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...Some scientists blame climate change; others finger a mega-outbreak of disease. Still others subscribe to what Australian paleontologist Tim Flannery refers to as the "black-hole theory of extinction." In this case, as Flannery wryly explains in his just published ecological history of North America, The Eternal Frontier (Atlantic Monthly Press; $27.50), the black hole lay between the nose and chin of our Stone Age ancestors...
...guest rooms were done over twice; a 20,000-sq.-ft. oceanfront spa and fitness center was built; so was a new ballroom, and lobbies and loggia were restored. New restaurants and bars were added, as were adjoining tennis and golf clubs. When the Ocean Course, the oldest 18-hole course in Florida, was recently redesigned by course architect Brian Silva, its transformation was duly noted in golf and travel magazines...
...company?s prescription drug coverage plan. District Judge Robert Lasnik ruled Tuesday that Bartell?s refusal to offer full benefit coverage to women was tantamount to sex discrimination. "Although the plan covers almost all drugs and devices used by men, the exclusion of prescription contraceptives creates a gaping hole in the coverage offered to female employees, leaving a fundamental and immediate health care need uncovered," Lasnik wrote in his opinion...
...warming suit was already in use, so Brunton was simply wrapped in an insulating blanket and left to get warmer on his own - which he did. Later they thought he was hallucinating when he said a man had come through the ceiling. But sure enough, there was a hole there left by a worker struggling to repair something in the decrepit Victorian pile, ranked as one of Britain's top 40 hospitals...
...bought the doughnut and waited for the hole,” Spiegelman says...