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...plan is much more than a welfare scheme. It aims at a vast redistribution of income, not just from the rich to the poor, but also from the upper-middle class to the lower-middle class...
Unlike Educational Iconoclast Ivan Illich, Holt does not want schools abolished entirely, but he thinks they should be de-emphasized. Last year education costs totaled about $80 billion; yet to give all young people the quality of schooling now available only to the upper 20%-which is what is meant by talk of "equal educational opportunity" -might cost three times as much, almost one-quarter of the gross national product. "We now spend 8% and there are many signs that this is about the limit of what people are willing to pay," Holt writes. "Yet this...
...build a supersonic jet transport last year. Congress was influenced by some persuasive arguments against the plane: it would be extremely costly (an estimated $1.5 billion for development of two prototypes), create window-shattering sonic booms all across the countryside, and possibly even leave enough carbon dioxide in the upper layers of the atmosphere to change the earth's climate. Now Robert T. Jones of NASA'S Ames Research Center, near San Francisco, has suggested a radical new SST design that he claims would overcome most of these objections. It would also be one of the oddest looking...
...tortured to death a few years ago. In Italy, it is not so much the quantity as the quality of occultism that has changed. Long a part of Italy's superstitious southern peasant culture, occultism has moved north to the industrialists, the doctors and lawyers of the affluent upper class...
...complained that it had to get 67 different licenses and permits before it could start the Keowee-Toxaway project in South Carolina. Even when the bureaucracy seems willing to provide licenses, environmentalist groups have started suing to stop plant construction, particularly in densely settled areas of the Northeast, the upper Middle West and Southern California. The Sierra Club's Richard Lahn calls it "guerrilla theater...