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...dishwasher, that's often less than the cost of buying a new one. You're better off paying an extra 10% for replacement-cost coverage, which doesn't adjust for depreciation. For even more security, you can buy extended-replacement-cost coverage, which provides a 20%-to-30% buffer above what should be the cost of rebuilding, to protect against the price gouging that often occurs after disasters. And, notes Mogil, anyone with a home worth more than $500,000 should look at a guaranteed-replacement-cost policy that pays to rebuild no matter how high costs go. Only...
These unrecognized social groups and the events they provide to members and non-members also act as a buffer to surprisingly undergraduate-unfriendly Boston. Though Beantown teems with bars, pubs, music clubs and a population comprised of 25 percent college students, 21-plus age restrictions on entries into many bars and nightclubs, as well as exorbitant prices for food and entertainment make nightlife inaccessible to many a Harvard student. Which makes on-campus space all the more important...
...road trip ($800). "People want luxury. They want entertainment. They want convenience," says George Barris. He should know: the legendary car customizer designed the original Batmobile and once decked out a Cadillac limo for Elvis Presley with a TV, a record player and even a gold-plated, electric shoe buffer (in the 1960s, that passed for cutting-edge automotive style...
...that the USC first varsity boat qualified for the NCAAs, but its crew did not. Therefore, the teams behind USC in the first varsity Grand Final would move ahead one place in points for team rankings. So in order for Radcliffe to win, USC could not be the buffer between the Black and Whites and the Huskies...
...isolated areas of Arizona, California and Washington State. Even so, the USDA--under pressure from Midwestern politicians who dream of biopharm Silicon Valleys in Iowa--has stopped short of restricting biopharming in major corn-growing states. Its new rules would step up inspections of biopharms and expand the buffer zone between genetically modified corn and food crops to a mile. But opponents say that's not wide enough to prevent cross-pollination, and a coalition of 11 environmental groups is filing suit against the Agriculture Department. They want to ban the use of food crops for pharmaceutical uses and restrict...