NCPA - Daily Policy Digest - Thursday, July 25, 2002

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Daily Policy Digest
Thursday, July 25, 2002

	Forty percent of couples that cohabitate before marriage divorce as opposed to 30 percent of those who did not cohabitate....
NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS/WASHINGTON TIMES

	Until April, clients of Arthur Andersen fared 5 percentage points worse than others, but now the differences are gone...
NEW YORK TIMES

	Insiders profit from medical studies before release, say observers....
WALL STREET JOURNAL

	People invest in the familiar, say economists, rather than diversify....
ECONOMIC INTUITION/REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES

	Regulations cost manufacturers $1,700 per employee and are equivalent to 1.6 percent of gross receipts....
MERCATUS CENTER (GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY)

	Over 40 percent of antibiotics prescribed by doctors are useless as most patients have viral infections, against which antibiotics don't work....
NEW YORK TIMES

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