As the accompanying article explains, the alternative minimum tax is designed to make sure that no one benefits too much from tax breaks. So if you get big breaks, you must recalculate your taxes differently. If the result is more tax, that's what you owe. And though the AMT has its ...
Some of the most basic questions about money are also central to figuring out what and who you want to be: What do I have, what do I want, how does that compare to others around me and how should I feel about it? In The New York Times’s 10th year of publishing teenagers’ colleg...
Blood counts: The complete blood count (CBC) is a test that measures the levels of red blood cells (RBC), white blood cells (WBC), and platelets in the blood. Blood chemistry tests: Levels of blood creatinine, albumin, and calcium will be particularly checked. A blood test that measures...
Longer residence at altitudes above 2100 to 2500 meters (7 – 8000 feet) is needed to raise hemoglobin levels and studies show that the effects are retained for about two to three weeks following the descent to sea level before levels eventually return to baseline [9, 7]. Increasing Hb by...