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Random thoughts occurred: the $100,000 note he had co-signed to help a relative and now must repay. The news item about the value of the British pound rising to two dollars. The unclaimed 50,000 pounds Kremer prize awaiting the first person to achieve a mile-long, controlled, human-powered flight. "Suddenly this light bulb just glowed over my head," MacCready recalls. "Fifty thousand pounds was worth $100,000, which would pay off the debt...
Nonetheless, anyone who has ever endured a public insult can understand why juries act as they do. Words hurt. Juries cannot alleviate pain, but they can, for vengeance's sake, exact a pound of flesh. Their motivation for doing so is reinforced by the perceived indifference of the press to individuals' rights and sensibilities. Though many newspapers have established corrections policies, few offer the aggrieved a hearing before an impartial arbiter. No arbitration process will stave off all lawsuits, of course. But until more news organizations create other remedies for the aggrieved, they and their attorneys will constantly...
During a memorial service yesterday, a steel pin holding the bell's 300-pound clapper in place broke for the second time this year, rendering the regular computer-operated ringing mechanism inoperable, said Marie Cloutier-Diflo, administrative assistant for Memorial Church...
...agency, in Cherry Hill, N.J., requires natural mothers to fill out ten-page medical histories that ask about everything from hay fever and heavy drinking to Down's syndrome and blood transfusions. Genetic counselors are often called in as consultants. "We believe an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," says agency supervisor Mary Anne Giello...
...earnings debacle was caused partly by fluctuations in the values of the British pound, U.S. dollar and Japanese yen, which left Philips with an estimated $110 million in currency-related losses. But there were other problems. Philips' computer division, for example, has been struggling for years in an increasingly competitive market, and lost money during the most recent quarter...