NCPA - Daily Policy Digest - Friday, April 19, 2002

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Daily Policy Digest
Friday, April 19, 2002

	Drug companies spend $30 billion annually on research and the average cost of developing a new drug is $800 million....
NEW YORK TIME

	Immigrant entrepreneurs export knowledge, capital and entrepreneurial culture to their native countries....
PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA/NEW YORK TIMES

	Claim that excessive drinking kills 1,400 college students annually is junk science, say critics....
CATO INSTITUTE/WASHINGTON TIMES

	Market economies promote sharing and trust, say researchers, more so than traditional societies....
SCIENCE NEWS

	Obesity adds $395 annually per person to health care spending, say researchers -- more than smoking drinking or growing older....
HEALTH AFFAIRS

	Juvenile violent crime has declined 38 percent since 1994, say researchers....
URBAN INSTITUTE/WASHINGTON TIMES/WASHINGTON POST

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