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Most industrialized nations have evolved legal codes to protect their citizens from such invasions of privacy. The basic principle is laid out in the U.S. Privacy Act of 1974, which at least in theory restricts the government from taking computer data gathered for one purpose (say, the census) and using them for another purpose (say, tax collection). Another guiding precept is that unique numerical identifiers -- like Thailand's ID numbers -- should be avoided because they make dossier preparation temptingly easy. That is why the American Civil Liberties Union gets so upset when a Social Security number is used beyond...
Evidence of bureaucratic bulge is larded throughout the entrenched establishment that serves the five boroughs. City comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman notes that 50,000 jobs were added in the '80s, "when times were flusher." According to the Census Bureau, the city has 575 employees per 10,000 residents, in contrast to 344 in San Francisco and 146 in Chicago. (Only Washington, with 788, is more bloated...
...census figures show, in fact, that suburbanites will soon be the American majority, up from being about a third of the population back in 1950. Yet as America's cities and villages have dissolved into vast suburban nebulas, no one seems entirely happy with the result. From Riverside County in southern California to Fairfax County in northern Virginia, new American suburbs tend to be disappointments, if not outright failures. Traffic jams are regularly as bad as anything in the fearsome, loathsome city. Waste problems can be worse. Boundaries are ill defined; town centers are nonexistent. Too often, there...
Then there's the last-ditch option: going back home to Mom and Dad. This generation hasn't been afraid to do so -- Census reports show 75% of males 18 to 24 years old still live at home. But people mostly want to be on their own around that age. "All year long I swore that whatever I did, I wouldn't be living at home," says Natasha Pustilnik, 21, a Vassar College senior. Guess where she'll be this summer. "It's enormously disappointing," says the jobless Russian major...
...Texas at least, Davilia said, the political situation for the Hispanic community seems hopeful. In the 1990 census, the state gained three congressional seats--all of which she said could be won by minorities...