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Education is vital in a modern economy. Industries relying on cheap, unskilled labor are rapidly leaving this country for Asia and South America. The United States' economic future lies in the high technology and information industries which demand a skilled and literate population. Education, or human capital, will increasingly become the key to our nation's economic competitiveness...
...atmosphere of steady or declining numbers of earned doctorates and of increasing demand for the best people, we must take steps to insure that our recruitment policies and practices are effective," Spence wrote in last spring's report. "More appointments will be required each year to maintain our strength...
This policy, aimed at stopping drugs from entering the country, can only dent the drug problem. Even if a substantial amount of cocaine were prevented from crossing U.S. borders (which experts consider an almost impossible task), American-made drugs such as PCP could shift to meet the demand...
Bush is unwilling to attack the demand side of the drug equation, cleaning up the inner city, because it entails renouncing many of his conservative principles. He would have to advocate ending residential segregation, investing much more in inner-city schools and expanding substantive economic opportunities for ghetto residents. While he may be slowly breaking out of the Reagan mold, he still has a very long...
Unfortunately, the decline in ivory trade in Japan and elsewhere may not reflect a drop in demand so much as the decimation of adult elephants. As mature elephants are killed, it becomes harder to satisfy the world's appetite for ivory. Stephen Cobb, who leads an ivory study for the AECCG, says the reduction in trade "is a clear sign of the collapse of exploitable elephant populations...