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a) state income tax revenue fell not only because of lower wages and salaries, but also due to tax evasion.
b) in spite of the global recession, US income tax collections have shown a modest increase in states like California and Vermont.
c) income tax withholdings bear no relationship to citizens’ wages and salaries.
d) income tax is not the only source of state revenue, but the major one.
e) although most American sates experienced considerably lower personal income tax collections in the first four months of 2009, predictions are that they will have fully recovered by 2011.

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Clues to How an Electric Treatment for Parkinson’s Work

In 1998, Dr. Philip A. Starr started putting electrodes in people’s brains. A neurosurgeon at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Starr was treating people with Parkinson’s disease, which slowly destroys essential bits of brain tissue, robbing people of control of their bodies. At first, drugs had given his patients some relief, but now they needed more help. After the surgery, Dr. Starr closed up his patients’ skulls and switched on the electrodes, releasing a steady buzz of electric pulses in their brains. For many patients, the effect was immediate. “We have people who, when they’re not taking their meds, can be frozen,” said Dr. Starr. “When we turn on the stimulator, they start walking.” First developed in the early 1990s, deep brain stimulation, or D.B.S., was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating Parkinson’s disease in 2002. Since its invention, about 100,000 people have received implants. While D.B.S. doesn’t halt Parkinson’s, it can turn back the clock a few years for many patients. Yet despite its clear effectiveness, scientists like Dr. Starr have struggled to understand what D.B.S. actually does to the brain. “We do D.B.S. because it works,” said Dr. Starr, “but we don’t really know how.” In a recent experiment, Dr. Starr and his colleagues believe they found a clue. D.B.S. may counter Parkinson’s disease by liberating the brain from a devastating electrical lock-step.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/science/ (adapted)

According to the text, choose the correct alternative to answer the following question: “Who is Philip A. Starr?”