty in determining what may be deducted as a charitable contribution."Topics include a new tax break for IRA owners and rules for deducting clothing and household items and monetary donations. From the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Naval Research Laboratory Scientists Analyze Comet Wild 2 Samples
Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have analyzed samples from Comet Wild 2, as part of NASA's Stardust mission, the first solid sample return mission since Apollo. Over 100 scientists at various institutions participated in the preliminary analysis. NRL contributed to the Mineralogy and Petrology, Crater, Bulk Chemistry and Isotope analysis teams by studying the structure and composition of the comet samples using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). 'Nymph Of The Sea' Reveals Remarkable Brood
Geologists from the United Kingdom and the United States have made an unusual discovery from over 425 million years ago ... hard boiled eggs! The scientists discovered the mother complete with her brood of some 20 eggs and 2 possible juveniles inside, together with other details of her soft part anatomy including legs and eyes. Eleanor &Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. T
Facsimiles and transcriptions of the 1945-1959 correspondence between Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. The correspondence shows how "from a formal, often wary, political relationship developed also a strong friendship. Ultimately, Harry Truman designated Eleanor Roosevelt as his representative on the United Nations and 'First Lady of the World.'"Includes biographies, lesson plans, photos, and related links. A joint project of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library. Aging Adults Have Choices When Confronting Perceived Mental Declines
Aging adults may joke about memory lapses and "early Alzheimer's."But they have more control over their "cognitive vitality"than they may realize, according to a professor of educational psychology. It's all part of what she has playfully named the "Dumbledore hypothesis of cognitive aging,"based on a line from the headmaster Dumbledore in the third Harry Potter novel: "It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Women and the Holocaust: A Holocaust Education Resource for Teachers
This collection of curriculum resources covers topics related to women and the Holocaust, such as women's survival in concentration camps, women artists in the Warsaw Ghetto, and resistance activities of women in camps. Resources are for middle and high school classrooms, covering history, social studies, literature, and art history subjects. Many of the topic areas include bibliographies. From the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Infomat: Fashion Industry Information Services: Who's Who
This site provides information about dozens of fashion designers. "Find biographies and profiles on designers and professionals in the apparel, textile and accessories industries. Trace the career paths of fashion industry legends, find out where they are now and current company contact information."Includes information about couture and other collections and runway shows. Browsable by name. MIT, Columbia Begin New Energy Experiment: Half-ton Levitating Ring Is
MIT and Columbia University students and researchers have begun operation of a novel experiment that confines high-temperature ionized gas, called plasma, using the strong magnetic fields from a half-ton superconducting ring inside a huge vessel reminiscent of a spaceship. Fingerprinting Hackers: Technique Demonstrates Wireless Device Driver
The next time you're sipping a latte and surfing the Net at your favorite neighborhood wireless café, someone just a few seats away could be breaking into your laptop and causing irreparable damage to your computer's operating system by secretly tapping into your network card's unique device driver, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in have concluded.
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