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...reinsurer. "The reinsurers' job is to step in at the end of the day and make up any shortfall should there be a shortfall," he says. "I don't want anyone to have any question about where I will be in year eight." (See the top 10 news stories...
...watchers generally took the news as a sign of GM's new assertiveness on image control. "The GM recall is a result of the heightened awareness that the manufacturers have on the quality of their products in the wake of Toyota's problems. We will continue to see automakers be very proactive about owning up to manufacturing problems before the issues become PR nightmares," says Jesse Toprak, an analyst with TrueCar.com...
...Louis Majesty was hit by three "abnormally high" waves, each more than 33 ft. (10 m) high, striking in clear weather and without warning. "We heard a loud noise, and it was the wave that hit us," Claudine Armand, a passenger from France, told the Associated Press Television News. "When we came out of [our room], we saw the wave had flooded everything." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
This is not only true for news, but for our personal interactions as well. Scientists have shown that only a thin sliver of our communication occurs through spoken word. The majority of it is attributed to body language and other things such as tone of voice. Yet none of these things is expressed when you send a text message, write on your friend’s wall, or shoot an e-mail—and still we are so reliant on such forms of communication to maintain our relationships with the people in our lives...
...wife Silda's insistence, he has undergone marriage counseling and therapy. But so far, Spitzer's attempted rehabilitation has largely been a media phenomenon. He's a favorite guest on cable news shows, where he opines about Wall Street and regulatory reform. As he struggles to redefine his legacy, he is helped by the plunging standards for public figures; we seem to live in the midst of an endless race to the bottom, where it is nearly impossible to become permanently discredited. The ineptitude of his successor in the governor's office, David Paterson, who is embroiled in scandals...