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...contingency fees (if the case fails the plaintiff's attorney earns nothing, but if it succeeds he commonly takes one-third and, on occasion, as much as 50% of the award). Says Edward Levy, general manager of the Association of California Insurance Companies: "Lawyers are out to make a buck, and they seem to have little concern for the overall societal effects of what they are doing...
...help doctors make diagnoses and treatment decisions. New standard practices could be communicated to doctors within months rather than 15 years, the current lag between discovery and practice. Pharmaceutical companies with access to anonymous health data could improve and speed up drug development. There may even be a buck or two in it for consumers from what has been called information liquidity: If you want access to my data, pay me. Best of all, we could finally throw away those damned clipboards...
...materialism may be good for business, GDP growth and China's international image. But when we drink Coke and wear Nike, we can't help but lose some of our cultural identity. Foreign companies don't care what happens to China; they just want to make a quick buck. It's up to Chinese people to be responsible consumers. Otherwise, our country will turn into a clone of America. Does the world really need that? Angela Lai Shenzhen, China...
...plug-in Prius. Hanssen recently showed off his prototype at the 2005 Tour de Sol, a green-car race in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where it didn't win but did deliver a fuel economy of 102 m.p.g. over a 150-mile course. The cost of charging the batteries? A buck...
...Coca and Carl Reiner on Your Show of Shows; in Los Angeles. His goofiness enhanced such roles as Ernest T. Bass, a would-be country Casanova on The Andy Griffith Show,and he went on to direct such TV shows as Hogan's Heroes, Bewitched and the Mel Brooks-Buck Henry spy spoof Get Smart...