NCPA - Daily Policy Digest - Friday, March 15, 2002

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Daily Policy Digest
Friday, March 15, 2002

	U.S. dependency on Middle East oil is down, thanks to increased production from Russia, Mexico, Canada and Venezuela....
WALL STREET JOURNAL

	Individual medical malpractice is usually corrected by the system of checks and rechecks, experts believe....
WALL STREET JOURNAL

	Postal Service guilty of "unacceptable" deficiencies, report says, but still wants a rate increase....
WALL STREET JOURNAL

	Babies conceived in vitro have twice the rate of birth defects of children conceived naturally, say researchers....
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE/BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL

	Mammography hasn't reduced breast cancer mortality, which is the same as in 1930; but preventive measures may work, say physicians....
AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH

	Liberalizing financial markets spurs economic growth by an average of one percent over a five-year period....
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

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