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The smart egg that shows you when it’s boiled to perfection
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The experts at the British Egg Information Service have been inundated with queries — so much so that they have decided to eliminate the guesswork once and for all.
Their solution? A self-timing egg imbued with the powers of heat-sensitive invisible ink that turns black the minute that it is ready. All you need to do is decide whether you prefer your eggs soft, medium or hard-boiled, and buy accordingly.
A spokeswoman for Lion Quality Eggs, the service’s quality assurance scheme, said: “We had a lot of inquiries. We said OK, this is a big issue — people can’t even boil an egg.?
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Tax Cheats Called Out of Control
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So many superrich Americans evade taxes using offshore accounts that law enforcement cannot control the growing misconduct, according to a Senate report that provides the most detailed look ever at high-level tax schemes.
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Cheating now equals about 7 cents out of each dollar paid by honest taxpayers, as much as $70 billion a year, the report estimated.
“The universe of offshore tax cheating has become so large that no one, not even the United States government, could go after all of it,? said Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat whose staff ran the investigation.
Senator Norm Coleman, the Minnesota Republican who is chairman of the subcommittee, adopted the minority report on Sunday as the product of the full committee.
The report details how the Quellos Group, a tax shelter boutique based in Seattle, “concocted a tax shelter? using $9.6 billion “worth of fake securities transactions that were used to generate billions of dollars of fake capital losses.?
Senator Levin said that when investigators asked for trading records they were first told the trades were private, over-the-counter transactions. He said investigators asked for trading tickets or other evidence of who owned the $9.6 billion worth of stock and were told the stocks were never owned by the parties involved.
“They just wrote down numbers on paper and claimed losses,? he said. “It was just like fantasy baseball, except the taxes not paid were for real.?
Can you guess what the Bush administration will to do stop these rich thieves? Yep!
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Today, the New York Times reports that the Bush Administration will lay off nearly half of the auditors at the IRS who are tasked with auditing the wealthiest Americans, whose overall Federal taxes have decreased under the Bush Administration policies.
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Children arrested, DNA tested, interrogated and locked up… for playing in a tree
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To the 12-year-old friends planning to build themselves a den, the cherry tree seemed an inviting source of material.
But the afternoon adventure turned into a frightening ordeal for Sam Cannon, Amy Higgins and Katy Smith after they climbed into the 20ft tree – then found themselves hauled into a police station and locked in cells for up to two hours.
Their shoes were removed and mugshots, DNA samples and mouth swabs were taken.
Be thankful it’s not a annoying ad that shows up after boiling!
(“Boiling hot? Get an Acme airco!”)
(“Think this is hot? Call our hot babes at 1-900-HOT-BABE.”)
Uh yeah, you mean like these?
http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/18/news/funny/cbs_eggs/index.htm
Come on John, this calls for an “if you’re in marketing, kill yourself” post!
It does, doens’t it. Amazing find, Maarten.