NCPA - Daily Policy Digest - Thursday, May 29, 2003

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS
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Daily Policy Digest
Thursday, May 29, 2003

	The Gephardt health plan is the wrong solution to the problem of the uninsured in America, say experts....
NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

	Exxon Mobil supporters outnumber enviros pushing global warming and renewable energy resolutions....
NCPA/DALLAS MORNING NEWS/NEW YORK TIMES

	Students in high schools with condom programs were more likely to use them, according to a new study....
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH/ASSOCIATED PRESS/NEW YORK TIMES

	Complying with new accounting rules will cost $13-$15 billion, and critics say Sarbanes-Oxley criminalizes risk taking....
FORBES

	Consumer spending is growing at half the rate of the 1990s, says Stephen Roach....
USA TODAY

	About one-quarter of men died in battle in primitive societies, according to Steven A. LeBlanc....
ST. MARTIN'S PRESS/WALL STREET JOURNAL

	Biometric identification raises privacy concerns and security threats, say analysts....
AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL

	Social and environmental advocacy groups are pushing shareholder resolutions at corporate annual meetings that would require companies to reduce emissions and pursue renewable energy, including Exxon Mobil. Despite these organized efforts, less than a quarter of shareholders have favored such stances. A new NCPA Brief Analysis by H. Sterling Burnett supports their skepticism about such policies (For "Energy Bill Mistakes: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba440/.)

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