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Yahoo's new digital-music site offers unlimited downloads from its library of 1 million-- plus songs for a flat fee of $7 a month or $60 a year. Tunes will transfer to portable players from iRiver, Creative Labs and others (but not to iPods...
...economically deprived school districts for youngsters who have learning problems? It now devotes $3.2 billion to programs serving 4.8 million low-achieving public school pupils. Secretary of Education William Bennett believes that some of the money should be spent on federal vouchers that would enable students to apply for transfer to alternative, and presumably better, schools. Last week Bennett submitted to Congress a bill that would provide students with such vouchers, worth an average of $600, which could be applied toward remedial instruction or tuition at another school--public, private or parochial. Said Bennett: "It would promote a healthy rivalry...
...voucher idea is nothing if not controversial. Miriam Rosenberg, government-relations specialist for the National Parent Teacher Association, called Bennett's proposal an "inappropriate and possibly unconstitutional transfer of public tax dollars to private and especially private religious schools." Others argued that $600 would not go far toward private day-school tuition or even the pupil cost in an upscale suburban school (typically...
...growing defense budget and protecting the safety-net social programs, says Domenici, "there will have to be some sort of tax enhancement." Possible candidates are a tax on oil imports, which would raise $25 billion over three years at the rate of $5 per bbl., and a business transfer tax, a levy similar to Europe's value-added tax, which would yield $84 billion a year at the rate...
Even critics of Medicare policies concede that it often makes sense to release patients from $300-a-day hospitals and transfer them to $65-a-day nursing homes or even less costly home care. But, says Dr. T. Reginald Harris, president of the American Society of Internal Medicine, these cheaper alternatives are not always available, and Medicare skimps on paying for them. Meanwhile, he notes, hospitals say, "It's not our problem...