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  One employee said that when preparing for audits, he routinely requests taxpayers' files from the state agencies because they are more likely to have the documents....
• According to a poll of 200 charitable organizations, donations of money to nonprofit groups increased by nearly 25 percent last year, though not all charities gained equally.
  Religious groups gained the most (30 percent), followed by environmental groups (23 percent), whereas educational institutions experienced only a very small increase in donations (3 percent)....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• IRS employees who answer the agency's toll-free hotline dispense incorrect advice at least 30% of the time, according to an internal audit.
• A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
  -- John Updike...
• The following appeared in a health newsletter. "A ten-year nationwide study of the effectiveness of wearing a helmet while bicycling indicates that ten years ago
  approximately 35 percent of all bicyclists reported wearing helmets, whereas today that number is nearly 80 percent....
• According to the General Accounting Office, the IRS has no idea how it spent 64% of its budget in 1992 (an astonishing $
  4.3 billion) -- and none of the agency's financial statements from 1992 to 1996 can be verified by GAO auditors....
• ping [from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1.
  . Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a computer to check for the presence and alertness of another....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....