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No issue is so certain to rile the normally subdued Swedes as taxes. With reason. The average Swedish worker must turn over about half of his earnings to finance the cradle-to-grave welfare society, and for the self-employed the tax bite frequently exceeds 85% of income. Historian Sven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweden: Falldin's Fall | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

Judge Hungate's ruling is not expected for several weeks. Meanwhile, Justice Department experts in Washington note that compulsory busing between St. Louis and its suburbs would also be expensive. There is now no precise dollar limit on the tuition bonus. The St. Louis plan is very much an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big Carrot | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

The Horkenbachs of Royal Oak, Mich., agree. "We hated it," says Renette, 31, of her family's seven-month, $7,000 experiment in Sunbelt living. In Houston, her firefighter husband "had to pay extra to get us on his health insurance," their utility bills were "exorbitant," and Yankees were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southward Ho for Jobs | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

Included in these stories are some exceptionally rare finds: an account of captivity and a subsequent forced marriage to an Indian, and a description of the Victoria settlement--an abortive experiment by a band of pretentious Britons who brought their teacups and lace to Anglicize the West. Unfortunately, the memoirs...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Years of Heaven | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...early as next year, during the shuttle's scheduled fourth flight, it will carry an experimental military payload in its cargo bay: infra-red and laser tracking devices designed to guide future shuttle pilots to orbiting satellites for repair or retrieval-or perhaps for destruction. The experiment's disclosure has already brought a pained outcry from the Kremlin. Though the Soviets are actively experimenting with military lasers, they charge that the U.S. is planning to introduce laser weaponry into space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Battlestar Columbia? | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

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