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...April 13 by ordering its dealers to immediately stop selling the model. Plans to launch the SUV in the next few weeks in China were also put on hold. While only about 5,000 of the luxury vehicles had been sold since its November debut, executives decided to err on the side of caution following the revelation that Toyota had withheld information about gas-pedal problems in a number of its most popular cars. A week before the Lexus stoppage, the car manufacturer was hit with a $16.4 million federal fine for its failure to report the gas-pedal defect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

...general context of mental health concerns at Harvard, history has only encouraged administrators to err on the side of caution. Because resources are seriously limited at Harvard, this often translates to suggesting a leave...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brain Break | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...sisterhood isn’t about shared genetics, simply spending a certain amount of time together, sharing similar interests, or mutual inspiration. It’s only about all those things until it’s about none of those things. Know what I mean broth–err friend...

Author: By Eric T. Justin | Title: ‘Sup Bro? | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

Those biases, which err mostly on the side of "better safe than sorry," have fueled a trend toward excessive and, argues Bedrosian, unnecessary surgery to remove both breasts. From 1998 to 2003, the rate of such double mastectomies in the U.S. jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Double Mastectomy May Not Improve Survival | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...such, governments were locked into these contracts, if not legally then politically - amid news reports of a new and potentially lethal virus spreading around the globe, governments could not responsibly pass on the option for vaccine. In this context, governments may have felt the only prudent course was to err on the side of caution. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was the Threat of H1N1 Flu Exaggerated? | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

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