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Rather than causing a parking shortage, the proposal would leave the hospital with excess parking spaces, Gerace said. In addition, the hospital has increased available parking space at nearby lots and encouraged employees to take public transportation to work...
...despite the political risks. The lawmakers will certainly not cut the size of current benefits, but they might reduce future cost of living allowances (COLAs), which are payment increases linked to the inflation rate. One option, Feldstein suggested, would be to limit COLAs to the amount of inflation in excess of 3%. They would then be "diet COLAs," he quipped. If that strategy were adopted for Social Security and all other programs with COLAs, including federal employee pensions and veterans' benefits, it would save an estimated $50 billion...
According to Hirsch, a professor at Rockefeller University, relatively small amounts of excess flab--"even 5 lbs.," he says--can be dangerous, particularly to people already at risk for hypertension and diabetes. Oddly enough, the distribution of fat on the body seems to influence health. Studies have shown that people who carry their excess fat as a potbelly or "spare tire" are more apt to suffer from heart disease, stroke and diabetes than those who carry the same amount of flab around their hips and thighs. Why this is so remains a mystery...
Some important safety systems were not working at the time of the accident. Refrigeration units designed to keep the highly reactive MIC cool so that it could not vaporize had been shut down before the accident. Other equipment, including devices designed to vent and burn off excess gases, was so inadequate, investigators hinted, that it would have been ineffective even if it had been operating at the time of the accident...
...surface, and he had an excess of surface, Hugh Morrow would seem the epitome of a family man; he was one of eight children and came to be father and stepfather to ten of his own. He was genial, articulate, gregarious, a spokesman for Nelson Rockefeller, intimate of politicians and journalists across the country. But at home he often seemed a figure invested with glamour, forbearance and remoteness. There, "injury and anger gusted inarticulately through the house. The spirit bore a bruise, a grievance: the bruise was mysterious . . . We could not explain it, we could not assuage...