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Consulting for government agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service, the Census Bureau, the Department of Labor and the National Institute of Health. Rubin is also researching nonresponse surveys and causual inference...
...there are about 368,000 people voting age in the area to the 1900 census. While liberals hold away in the rural suburbs in the district's left-leaning mid-section, President Reagan's appeal to the blue-collar, Catholic vote--which is centered in Lowell and Lawrence--worked here in 1980. Reagan carried the district 44 to 40 percent over former President Jimmy Carter, a margin of 11,000 votes and two percentage points better than the state total...
...battled police in their protests against archaeological digs outside Jerusalem's Old City. When a university professor inadvertently drove through one of their neighborhoods in Jerusalem on a Friday night, thus violating the Sabbath, his windshields were smashed and he suffered a severe concussion. Another group ransacked a Jerusalem census office claiming it was against God's will to be counted...
None of which should be any surprise; just about every aspect of the immigration question is enveloped in emotional dispute, down to the basic numbers. Estimates of how many illegal aliens are already in the U.S. run as high as 15 million; the Census Bureau's guess is somewhere between 3.5 million and 6 million. But there is no question that the tide is rising...
...seemingly legitimate documents shielding these shipments make the illegal trade difficult to detect. But the World Wildlife Fund has recently helped the U.S. Government computerize international export-import records and has begun matching them with census counts of endangered species. Stopping the illegal trade in the future may depend not only on catching poachers in the act but on following the document trail they leave behind. Says the fund's Linda McMahan: "It's not just a cloak-and-dagger operation any more. It's becoming a complex paper chase...