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...supersize awards didn't just make victims and lawyers rich. They also got corporations to take notice--and to change their conduct. The Ford Pinto, alleged to be prone to erupt in flames after rear-end collisions, was taken off the market. Drugs with severe side effects, such as "phen-fen," were yanked from pharmacy shelves. A $1.8 million verdict in 1980 on behalf of a four-year-old girl who had been badly burned in 1970 persuaded a manufacturer to stop making flammable pajamas--and helped spur more rigorous federal regulations on children's sleepwear...
...lawsuits on behalf of individual smokers that have been filed across the country may ultimately prove even more costly. In Florida a jury last year found that tobacco companies had engaged in "extreme and outrageous conduct" by selling a product it knew to be dangerous. The jurors are now considering damages. The tobacco companies are worried that the total bill could be as high as $300 billion. They have said the case could bankrupt them--a result even Scruggs and Moore would hate to see. "An unregulated black market in tobacco," Moore says, "would not be in the public interest...
Diagnosis can be tricky. Psychological tests go only so far because patients showing signs of dementia are often uncommunicative; failure to remember or fully answer questions can be as easily caused by severe depression as by full-fledged dementia. Doctors typically conduct a battery of tests, which can include blood counts, chest X rays and tests of thyroid function. Later this year the American Academy of Neurology will issue a new set of guidelines that emphasizes the importance of taking cat scans or magnetic resonance images of the brain. These are particularly good at revealing structural problems caused by ministrokes...
...reiterate this call to highlight the troubling flaws of the composition and practices of previous presidential search committees. Putting students on the search committee would do much to address these flaws, but in the likely case that this will not happen, the committee must, at the very least, conduct its business more openly...
Giles has come under attack from former reporters at the Detroit News who say that his performance as editor and his conduct during the still-ongoing strike should disqualify him from the position...