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...treatment they sought would need approval by a finicky Congress. But in August, Moscow began levying its now celebrated "education tax" on would-be emigrants. It is a tough measure; a younger Russian who has benefited from training at a state university might be required to pay an exit fee of as much as $30,000. The tax is not discriminatory per se, because-the fact is often overlooked-it applies to all Russians. But it falls heavily on Jews, a large percentage of whom are university-trained...
Built right into each apartment complex are clinics, schools, grocery shops and usually some light industry. Like most people in Shanghai, the Chengs enjoy telephone service of a sort. On incoming calls a messenger from the telephone service center appears at the Chengs' door. The messenger fee is 1½?. Then, by paying another 2? at the service center a couple of blocks away, Cheng can connect with the calling party, provided the caller has stayed put at his own telephone center...
...many as 400,000 tests were administered last year by commercial polygraph firms for an average fee of $25 to $50. The number of professional polygraphers has increased 50% in the past five years, to 1,200. Many operate one-machine offices, but a few companies, like Dale System Inc. of Garden City, N.Y., and Management Safeguards Inc. of Manhattan, have offices in a number of cities. Lincoln M. Zohn Inc. of Manhattan, probably the largest U.S. lie-detector firm, recorded sales of $1.5 million last year, double those of 1969, and has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
...have no outside income, if parental and spouse income are not incorporated into calculations of need, and if additional teaching fifths are not subtracted from need, then about the only monetary requirements for three to eight years at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is the application fee...
...rick claims to have an underground network of deprogrammers throughout the U.S. They have recovered, he says, some 600 youths from 61 different fundamentalist, pentecostal or Oriental religious sects during the past two years. "Team members" of the underground network say that Patrick charges no fee for his services except what is necessary for travel and other expenses. He also claims that the child's parents must assume the basic responsibility for any abduction. The abductions are justified, Patrick feels, because the youths have already been "psychologically kidnaped" by offbeat religious sects. Parents, he says, are only "rescuing" them...