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CAFFEINE HIGH If inflation really began to wake up last week, it must have been the smell of Starbucks coffee. Because the country's costliest cup of coffee just got costlier. The company upped prices on everything from decaf lattes to frappuccinos by a dime--7% to 8%. Prices for beans won't change. Starbucks cites rising real estate and labor costs. But with coffee beans trading at their cheapest in two years, at just over $1 per lb., a $1.25 cup of joe may be a bit harder to swallow...
...Unless state law prohibits, they can discriminate--legally--by raising premiums for someone who, for example, has suffered a heart attack and is renewing an individual or small-group policy. Access to a growing body of predictive genetic information would permit insurers to weed out further the riskiest, hence costliest clients or at least make them pay more for their coverage even before illness strikes. Little wonder that insurers would like to know, as Rosen puts it, "as much about your medical history as you know...
...History's costliest ecoterrorist strike was carried out on behalf of the (a) spotted owl (b) lynx (c) snail darter (d) grizzly bear...
Investigators were stumped until midweek, when something called the Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility. A fax purporting to be from the ELF said the group had sponsored what was probably history's costliest ecoterrorist strike "on behalf of the lynx," a spike-eared wildcat all but gone from the state. It went on, "This action is just a warning...For your safety and convenience, we strongly advise skiers to choose other destinations...
Looked at in this light, 1992's Hurricane Andrew, officially the costliest hurricane on record with damage, in today's dollars, of $35.5 billion, dropped to second place. The first was a Category 4 hurricane (wind speeds above 130 m.p.h.) that struck southeast Florida in 1926 and skipped into Alabama. (It has no name because the custom of naming storms began only in the early '50s.) If that storm took the same path today, it would cause damage totaling $77.5 billion. Of the 10 costliest hurricanes of the century, nine occurred before 1970. The only recent hurricane to make Pielke...