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...Height that homes in New Orleans will have to be raised to qualify for flood insurance and federal rebuilding funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Apr. 24, 2006 | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

Harvard, meanwhile, is paced by junior midfielder Evan Calvert (14 goals) and junior attacker Greg Cohen (15 goals). Junior John Henry Flood, coming off his best game of the season—winning 14 of 18 faceoffs—leads the team with 32 ground balls...

Author: By Kevin C. Reyes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PREVIEW: Crimson Hoping 16 Will Be Lucky Number | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

...regular oil changes, smog checks, or brakes. The warranty is, in effect, an insurance policy. If the entire engine were to fail, the warranty would cover a replacement, limiting our losses in the event of a catastrophe. This is the principle behind almost every insurance policy: fire insurance, flood insurance, home insurance, and life insurance. The unfortunate exception is health insurance, and this difference has led to an expensive, inefficient, and unsustainable medical system.Health insurance, when purchased through an employer, is currently tax deductible. This health insurance generally has low deductibles and high initial costs, because the government subsidizes (through...

Author: By Ashish Agrawal, | Title: Hidden Costs of Health Insurance | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...well in the first half,” Anderson noted. “Joe played great in the second half. You don’t usually see teams that play two goalies successfully, but we’ve done pretty well with it.” Junior John Henry Flood contributed to the second half onslaught by dominating the face-offs—he won 14 of 18, including all six in the final 30 minutes. “[Flood’s] been doing a great job all year,” Samuelson said. “Today...

Author: By Kevin C. Reyes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Strong Second Half Takes Down Brown | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...yielding money-market accounts. Stocks, for most investors, were the only game in town. The rise of hedge funds, which seek to earn high returns for wealthy investors in return for stiff fees, added to the pursuit of fat payoffs in markets all over the globe. Indeed, a flood of foreign institutional demand for stocks is one of the primary reasons why markets in countries like Japan and India have performed so well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pumped about stocks | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

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