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...whose side effects cannot be completely controlled fail to meet all the purposes for which they were created and therefore are insufficient." This argument suggests that aspirin should be banned because of the risk of Reye's syndrome and airplanes should be grounded because of risk of a crash. Buffer zones between fields and separate processing facilities can keep genetically-modified crops completely separate from other crops. With proper care, GMOs can be completely controlled...
Bottom line: if you've had guaranteed replacement coverage in the past, it's probably been converted to an extended-limit policy, in which you are protected only to the amount you pay for, plus a 25% buffer. That means if you pay for $100,000 of insurance, you're covered up to $125,000. The buffer is there to compensate for miscalculations...
...like me, that buffer isn't enough. Estimated rebuilding costs vary widely, especially on an older home. My agent helped me come up with a figure. But if he's wrong and my house burns, I pay. Likewise, I'm responsible for getting the square footage right and valuing special things like the marble counter we put in. I raised my coverage by $71,000 to be safe. The good news is that I was able to offset the added premiums by raising deductibles. Do I really need this extra insurance? Do I want to sleep at night...
...string of villages inside Serbia, or face eviction by the Yugoslav army. And though new president Vojislav Kostunica later postponed the deadline indefinitely - saying he wanted to give diplomacy a chance - the situation poses a huge dilemma for NATO, since the villages in question are inside a three-mile buffer zone from which Belgrade is barred from sending troops, under the agreement that ended last year's Kosovo conflict...
...While the Western alliance blames the latest troubles on an offshoot of the Kosovo Liberation Army, and has stepped up its operations against the group on the Kosovo side of the border, it has also warned Belgrade against sending troops into the buffer zone. But for President Kostunica, the continued presence of hundreds of heavily armed guerrillas from Kosovo on Serbian soil killing Serbian policemen is intolerable - particularly when the Milosevic-led opposition is charging that Serbia's government is now in the hands of its enemies. Kostunica's message to NATO has been, essentially, either the West deals with...