Shanghai housing reform. Program a burden on foreign investors

This document contains a summary of the Housing Reform Program created in Shanghai, China, in 1991, which requires monthly contributions of all employers and employees in Shanghai to a "Collective Reserve Fund." The program also applies to foreign investment enterprises and must be followed by all enterprises, regardless of any previous housing benefits that an enterprise may be providing its employees. Employers must deduct 5% from each employee's salary (with a minimum) monthly and must match that amount. The total is paid into an account in the employer's name with the People's Construction Bank of China. The total amount collected and matched for an employee is considered the property of the employee, but the account is administered by the employer as a collective trust account. Each employee's balance may be withdrawn upon retirement, leaving the area, or purchasing a home and leaving state-owned housing. Foreign investment enterprises contribute a reduced amount in recognition of the fact that they pay salaries that are higher than those of state enterprises. The Housing Reform Program also requires employers to contribute to doubled rent subsidies for public housing, requires workers to purchase housing construction bonds in order to be eligible for newly allocated public housing, calles for housing to be sold at favorable prices, and creates a system whereby mortgages can be obtained from the Collective Reserve Fund.     

Last rights. In sickness and in health, more people are taking life's biggest decision away from doctors and into their own hands

When dying is all that awaits them, more and more people are choosing certain death now rather than uncertain life on medical support systems. But the decision seldom comes easy, as a Newsweek reporter discovers during three weeks with the doctors, nurses, patients and families in an intensive-care ward. A best-selling guide to suicide fires debate over when it is right to let life go--and who should make that choice when the patient no longer can.     

Reliability of the preliminary results of the Eleventh Census of Population and Housing of 1990

The author assesses the reliability of the eleventh general population and housing census conducted in Mexico in March 1990. An undercount of as many as two million persons is estimated. (SUMMARY IN ENG)     

被告人心理状态与审讯策略

<正> 以前研究审讯策略问题时,主要注意力大多放在被告人的气质、性格、感觉、知觉、记忆、思维、想像等心理现象方面。最近,许多学者已着手研究被告人心理状态在审讯中的作用以及如何利用的问题。他们达样做是有根据的。例如,达维多夫指出:"人的哪些心理应用哪些方法来影响,应有一个明确的概念",他认为心理状态是心理现象中的一个独立状态。在瓦西里耶夫、多斯普洛夫、杜洛夫、格拉兹林、拉季诺夫、罗什、茨维特科夫等人的著作中,对被告人