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Some people are concerned about the safety of nuclear power plants. To that, we answer that global warming greatly outweighs the nearly infinitesimal risk from the plants. So far, nuclear energy has proven to be remarkably safe as its production has become more computerized and has removed most potential human errors from the equation. The only notable nuclear accident in the United States was the Three Mile Island incident, but no one was injured there. Additionally, the incident was caused by a human error, and such concerns have become obsolete with the latest generation of reactors. However, the president will...
Harvard’s internal risk management services will audit the Undergraduate Council this semester to critique the organization’s current financial practices and to ensure appropriate use of funds...
...University’s Risk Management and Audit Services conduct the examination of the UC every three years in a process that takes about three months. In that vein, this year’s audit did not spring from any circumstantial conditions or allegations of poor fiscal discipline, according to UC Vice President Eric N. Hysen...
...UC’s last audit in 2007, the RMAS deemed the organization’s financial procedures “inadequate”—the result of a variety of “high and medium risk issues” that could have led to fraud or misappropriation of funds, according to UC Treasurer Brad M. Paraszczak...
...example of why the current individual insurance market is unsustainable. After all, the justifications the company provides for why its rates have to increase do make sense. In a bad economy, the people most likely to cancel their health insurance are healthy people; this leaves the remaining so-called risk pool less healthy, and therefore more expensive to insure. (Waxman, in a follow-up letter to WellPoint, asked the company to explain why data show that it had more individually insured customers in California in 2009 than in 2008. But it's not just the total number of customers that...