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John L. Larew's article on social security is persuasive. The wealthy benefit, since the benefits go to everyone, so the poor get less. In all, there is an inter-generational transfer of wealth...
Those who come later pay higher rents because of the smaller housing stock available. In effect, there is an inter-temporal transfer of wealth. The landlord, not the government, becomes the source of the subsidy, so he or she has less incentive to increase the housing stock...
...precise toll exacted by the drug lords is hard to certify: Colombian journalists are also targeted by leftist guerrillas and rightist death squads. In a new report titled "Murder: The Ultimate Censorship," the Inter American Press Association notes, "Nowhere is this struggle between the forces of darkness and the forces of light more clearly drawn than in Colombia." Some of the country's ablest reporters have fled into exile or gone into hiding, their voices effectively silenced. Others admit their news judgment has been affected...
This interaction between Harvard and government authorities should continue, but on a larger scale. In an interview yesterday, Kleiman suggested the creation of a drug center along the lines of Harvard's inter-disciplinary effort to combine research and public policy questions stemming from the spread of the AIDS virus...
...Mendes' most important achievements was to help convince the Inter- American Development Bank to suspend funding temporarily for further paving of BR-364 between Rondonia and Acre. But the Brazilian government is again seeking the $350 million needed to complete the road all the way to Peru, a prospect that alarms environmentalists. "One lesson we have learned in the Amazon is that when you improve a road, you unleash uncontrolled development on the rain forest," says John Browder, a specialist on Rondonia's deforestation from Virginia Polytechnic Institute...