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...achievement is particularly impressive because she has been sailing Laser Radios, the boats used in singlehanded regattas, for only two years. Most of the other competitors in the regatta have sailed these boats for much longer. The Harvard senior credits coach Michael O’Connor with helping her adjust to Laser Radios.“[O’Connor is] a big help,” Watson said. “He’s incredibly knowledgeable.” Due to her relative inexperience with Laser Radios, Watson focused on minimizing mistakes during the regatta...
...insurance subsidiaries run into trouble, a state regulator will step in. That regulator might try to move policies to another carrier--"The insurance industry has a pretty good track record of taking care of itself," says Atlanta-based wealth manager Chris Dardaman--though new insurers may be allowed to adjust policy terms. If push really comes to shove and the subsidiary liquidates, you are still protected in different ways, depending on what sort of policy you have...
...most interesting aspect of the interview was/is its format; Gibson is interviewing her in three installments, the next two coming after the first round of the interview has already aired. Theoretically, this will allow him to adjust his questions - and her to strategize her answers - based on seeing the interview playback. It's like a sped-up version of Nixon and Frost...
This flexibility costs extra. But in the past, when there was no ability to adjust, many people simply let their policies lapse after years of paying premiums. So how do you decide what's right for you? Here are some guidelines...
Aren't we making a lot of progress? Absolutely. In a lot of places. When you adjust for age (since cancer is over-represented in the elderly), fewer people are getting cancer, and those who get it are surviving longer. We are benefiting from improved surgical techniques as well as more refined chemotherapies and radiation strategies that use lasers and robots to target cancer cells. Cracking the genomic code is leading to new drugs, geared to individual dna, that disrupt the very mechanism of cancer. "The rate of discovery has been phenomenal," says Dr. Harold Varmus, CEO of Memorial Sloan...