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...Live, the Los Angeles-based entertainment company behind the concerts, invested more than $20 million to bring about "one of the greatest musical events in history," replete with 22 sets, high-wire acrobatics and elaborate pyrotechnic lighting. Just last week, producers revealed that Swarovski would crown Jackson, his costumes and the sets with 300,000 pieces of crystal, adding even more glitter to the massive 20,000-seat O2. (See pictures of people around the world mourning Michael Jackson...
...Friday afternoon, AEG had not responded to queries regarding its insurance coverage. "We're dealing with a tragedy. We have no comment on that," an unnamed company spokesman told the Los Angeles Times. And as for refunds, AEG announced that ticket refund informaion would be released early next week...
...Jackson's death spread around the world on June 25, the social-networking site Twitter came to a virtual standstill, flooded with visitors tweeting the news. Within moments of the first breaking news reports - indicating that Jackson had suffered cardiac arrest and had been rushed via ambulance to a Los Angeles hospital - both #michaeljackson and cardiac arrest emerged as two of the network's highest-rated "trending topics." As TIME's Michael Scherer notes, nearly three times as many tweets were posted about Michael Jackson on Thursday than about either Iran or swine flu. (See TIME's Michael Jackson tribute...
...courts are increasingly siding with the widows as well. In April, a federal judge in Los Angeles told Homeland Security to reopen the cases of 22 immigrants denied green cards because their U.S. spouses had died, ruling that the deaths should not nullify the widows' (or widowers') legal residence applications. But there have been judicial defeats for the widows as well - some judges have ruled, understandably, that current immigration law ties their hands - which is why some people are relying on legislation like Nelson-McGovern...
...brand-name prescriptions that are requested by patients and ordered by doctors every day. Orszag is particularly obsessed with research by the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, documenting huge regional variations in costs but virtually no variations in outcomes. For example, chronically ill patients in Los Angeles visited doctors an average of 59.2 times in the last six months of their life, vs. only 14.5 times in Ogden, Utah; they still ended up just as dead. Medicare now pays three times as much per enrollee in Miami as in Honolulu, and costs are growing twice as fast...