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PRODUCT LIABILITY: A backlash against stringent laws that hold manufacturers liable for the potential harm caused by their products bred a Senate effort to create national product-liability standards that would override a number of state laws. Manufacturers, insurance companies and other business interests supported legislation limiting the number of suits going to trial and restricting damage awards. Opponents, led by trial lawyers and consumer groups that argued the new law would leave consumers vulnerable, mounted a filibuster to prevent full Senate consideration of the bill. A vote to end the filibuster was defeated 51 to 47, thus blocking...
...voice has always been a big problem at Harvard," she says; a professor once told her that her accent was "incredibly affected." But that was the way one leamed to talk at her all-girls high school, "a cross between a ladies' finishing school and an institution that bred independent, feminist young women...
...have beaches and mountains, too, and people there aren't nearly as neurotic. true, Boston has a flourishing intellectual and artistic life, but if you're craving arts and intellect, then why not New York City? (I know why not New York City, but I thought only born-and-bred Bostonians like me realized that when you pare away the grime, violence, stress, affection and ennui, New York is just a wannabe...
...unfashionable fact is that Ellison's writing was too refined, elaborate, to be spray painted on a tenement wall. He was a celebrator as much as a denouncer of the nation that bred him. In his multicolored vision, America was not just a violent jungle but a vibrant jumble of many cultures and temperaments; it mingled melody, harmony, dissonance and ad-lib genius, like the jazz that Ellison played, wrote about and loved...
...more than 1,000 lbs. of confiscated tiger bone have been burned. Conservationists don't trust either claim. China has considered raising tigers in captivity to supply the traditional-medicine market, but that may only legitimize a nasty business. Poachers could pass off the tigers they kill as "captive bred...