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AWARDED. To the parents of SERGIO JIMENEZ II, the six-year-old boy who died in 1994 after being thrown from a Dodge Caravan with a defective rear latch: $262.5 million in damages; in Charleston, S.C. Chrysler Corp. plans to appeal the judgment, reportedly the largest rendered against a U.S. automaker...
...manner, is convincing he is by no means likable. In fact, as the audience does not identify or sympathize with him on his pre-Tibet misadventures, the movie's first half seems aimless, and Annaud dangerously skirts the edge of alienating the audience by depriving them of something to latch onto...
...effects vary widely, however, depending on a variety of factors. To begin with, each neurotransmitter can latch onto more than one kind of receptor. As many as 15 distinct receptors have been identified for serotonin alone. And since a given nerve cell may have more or fewer receptors, depending on where in the brain it is located, a jolt of a particular neurotransmitter can generate electrical signals of widely varying strengths. Small wonder, therefore, that serotonin can affect everything from satiety to depression...
...fast it can grow," Greenspan said. "The costs of a failed experiment would be much too burdensome for too many of our citizens." Does that mean the Fed will raise rates at its August 19 meeting? Kadlec doesn't think so. "He's got nothing to latch onto. There is no sign of inflation, and the economy still seems to be slowing. The only worrisome area is labor, where the scarcity of workers might push wages up, but even that's just minuscule right now." Reassured investors sent the Dow up 154 points on the day for a new record...
...boomers once boasted of never trusting anyone over 30, Xers have even more cause for disillusion. Between 1965 and 1977, the divorce rate doubled. More than 40% of today's young adults had spent time in a single-parent home by age 16. Did the psychic toll produce latch-key basket cases or self-reliant survivors? Undoubtedly, both. In their coupling habits, Gen X is the "youngest copulating and oldest marrying generation ever recorded," note Strauss and Howe. Since 1970 the average marriage age has crept up from 23 to 27 for men and from 21 to 25 for women...