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                                                         THE POWER OF RESIDUAL INCOME                                      Have you ever fantasized about writing a hit           record or a best-selling book then spending the rest of           your life collecting fat royalty checks?            Unfortunately, for 99.9% of us, that's a fantasy that           will never come true.                           Network marketing has something just as good as           royalties.  It's called "residual income," and         ...

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 *mmddyyyy Birthdays *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ B11021734 Daniel Boone B11021795 James K. Polk, 11th President (1845-1849) B11021865 Warren G. Harding, 29th President (1921-1923) B11021885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer. B11031718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same. B11041879 Will Rogers B11041916 Walter Cronkite, "...and that's the way it is" B11051857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy). B11051912 Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger B11061771 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography. B11061851 Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co. B11061854 John Phillip Souza, the march king B11061861 James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball. B11071867 Madame Marie Curie, discovered radium. B11081656 Edmond Halley, astronomer, 1st to calculate a comet's orbit. B11091934 Carl Sagan B11101668 Francois Couperin, composer B11101819 Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success ...

  *mmddyyyy Birthdays *-------- ----------------------------------------------------------- B10171817 Samuel Ringgold Ward, minister, abolitionist, author, born B1017     on the  Eastern Shore of Maryland. B10021800 Nat Turner, leader of major slave rebellion, born in South B1002     ampton County, Virginia. *mmddyyyy Events *-------- ----------------------------------------------------------- S10081775 Council of general officers decided to bar slaves and free S1008     blacks from Continental Army. S10231775 Continental Congress approved resolution barring blacks S1023     from the army. S10171787 Boston blacks, led by Prince Hall, petitioned legislature S1017     for equal school facilities. S10091806 Death of mathematician Benjamin Banneker (74), in Ellico S1009     tt's Mills, Maryland. S10061847 National black convention met in Troy, N.Y., with more than S1006     six...

 *mmddyyyy Birthdays *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ B10011881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft company. B10011924 Jimmy Carter, 39th President (1976-1980) B10021851 Ferdinand Foch, believed to be the leader responsible for B10021851CAllies winning World War I. B10021869 Mahatma Ghandi, pacifist. B10031803 John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration B10031804 Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan B10031925 Gore Vidal, writer. B10041822 Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President (1877-1881) B10041895 Buster Keaton B10041931 Dick Tracy B10051829 Chester A. Arthur, 21st President (1881-1884) B10051882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, father of modern rocketry B10051905 Ray Kroc, who gave Ronald McDonald a job. B10061820 Jenny Lind, nightengale B10061846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US. B10061866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music B10071885 Niels Bohr, physicis...

                                                               Medical Expenses                                 38) A critical strategy for maximizing medical expense           deductions is known as "bunching." The idea is to pay           as many medical bills in one year as possible.  The           7.5% floor on medical expense deductions requires this           tactic.  Once your medical bills for the year exceed           the floor, all expenses above that amount are fully           deductible.  So you want to make payments that year           whenev...

                              Opening Format                              by Tony Curro     A few days ago you stuffed yourself with turkey. Now, it is time to     do your Christmas shopping. I hope you checked out my picks last     month to help in your purchases. There were many programs that I did     not touch on last month. I mainly focused on utilities and games. No     word processors were mentioned. The reason was that I had not yet     looked at MS Word 6.0 for Windows. After looking at it, I feel that     if you purchase it, or WordPerfect 6.0 for Windows, you will not be     disappointed. These are the two big pro grams for Windows. Both     companies have improved and enhanced their products. Word has made     it easy for WordPer...