Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia impose their own estate or inheritance taxes on money left to anyone other than a spouse (see map).

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Ian Lipkin, a Columbia researcher who was an author on the Science paper, says his bee work could provide "a road map for addressing outbreaks of infectious disease" like SARS. Metagenomics could also open a window on the invisible microbes, still undiscovered, that live in the earth, air and sea.

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