| Sam's Club(R) Flying High With Once-In-A-Lifetime Gift Packages ...
BENTONVILLE, Ark., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sam's Club, one of the nation's largest membership warehouse clubs announced it will make available Cessna's Citation Mustang Jet for $2,734,600 complete with a rare lifelong Membership to the Club as part of its Once-in-a Lifetime packages for the 2006 holiday season. The highly in-demand jet will be on display at the company's Home Office at 8th Street and Walton Blvd. Saturday, Oct. 7, from 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. The successful purchaser should find the Jet's historic flight into Bentonville complete with an escort down Walton Blvd. part of the allure, and reminiscent of Sam's Club founder and avid aviator, Mr. Sam Walton. In addition to the Citation Mustang and exclusive to Sam's Club Members are four tickets to football's championship game in Miami complete with passes to football legend Dan Marino's VIP reception.
Five Countries Plan Hike in Airfare Tax to Buy Drugs for AIDS ...
France, Brazil, Britain, Norway and Chile announced a tax on airline tickets to raise $300 million dollars to buy AIDS drugs for patients who cannot afford them. Representatives from the five nations, including Presidents Jacques Chirac of France and Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, were present for the announcement at the UN. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and former US President Bill Clinton also attended. Annan called the initiative to tax airline tickets an "innovative" way to raise money for AIDS patients. "It can provide a continuing source of funding," Annan said. "It is a real and immediate tool to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria." The plan, known under the acronym UNITAID and based in Geneva, can help pay for treatment of 100,000 children living with the AIDS virus and another 100,000 who have become resistant to the antiretroviral AIDS drugs.
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