NCPA - Daily Policy Digest - Thursday, May 9, 2002

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Daily Policy Digest
Thursday, May 9, 2002

	The average tariff on farm products is 62 percent worldwide -- compared to 4 percent for other goods -- and $170 billion more in subsidies may push that higher....
TRUTH ABOUT TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY/WALL STREET JOURNAL

	Voucher students outscore public school peers by up to 6 percentile points, a new study finds....
BROOKINGS INSTITUTION/WASHINGTON TIMES

	About 74 percent of U.S. soy crop will be genetically engineered this year, as farmers adopt biotechnology....
HUDSON INSTITUTE/WASHINGTON TIMES

	The three worst public shootings in the past year occurred in Europe, which has everything American gun-control proponents favor....
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE/USA TODAY

	Options topped $100 billion in 2000, and should be revealed in financial reports....
NEW YORK TIMES

	Invention could shave billions off nuclear waste disposal costs, say observers....
BUSINESS WEEK

	Drug researchers are moving to the U.S., say observers, because they are welcome here....
WALL STREET JOURNAL

	New Zealand must increase its one percent economic growth to afford better housing, health care and education....
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