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...decade -- folks for whom sweat means something different from working out to Jane Fonda's mellifluous commands. Another factor is poverty: a jog in some neighborhoods is more dangerous to your health than staying behind a barricaded door. Earlier this year the government reported that the health gap between affluent, well-educated people and poor and poorly educated people had widened greatly over the past three decades: by 1986, it said, Americans with a family income of less than $9,000 a year had a death rate more than three times as high as people with a family income...
...doubt this rundown raised an eyebrow. the tawdriness of the local news only becomes an interesting issue when one considers who watches this news. It is not the public who watches MacNeil/Lehrer or the Nightly Business Report, or even 60 Minutes. They cater specifically to the more affluent and the more educated--not always the same people, but one viewership...
...bastions of Dead White Male supremacy, they are, to some critics, politically incorrect targets whose Eurocentric offerings are out of harmony with the larger, more black- and Hispanic-influenced American culture. As the urban cores have changed color, downtown-based orchestras have had an increasingly difficult time persuading affluent suburbanites to come into town after dark. And the collapse of music education in the country's public schools has meant that orchestras can no longer take for granted a constantly replenished, educated audience...
...increases and spending cuts. They eliminated Clinton's $72 billion tax on all forms of energy, substituting a 4.3 cents-per-gal. motor-fuels tax that will raise just $24 billion over the next five years and tacked on a 2.8% increase in the capital-gains tax for the affluent. With the First Lady's very discreet acquiescence, the Senators also cut an extra $19 billion from Medicare beyond the $49 billion already sought by Clinton. Now the bill moves to likely passage in the full Senate...
Readers often ask where we get our ideas. In this instance, it began with a report of a Belgium-based slave-trade ring and with news out of Eastern Europe that young women were bartering themselves as brides in exchange for a life in the more affluent West. While some of these marriages produced happy endings, contributor Frederick Painton was struck by the fact that the majority of women who leaped into these unions did so out of economic desperation. Reporters fanned out to probe the phenomenon. At the same time, assistant picture editor Jay Colton came across moving photos...