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Swinging wires held to his chest in mimicry of a bacterium, Professor of Biology Howard C. Berg discussed mechanisms bacteria use to move at the end of the lecture...
...Berg explained that a motor analogous to a bacterium's locomotion power would produce 6000 r.p.m., 10 horsepower, and 16 cylinders...
Neither as chic as Paris nor as intriguingly edgy as Budapest, the Vienna of today is a cozy and polished metropolis. But at the beginning of the 20th century, Vienna was chockablock with giants of the age: Freud and Wittgenstein, Mahler, Berg and Schoenberg, Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Hoffmann, Wagner and Loos -- as well as the young Adolf Hitler, a desperate artist-architect manque. Old cultural dogmas had been discredited, new doctrines not yet entrenched. Imminence was all. Artists and intellectuals all over Europe shared a sense of being on the very cusp -- between a smug century...
...case came into my office today," says Aldrich, "I wouldn't touch it." Berg's was one of the last major settlements reached before the California Supreme Court upheld portions of a new law that put a cap on court awards for pain and suffering and on contingency fees. That rule applied to Insurance Salesman Harry Jordan when he sued because surgeons mistakenly removed his healthy left kidney instead of his cancerous right one. Unable to work, he requires eight hours of dialysis three times a week. A jury awarded Jordan $5.2 million, but the cap law compelled the trial...
...Berg get too much? Jordan too little? The arguments and counterarguments spin like windmills in a storm. Doctors charge that extravagantly punitive lawsuits are driving many from high-risk specialties; lawyers countercharge that patients need the right to sue because medical societies rarely drive out low-quality practitioners. If doctors cry that between 1980 and 1984 the average malpractice award jumped 63%, to $660,123, lawyers may retort that half of all awards made in that period were below an unchanging median sum of $200,000. The average annual charge for malpractice insurance coverage may have increased 79% between...