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...searching for remedies for the NIMBY syndrome, some innovative approaches have been tried. The New Jersey Supreme Court broke new ground in 1975 when it ruled that wealthy suburbs must share the burden of low-cost housing. In Arkansas officials have proposed that any county that refuses a prison should pay the state to house its criminals. In each instance, the principle of community responsibility for the greater good was paramount. "One of the few things we deprive our middle class of is the opportunity to serve," says Ethicist Gaylin. Whether the problem is a waste dump, a shelter...
...execution. Jobs' original idea was to use mass-production techniques to make the power of $50,000 computer "workstations" like those used by top engineers and industrial designers available to anyone for the cost of a personal computer -- from $2,000 to $5,000. He spoke movingly of creating low-cost "learning environments," in which university students, using computer simulations, would have access to the world's most advanced technologies. "You'd offer a physics student a personal linear accelerator or a ride on a train going the speed of light," he told a group of educators...
...hardly unique. Over the long Memorial Day weekend, many of America's 54 million anglers headed for the nearest river, lake or bay armed with depth finders, pH meters and computerized tackle. The history of fishing is a history of equipment, but with the advent of low-cost electronics, one of the world's most popular participatory sports has rapidly become its most high tech. "Fishermen are looking for every advantage they can get," says Robert Sullivan, a salesman at Larry Smith Electronics in Riviera Beach, Fla. "They are saying, 'Give us more, more, more...
...Forty million Americans have not a dime of health insurance," Michael Dukakis reminds audiences on the campaign trail, as he argues that the Federal Government should provide low-cost coverage. Last week the Governor could point to his home state as an example of how that can be done: the Massachusetts legislature passed the nation's first comprehensive health- insurance bill. By 1992 coverage will extend to everyone in the state, including the unemployed...
...building up federal housing subsidies dismantled by the Reagan Administration. Specifically, the group recommended adding almost $3.4 billion to the $13.8 billion budgeted for federally subsidized housing in fiscal 1988. Some $3 billion would be funneled to states to finance a new Housing Opportunity Program to build or rehabilitate low-cost housing; states would be required to match half that outlay, for a total of $4.5 billion. An additional $380 million would go to double the number of housing units for which the Department of Housing and Urban Development pays part of the rent for needy tenants...