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TAXES. New York's Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wants to roll back Social Security taxes that have become burdensome for most middle- and lower-income wage earners. Bush opposes any cut in Social Security taxes as too expensive and claims that it would threaten future retirement benefits. At the same time, the President will continue to press for cuts in capital-gains taxes...
...Republican Orrin Hatch and Oklahoma Democrat David Boren have proposed a Senate bill that would protect employees from abuses and employers from lawsuits by establishing minimum federal standards for workplace testing. Said former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who supports the bill: "When the privacy rights of an individual threaten the health and the safety of others, then those rights...
...election, her judgment has often been carried away by the vengeful currents of Pakistani politics, especially the fury of those in her People's Party who were cruelly oppressed under Zia. Among the party's first acts after coming to power was a campaign to bribe and threaten legislators in Punjab, an opposition-ruled province where more than 60% of Pakistanis live. The goal: to overthrow Bhutto's nemesis, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Punjab's chief minister, a wealthy industrialist and a crony of Zia's. Privately, Bhutto's confidants justified the failed assault by arguing that Nawaz Sharif won only...
...vice president of the American Medical Association: "It's distorted all the traditional principles for drug approval. Penicillin couldn't get through that fast." While some modification of FDA regulations may have been necessary, many people believe that the changes being made at the FDA to accommodate AIDS activists threaten a system that has protected the public from quack cures, like the apricot pits once touted for cancer sufferers...
...Sayed of Texas A& M University discovered two years ago at Palmer Station, a U.S. base on the Antarctic Peninsula, that high levels of ultraviolet damage the chlorophyll pigment vital for photosynthesis in phytoplankton, slowing the marine plants' growth rate by as much as 30%. That, in turn, could threaten krill, shrimplike creatures that feed on phytoplankton and are a key link in Antarctica's food chain. Says El-Sayed: "Fish, whales, penguins and winged birds all depend very heavily on krill. If anything happened to the krill population, the whole system would collapse...