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...homeowners' and other kinds of insurance, it falls to your state to guarantee your policy. State limits vary, which is why it generally pays to do business only with insurance firms that rating agencies regard as investment-grade and that have long track records of paying claims in good times and bad - you know, like AIG. In other words, aim for big and reputable, the kind of firm likely to get bought up (or bailed out) if it runs into trouble...
...Hoping for a fast start, NASA's bosses didn't try to build labs, staff and launch sites from scratch. Rather, they went around the country cherry-picking military and academic institutions that were already doing the right kind of work and inviting them to join the new group. They went to Pasadena, where the California Institute of Technology operated its little-known Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and extended an invitation there. They made the same offer up the coast at Moffett Field, Calif., where the military operated its Ames Research Center, and also gathered up the government's missile...
...fear is that in the long term with a very expensive war, and perhaps a very expensive bailout, and a recession that decreases tax revenues, it will be very hard to get the kind of funding into science and engineering that is absolutely needed,” said Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman, who is a member of the Coalition for Life Sciences, which advocates for the NIH budget...
...have absolutely no objection to a candidate accurately quoting us. But we really have to push back hard when people distort what we say because our credibility is at stake. In this case, they knew perfectly well they were misrepresenting what we said. It was really outrageous and we kind of went off on them I guess. We were not amused...
...ElBaradei is exactly the kind of person you would want in the role - someone from a developing country who has a Western intellect but a Third World sensitivity." (former U.S. IAEA ambassador John Ritch...