the year 2000 [see WQ, New Year's 1983, p. 401. He pins part of the blame on industrial robots, whose numbers he expects to grow from a few thousand today to more than 200,000 1990. But other studies peg the total robot population in 1990 at a maximum of 150,000-and a low of 70,000.
Ehrbar adds that the long decline of America's "smokestack" indus- tries now appears to have bottomed out. Between 1950 and 1978, their share of all U.S. employment fell from 34 percent to 24 percent. But...
Bradley R. Schil-
ecessary ler, in The Public Interest (Summer 1983), 10 East 53rd St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
Newspaper "help wanted" ads always seem to say, "Experience re-quired." How does the first-time job-seeker get such experience? Mostly in small companies, which in effect subsidize job training for America's big corporations.
Hiring and breaking in a new worker can cost up to $10,000, accord- ing to Schiller, an American University economist. Since most compa- nies,...
Daphne
Spain and Suzanne M. Bianchi, in Ameri-For Women can Demographics (May 1983), P.O. Box
68, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850.
One of America's continuing social dramas, with mixed repercussions on the family, the economy, and welfare policy, is the "revolution in women's lives," write demographers Spain and Bianchi, analyzing fresh U.S. Census data.
marrying later, studying and working longer, today's women have begun to "establish independence from their families." They have fewer...
Daphne
Spain and Suzanne M. Bianchi, in Ameri-For Women can Demographics (May 1983), P.O. Box
68, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850.
One of America's continuing social dramas, with mixed repercussions on the family, the economy, and welfare policy, is the "revolution in women's lives," write demographers Spain and Bianchi, analyzing fresh U.S. Census data.
marrying later, studying and working longer, today's women have begun to "establish independence from their families." They have fewer...
health insurance, the President hopes to get Washington out of the busi- ness of directly providing services, and thus to cut administrative costs. Some liberals also like vouchers because they may ultimately transfer more income to the poor and would spare recipients the indignity of standing in line for "handouts."
Experience shows vouchers can work. The $1 1.2 billion food-stamp program helps feed some 22 million Americans. Intermittently since 1944, the federal government, in effect,...
Gary Roth- Short Circuit in bart and David Stoller, in Channels of
The 'Wired City' Communications (July-August 1983), Box 2001, Mahopac, N.Y. 10036.
A few years ago, cable television seemed poised to take over America's living rooms, providing everything from movies to home banking to home security systems. But today, many big cities, including Chicago, Washington, and most of Philadelphia, still haven't joined the "wired society" envisioned cable's champions. What happened?
Cable...
Michael Jay Robinson, in Pub-lie Opinion (Feb.-March 1983), American Unbiased News Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Re- search, 1150 17th St. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20036.
America's top journalists are more liberal-leaning in their personal opinions than is the man on the street, but that does not necessarily mean that their reporting is ideologically slanted.
So argues Robinson, a George Washington University political scien- tist. He notes that conservatives have used opinion surveys...
An-
About Sullivan ? thony Lewis, in the Columbia Law Review (April 1983), 435 West 116th St., New York, N.Y. 10027.
Journalists long regarded the U.S. Supreme Court's 1964 New York
Times v. Sullivan decision, which sharply restricted the right of "public
figures" to sue for libel, as a landmark victory for press freedom.
But the decision has proved increasingly costly to the press, says Lewis, a Times columnist and specialist on the law.
To sue for libel, the Court said, a "public...
juries, but 75 percent of those decided judges. Such odds scare off journalists contemplating controversial stories about government.
Lewis suggests a remedy. "Public figures," whether officials or pri- vate citizens, could sue for libel only when a story did not concern gov- ernment business. Otherwise, libel suits would be barred. Public officials' performance, in particular, should be fair game for press criti- cism, even inaccurate criticism. "Their recourse is not litigation...
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ble diseases such as breast cancer. During the early 1860s, Silas Weir Mitchell experimented with neurosurgery to relieve chronic pain.
The growth of sentimentalism in Victorian America's literature, art, and religion was partly behind the change. The Philadelphia Bulletin echoed popular opinion when it editorialized in 1860 that the man most fit "to officiate at the couch of sickness . . .is kind and gentle."
And as time went on...