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...forum on cultural diversity, moderated by Jason Clay, co-founder and director of studies on Cultural Survival, researchers spoke on anthropological studies of disease, health care, and rapid loss of indigenous language, music and tradition...
SOCIAL SECURITY SUBSIDIES Many retirees believe they are only getting back what they've paid in Social Security taxes over their working lives. The truth is that because of the rapid rise in benefits in recent decades, the average person retiring today at 65 gets back all the money he paid into Social Security, with interest, by age 71. "After that," says Paul Hewitt, a budget expert at the National Taxpayers Union, "you're on welfare." And the average retiree lives until 81. These heavily subsidized benefits are financed by regressive Social Security taxes -- payroll deductions apply only...
...squeezed into a single, all-purpose package -- a kind of pocket- size portable office -- that would let brokers buy and sell from a restaurant table, lawyers check precedents from a courtroom, doctors check lab results from a golf course, and salesmen close deals from a trout stream? Given the rapid advances in semiconductors, cellular communications and battery-power management, this dream is almost within reach...
...Rapid economic growth and opening its markets to the outside world have taken a sad but predictable toll on the country's traditional values. Police estimate there are 50,000 prostitutes in Ho Chi Minh City, more than in 1975. Drug addiction is a growing problem. That in turn is boosting petty crime. Dozens of pickpockets, beggars and touts prey on unsuspecting foreigners in the square in front of city hall, within the gaze of an avuncular statue of Ho Chi Minh. Says a local official: "This is the price we must pay in order to leave our impoverished state...
DURING THE CAMPAIGN, THEY WERE AT THE HEART OF WHAT was known as the War Room, the pressurized chamber in Little Rock famed for formulating rapid political parries and thrusts: James Carville, the raging Cajun strategist; his partner, Paul Begala; media maven Mandy Grunwald; and pollster Stanley Greenberg. When they failed to follow Clinton to the White House, their laser-sharp populist instincts were soon missed. Now Clinton has called them back, though just how much he relies on them remains a question. In room 160 of the Executive Office Building, aides have re-created the War Room. Around...