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...Lower tire inflation gives a better grip on the road, a softer ride and, yes, a touch more stability, but it's also hell on tires. It's unclear whether that contributed to the blowouts responsible for 62 deaths, although at least one lawsuit now says it did. (Ford was also putting Goodyear tires on its Explorers then, and they apparently have fared fine.) Adding to the problems: It stands to reason that a more stable SUV would have handled those blowouts better, and saved some lives in the process...
Pity the poor sperm bank: It's difficult for an institution to maintain its dignity when it's so closely associated with (ahem) adult magazines, mentioned only sotto voce and, as of Wednesday, the focus of a California lawsuit. The parents of 11-year-old Brittany Johnson, who is suffering from a genetic kidney disorder, brought a case against a Culver City, Calif., sperm bank, charging that the facility should have screened Brittany's biological father more carefully for genetic diseases. As it turns out, Donor 276, as the father has been dubbed, has a family history of renal disease...
...disclosure agreements worth a $4 million lawsuit, and former KGB agents in the highest level of the p.r. department. It is now expected that most of the flacks at the network will be offered staff posts in the next presidential administration, so tight and well-perceived has been their operation during this "long national daydream...
...nine years, the timing of the recall is being hotly debated by lawyers and crisis-management experts. One of the critical questions: At some point, do seemingly isolated events form an ominous pattern that merits investigation and then action? To Valdes, an elementary-school teacher who has filed a lawsuit against Firestone, the recall was "too late, because so many people have died, including my grandmother...
Renova's success inspired something of a rush on vitamin A. But instead of using tretinoin--which would trigger intense FDA scrutiny, not to mention a patent-infringement lawsuit--most over-the-counter skin products contain other forms of vitamin A. Although these compounds, technically known as esters, are not biologically active, the theory is that certain enzymes in the skin would convert at least some of them into tretinoin...