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...technologies being developed will be deployed to suppress dissent and that they defy international weapons treaties. Through public websites, interviews with defense researchers and data obtained in a series of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by watchdog groups, TIME has managed to peer into the Pentagon's multimillion-dollar program and piece together this glimpse of the gentler, though not necessarily kinder, arsenal of tomorrow...
...time, home-repair costs are rising 7% a year. The stock market is no longer providing insurers a fat return on invested premiums. And then there's mold or, as many news stories call it, "toxic mold." Salvatore says, "We've always paid mold claims. What's new is multimillion-dollar jury awards." In Texas alone, prodded by significant publicity (including a New York Times Magazine cover story), the number of mold claims jumped 581% last year...
...some sour oats from other trainers. The notion is that he "bought" the Derby for nearly $1 million, using his Middle Eastern ATM to pry War Emblem loose from a struggling Chicago businessman, since Reineman's company, Crown Steel Sales, was losing money. This, in a sport in which multimillion prices are routinely paid for animals in the hopes of winning big races. "There's been a lot of horses bought at the 11th hour that people don't talk about," says Baffert. Usually because they...
...1980s, when only a few victims had gone public with claims of abuse, church officials could afford to resolve each case quietly and relatively inexpensively. But in the following decade, facing the prospect of multimillion-dollar judgments in sex-abuse cases, the dioceses in Dallas and Santa Fe were forced to sell or mortgage property to stay afloat. Since then, church officials have scrambled to devise new lines of defense...
...estate title-transfer records and questioning local officials about church management of various charitable entities. They are finding, for instance, that church authorities regularly keep only records of the book value--rather than the current market value--of certain properties. The Stockton diocese, for example, in 1998 valued its multimillion-dollar cathedral at $28,000, the cost to build...