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...feel articulate or confident may be reluctant to speak out or take an unpopular stand--as Henry Fonda did in the classic movie 12 Angry Men--if they think their neighbors are watching and judging them. Furthermore, recording jury deliberations, opponents say, might encourage litigation and prolong what some feel is the already cumbersome process of appeals...
...choices and environmental factors, with the influence of genetics accounting for only about 25% of the phenomenon. But Deiana is convinced that genetics play a greater role, and he is determined to find the chromosomes on which longevity genes might reside, a potential step toward finding ways to medically prolong lives...
...says Eli Noam, director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information in New York City. "It's pretty clear that, given the head start of the Bells, it's difficult for someone to come in without a little regulatory weighting of the scales. But you don't want to prolong it. It puts regulators in the driver's seat...
...supposed scandal over the expulsion of sexually active “gays” in the 1920s has already received much more coverage than it deserves. The Crimson ought not seek to prolong it merely, as it seems, for the publicity that may accompany their calls for setting things right. Moreover, if The Crimson were to seek an accurate understanding of the College’s actions during those years, it would investigate as well whether the College expelled any students guilty of fornication or adultery. To focus simply on the expulsion of homosexual students only serves its agenda...
...Japanese chocolate maker whose 101 products generated sales of $556 million in 1998. Compare that to U.S.-based Hershey, which generated $4.4 billion in sales with just 78 products. Or take health care: The Japanese government's generous hospital reimbursement criteria practically encourage health-care providers to prolong illness rather than attack it, dragging the average acute care hospital stay in Japan to 24 days, compared with 11 days in Germany and six in America. Financial services are also rife with inefficiencies: Life insurance is largely sold not by financial professionals but by brigades of old ladies, often part-timers...