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...Many doctors do. Many, especially those in the inherently risky specialties, such as surgery or obstetrics, have been forced out of business by malpractice premiums or hounded out by malpractice litigation. A totally irresponsible legal system, driven by a small cadre of lawyers who have hit the mother lode, has produced perhaps the most dysfunctional medical-liability system in the world. Juries hand out millions of dollars not just for lost earnings but also in capricious punitive damages in which the number of zeros attached to the penalty seems to be chosen at random...
...George and Wilma Massie. Avid weekend gold panners, the Massies launched a for-profit gold-prospecting club in 1968. They moved their business in 1976 to California, where George won a little fame four years later when he found a million-dollar pocket of nuggets in the Mother Lode area. In the late 1980s their son Tom, now 37, began filming George's gold-hunting expeditions and lectures--footage that the Massies turned into an infomercial called The Gold Prospecting Show. "It kinda just evolved into a program," recalls son Perry, who today is 40 and CEO of Global Outdoors...
...past Davis has sampled music close to his own tastes--funk, hip-hop and R. and B.--but other DJs caught on and started copying his style. Now he looks for the stuff they pass over. In 2000 he struck an obscurantist's mother lode. His local record shop, Village Music in Mill Valley, Calif., bought the entire stock of a defunct 1980s dance-music store at an auction. Davis went mad flipping through 10,000 records--mostly rare new wave European singles--that had been frozen in a storage locker for the past decade. "DJ Shadow is my best...
...course. A Google search is fine for selected topics like the Taliban and hemorrhagic diseases. But for that mother lode of breaking news, deep background and raw gossip, Middle Eastern hands tell me, there is a short list of must-visit sites...
...course. A Google search is fine for selected topics like the Taliban and hemorrhagic diseases. But for that mother lode of breaking news, deep background and raw gossip, Middle Eastern hands tell me, there is a short list of must-visit sites...