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Harvard-educated neuroscientist Amy Bishop, accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama on Friday, was also a suspect in an attempted bombing of a Harvard Medical School professor...
...Bishop and her husband had been questioned by authorities investigating the delivery of a package containing two unexploded pipe bombs to Paul Rosenberg, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and doctor at Children’s Hospital Boston. Bishop’s concern that she would not receive a positive evaluation on her doctoral work from Rosenberg and previous violent behavior made her a suspect at the time, according to the Boston Globe...
...While Bishop and her husband James Anderson were never charged with attempting to bomb Rosenberg, the incident is one of two recent revelations that tie Bishop to a criminal investigation...
...Even so, Bishop says, the plan makes sense. According to estimates from the Economic Policy Institute, which Bishop worked with to produce his own job-creation tax-credit program, a 15% tax break for new hires, which is more generous than what Obama is proposing, would lead companies to add 2.8 million more workers this year than they would have without the tax break. The EPI says that plan could cost as much as $37 billion, or about $26,000 per stimulated hire...
...Bishop says this means a job-creation tax credit, judged in the context of billion-dollar stimulus plans, is pretty cheap for its results. He says other stimulus ideas can cost as much as $200,000 per job created. A recent study from the Congressional Budget Office found that a job-creation tax credit could be a more efficient way of stimulating the economy than either individual tax credits or infrastructure spending...