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...therefore, so did the federal government's payroll tax revenue. Third, Congress repeatedly increased the payroll tax rate (in the past 50 year, it has gone from 2 percent to 12.4 percent). Unfortunately, times have changed. In particular, the number of workers per retiree has decreased dramatically with the aging of the American population. The problem will only get worse when the Baby Boomers begin to retire. To maintain the existing system's solvency, we will have no choice but to increase taxes, reduce benefits, and/or raise the retirement age...

Author: By Michael Roberto, | Title: Debunking the Social Security Myth | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

According to Hartmann, HR 4796A, a star about 20 times more luminous than the Sun, is "about 8 to 10 million years old" which he said is around the age at which planets are estimated to form...

Author: By L. MARIKA Landau-wells, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grad Student Finds Proto-Planet | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...print, would feel that his work is now "off-limits." Who is Fritzner? It turns out that he is a Haitian folk artist who was born on July 18, 1938 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was leather tanner, like his father before him, until 1972, when at the age of 34 he painted his first tableau. He has been an artist ever since. Fritzner is part of a generation of Haitian artists to be influenced by the Centre d' Arte, which was founded in 1944. As The Art of Haiti webpage explains, the founders of the Centre d'Arte...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: What's in a Watermelon? | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...country. "My conscience is clear," he told journalist Nate Thayer in a rare interview last October, never admitting his appalling conduct, never regretting the countless executions, the million more dead of starvation and overwork, the living population maimed in body or mind, the entire country reduced to Stone Age survival. Nineteen years after the hated Vietnamese drove him back into the jungle, the evil that he did lives on in Cambodia's traumatized society, poisoned politics, governmental misrule and pitiful piles of bleached-white skulls. When Pol Pot died last week, alone in a small, thatched hut, his passing left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Butcher Of Cambodia | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...What's in a name?" The age-old question has fresh significance for a journal of gay and lesbian ideas called The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Magazine Tests Harvard's New Copyright Policy | 4/24/1998 | See Source »

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