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...present rent control law ends this year, so the state legislature must decide on its extension, amendment or repeal in the coming months. To aid in this decision, the Massachusetts Legislature commissioned the Harbridge House report. To the same end, the Greater Boston Real Estate Board funded George Sternlieb's investigation...
...vague and its use of statistics undisciplined. At times the report relies on irrelevant figures to back up its arguments and, even worse, uses statistics from biased sources without qualification. Finally, the report entirely sloughs over crucial issues such as rent control's effect on housing maintenance. The Sternlieb report, Sternlieb's investigation is incomplete and contains important informational gaps...
What is most dismaying about the city is that it may well reflect the future of much of urban America. "Newark is the urban prototype," says Rutgers Urbanologist George Sternlieb. "A few years from now it will be Buffalo, Cleveland, St. Louis and Akron, and then it will be every older city in the country." Thirteen percent of Newark's citizens are on welfare. The city led the nation in serious crimes per 100,000 of population in 1967, and violent crime rose 41% in the first nine months of 1968. Double locks are becoming standard in most dwellings...
Only recently have doctors been able to slow down Wilson's disease with drugs to leach copper out of the body, and a low-copper diet (no liver, mushrooms, nuts or oysters). How much better it would be, say Drs. Irmin Sternlieb and I. Herbert Scheinberg of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, to spot the inherited defect before illness has time to develop...
Though it will take many years to determine whether the disease can be completely prevented, Drs. Sternlieb and Scheinberg have encouraging evidence from several patients. One boy from a Wilson's disease family was diagnosed as having the defect when he was only ten months old. He has been treated for eight years and is still well; his older sister, whose case was not diagnosed in time, became severely ill by age twelve...