Donna Balon
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Abracadabra: Can You Escape Income Tax?The hassle of filing and the burden of paying income tax every year may make you wonder whether you can eliminate the paperwork and make your tax rate zero.
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Your Fairytale: Turning Your Hobby into a Business—Will the IRS Agree?The tax rules of turning your hobby into a business are simplified in a fairytale story.
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Three Volunteers—Who Gets a Charitable Tax Deduction?Three situations illustrate whether volunteers may deduct their out-of-pocket expenses as charitable contributions on their income tax returns.
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London B&B was Triple-AThe Bed & Breakfast Club offered an authentic stay in London.
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More Than Meets the EyeIn its friend-of-the-court brief filed in August 2011 with the U.S. Supreme Court, the American Psychological Association explains its pro-defendant position of eyewitnesses: 1out of 3 are wrong.
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What's Wrong with This Motion Picture?Tobacco use in motion pictures influences young people to start smoking. A collective effort has reduced onscreen smoking to discourage youths from picking up the habit.
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Las Vegas Skyline Adds Potemkin TowerThe unfinished sister tower of The Venetian and The Palazzo is wrapped in cloth, mimicking the look of an Italian Renaissance building. -
Educated Leaders Do Matter, but Their Fateful Facts Are More InterestingDo Educated Leaders Matter? published in The Economic Journal confirms the expected answer. This well-intended study is dead-cold reading with a lively appendix. -
The Right Stuff?Researchers at the German Aerospace Center published their study of the astronaut selection process in Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors. Unique testing is needed to select future astronauts made of the right stuff.
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Too Many Young Men Drive Consumer SpendingResearch professors published a study in the July issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology showing that the consumer spending of young men is affected by the number of rival young men in the same locale.
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Why Your Clothes Don't FitA study published by Harvard University researchers in the June England Journal of Medicine is the basis of this article. Readers learn how bad habits can increase weight over time and good habits can maintain or even decrease weight.