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The U.S. Treasury Department’s Historical Association announced it is raising money this year by offering for sale Internal Revenue Service gift ornaments that commemorate the 80th anniversary of the 16th Amendment, which authorized the income tax. The $11 ornaments are “24-carat, gold-finished, three-dimensional” models of a 1913 income tax form.
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Two Milwaukee Psychiatric Hospital doctors, reporting in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, described the case of a 44-year-old man who attempted suicide through an overdose of nicotine. After consuming a pot of strong coffee, he stuck seven nicotine patches to his chest and began smoking cigarettes, two at a time, hoping to induce a heart attack. After two hours he panicked and abandoned the attempt.
