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...Florida lawsuit, representing as many as 500,000 smokers, now enters the damages phase, seeking up to $200 billion. And that's just one state. The verdict could give a boost to more than 60 class actions pending across the U.S. Says Stanford law school professor Robert Rabin: "The industry's fear all along has been catastrophic liability in one of these aggregate cases, where thousands of claims are tied together...
There are policies that could reduce greenhouse emissions and at the same time boost economic growth and raise living standards. One such policy, called an environmental tax shift, would move a portion of the tax base away from income, wages and profits and onto pollution and fossil-fuel consumption. Tax shifts greatly reduce the economic costs of emissions reductions because they use market mechanisms rather than regulation to drive changes in behavior, and they also provide a way to reduce taxes on income and profits. M. JEFF HAMOND, DEPUTY DIRECTOR Incentives Program Redefining Progress Washington...
...postapartheid South Africa are part of the country's draw, both government and the private sector are aiming to put the travel industry in the big leagues. The government, which has underfunded tourism promotion and infrastructure in the past two years, has identified the sector as key to helping boost employment, support rural communities and conserve the environment. A government-business partnership, set up in late 1998, is injecting some $25 million into marketing, with the aim of 20% annual growth in international tourism. The government's streamlined tourist board--SA Tourism, or SATOUR--will focus on countries such...
...means having to defend her eating habits to total strangers. (She's thin, folks.) But talking in quiet, manicured tones in her dressing room, Flockhart, 34, explained why she chose to spend her hiatus from TV work appearing in a dark off-Broadway play that will do little to boost her stock with Hollywood moguls shopping for the next Julia Roberts. "There was no [career] strategy involved," she says. "I decided back in September that I really wanted to do a play, and I was fascinated by the material. What motivates some people to commit what is, from a judgmental...
...explains what the retrieval process is," Pinkerton said. "That's the point [when] we get a lot of attrition." Egg donors take hormones to boost their egg production before undergoing minor surgery to have the eggs removed...