Word: experts
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Xiaomeng Gao, an expert on agricultural development, was pronounced dead Thursday morning after being pulled from the Charles River by Cambridge firefighters...
...have to do it yourself. That's why TIME uses a powerful computer program that chief of cartography Paul Pugliese and associate graphics director Joe Lertola helped develop to produce many of the eye-catching maps that grace our pages each week. Pugliese and Lertola teamed up with software expert Daniel Strebe to create Geocart, which can instantly project everything from a panoramic view of the globe to a detailed look at an individual state. When used with another program called Adobe Dimensions, Geocart can swiftly produce 3-D-like images of any part of the earth's surface...
...Martin Guerre. The Vanishing, the tale of a young Seattle woman who goes away for a beer and never comes home, is a remake of a 1988 Dutch thriller. The original movies had their admirers, but neither property could be sold as is to the U.S. mass audience. Some expert renovation was in order. Cunning Hollywood script doctors had to approach the European originals not as finished portraits but as sketches in need of coherence, heart, pizazz. It's what rewriters do: refashion a boutique item so it will jump off the shelves at the mall...
...many ways the current system allows the wealthy to claim more than their fair share of benefits. Robert Shapiro, a budget expert at the Progressive Policy Institute and a campaign adviser to Clinton, points out that the most affluent 4% of American families, who earn more than $100,000 a year, collect more than 8% of all federal subsidies for retirement -- equal to about $30 billion a year. According to Shapiro, Clinton could address this imbalance by stating that "those who can take care of their own health care and retirement are obliged not to claim a disproportionate share...
...Security taxes over their working lives. The truth is that because of the rapid rise in benefits in recent decades, the average person retiring today at 65 gets back all the money he paid into Social Security, with interest, by age 71. "After that," says Paul Hewitt, a budget expert at the National Taxpayers Union, "you're on welfare." And the average retiree lives until 81. These heavily subsidized benefits are financed by regressive Social Security taxes -- payroll deductions apply only to the first $57,600 of income this year -- that have more than doubled over the past decade...