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Some forensic pathologists suggest giving medical examiners civil service status or allying them more closely with medical schools, where independence is a tradition. Many advocate setting up regional forensic centers to provide expert consultants to local communities. Almost all emphasize that higher salaries are needed to lure bright young doctors into the field. Most M.E.s make less than $100,000 a year, while a pathologist who runs a hospital's laboratory services can pull in more than double that amount...
...rate would return to 28% with indexing for inflation. Investors would be sure to roll over their assets and produce a quick windfall for the Treasury -- at the expense of future tax collections. House Speaker Tom Foley calls it "robbing from future generations." Lawrence Summers, a Harvard public-finance expert, calls it "probably the worst tax proposal in the history of the Republic...
Whyte is noticeably quiet about the crime, dirt, awful schools and general corrosiveness that drive people out of cities in the first place. One urban expert says Whyte romanticizes a city that no longer exists -- "the city E.B. White wrote about in 1946, where you could leave the Stork Club at 2 a.m. and take the subway home." Whyte concedes that he has no plan to solve the litany of urban problems, but he denies he is a dreamer. "I am an anti-Utopian," he says. "We've got a lot of problems in New York that are not going...
...Soviet missiles. More than two dozen Americans stationed permanently in Votkinsk, west of the Urals, keep tabs on a plant that once built SS-20 missiles, and a similar number of Soviets in Magna, Utah, monitor what was formerly a Pershing engine plant. Michael Krepon, a Washington arms-control expert, talks of "a degree of verification unthinkable just a couple of years...
...United States is unwilling to remedy its racial and ethnic problems and actively embrace civil rights said a Boston Civil Rights expert yesterday at a lunch-time discussion sponsored by the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics...