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...heat's chief victims were the poor and the old. The median age of those who died in Kansas City was 73 (72% were 65 or over). The death rate in low-income areas was 9.6 per 10,000, vs. .09 in wealthy districts. Apparent reason: the well-off elderly were not only healthier to begin with, but better supplied with fans, air conditioners and other aids to keep body temperatures below the 105° F (40.6° C) or so that helps trigger heat stroke...
...mile stretch of lakefront along Chicago's suburban North Shore is one of the richest areas in the nation, with family income of $60,000 a median. Teen-agers there grow up in well-manicured neighborhoods, attend first-rate colleges and flaunt the trappings of affluence; many drive around in Mercedes. Yet for such youths, there is trouble in paradise. Among local therapists, the area is known as "the suicide belt." In a 17-month period ending last summer, 28 teen-agers took their own lives. Eighteen died by gunshot, eight by hanging and two by lying down...
Well, I've got to run. This working girl is going to skip lunch and use the hour to make love to Roger. Some 55% of us say we indulge in such sex breaks. I love that survey. I guess you could say I'm that median Cosmopolitan girl...
...agree with Kahn's prediction that a tax cut is "inevitable," no one could agree on what size it should be or what form it should take. Reagan's plan called for a straight 10% reduction on individual returns. For a family of four with a median annual income of about $20,000, this would mean a tax saving of $227 next year. Reagan also called for faster tax write-offs for business investments, allowing a company to deduct from its taxes the cost of new buildings over ten years, new equipment over five years, and new light...
...decade of the 1970s, blacks gained on whites in only one broad area: education. As of 1978, the median for blacks had reached 11.9 years of schooling; it was 12.5 for whites. Yet even these statistics are misleading in one important sense: the quality of public schooling that the blacks are getting in most major U.S. cities has sharply declined. Says Bernard C. Watson, a black vice president of Temple University in Philadelphia: "The education too many children receive in these classrooms is nothing short of a national scandal, an absolute disgrace...