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Christy Rade, who will be entering the ninth grade in West Des Moines, Iowa, is fairly typical. Before she was diagnosed with ADD in the third grade, Christy's teacher described her to her parents as a "dizzy blond and a space cadet." "Teachers used to get fed up with me," recalls Christy, who now takes Ritalin and gets some extra support from her teachers. "Everyone thought I was purposely not paying attention." According to her mother Julie Doy, people at Christy's school were familiar with hyperactivity but not ADD. "She didn't have behavior problems...
Many other radiation research violations have recently come to light. At the Wrentham State School in Massachusetts in 1961, a Harvard Medical School assistant professor and a Harvard researcher fed "mentally defective" children aged one to 11 small doses of radioactive iodine, according to the Fernald report...
...consensus is that it's around 6% -- about where we are now. But Reich argues that retraining can reduce that natural rate of unemployment by helping workers move from areas of labor surplus to areas of labor shortage. It puts off the moment in any boom when the Fed has to blow the whistle...
...expenditures of taxpayers' dollars. For many citizens, it's just sinking in, for example, that putting welfare recipients to work will cost more than simply sending them checks as we do now. Maybe this is worth it, maybe not. But there is no contradiction between such efforts and the Fed's job of slamming the brakes if unemployment gets too low. The idea is to lower the definition...
Nevertheless, it must be frustrating for any President to watch the Fed playing party pooper. That's why Clinton deserves great credit for supporting Alan Greenspan -- just as Ronald Reagan's best economic deed was standing by without protest as Fed chairman Paul Volcker wrung inflation out of the economy in the early 1980s. Clinton's fortitude is even more admirable, since Greenspan is trying to avoid a future bout of inflation, not cure a current one. And according to Woodward, Clinton's political advisers all think Greenspan is the devil incarnate, so Clinton gets extra points for resisting them...