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...Political Peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halperin's Take: What Obama Achieved — and What He Didn't | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...insurance fraud as a result of financial pressures. "We have had cases in the past where ships have been intentionally scuttled as part of a fraudulent insurance scheme," he says. "The law says that when a ship doesn't arrive in port, it's assumed to be from a peril of the sea, and the underwriters have to pay unless they can prove the sinking was not accidental, which is pretty hard without any witnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Piracy Spread to Europe's Waters? | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

Without big national platforms and regular media access, far-right parties rely heavily on door-to-door campaigning and local meetings. The bigger parties ignore such old-fashioned techniques at their peril, says Eric Pickles, chairman of Britain's Conservative Party. "You've got a kind of [mainstream politician] representing those estates who didn't grow up on them, doesn't know them well and visits like a political tourist." Mainstream parties have "got to re-engage the population," he says. "You can't write the people off who voted BNP as all being Nazis. It's neglect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The March to the Far Right | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...idea of a public plan that would compete with private insurers; two liberal groups - Health Care for America Now and the National Physicians Alliance - have run ads in six states arguing that a public option is essential. "August," says White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, "has both peril and opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Close the Deal on Health Care? | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

...length of time a texting driver's eyes were off the road - almost five seconds, long enough to cover a football field at highway speeds. Given the increasing popularity of texting - it's grown tenfold in the last three years, by one count - it could swiftly become an enormous peril to road safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texting Drivers, Tempting Fate | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

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