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...efforts have brought a new wave of members into the fold. The organization has recently seen an infusion of dancers and journalists. Along with changes in membership, he has also tried to bring the society’s focus back to the arts, not just swanky lunches. He has involved Signet alumni and faculty members in Signet events, including Stockard Channing ’65, Tommy Lee Jones ’62, John A. Lithgow ’67, and Porter University Professor Helen Vendler...
...most important victim of America’s insatiable urge to sue; fears of malpractice suits push doctors to over-medicate their patients and employ expensive medical procedures excessively. In the last thirty years, for example, the number of American babies delivered by Caesarian section has increased five-fold, an increase fueled in part by bank-breaking jury awards in malpractice suits that found doctors liable for the pain and suffering of patients born with congenital diseases, such as cerebral palsy. A 2003 study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, however, found that, despite the increased number...
Costs associated with natural disasters (primarily extreme weather events) continue to rise. Yearly damages increased ten-fold between the 1980s and 1990s, and reached $55 billion in 2002 ($11 billion insured) and $60 billion ($15 billion insured) in 2003. The shock waves of emerging risks are reverberating through the insurance and reinsurance sector...
...developing countries it is worse. Around the world, the energy sector’s ratio of RD&D investments to total revenues is far lower than for any other high-tech sector of the economy. These investments will need to be boosted at least two- to three-fold if we are to be able to meet the energy-climate challenge we face in the decades immediately ahead...
...Friday night, on plain and bare black floors, before an intimate crowd of about 100 students and family seated in no-frills fold-out chairs, Harvard’s best student dancers dabbed away beads of sweat as they showcased a program of selected student choreography at Dancers Viewpointe...