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Welcome to the wild world of asbestos litigation. For all the lives asbestos has destroyed over the years, only now is it becoming clear how much additional ruin personal-injury lawyers caused by taking advantage of hapless plaintiffs and of the emotionally charged debate over corporate responsibility for unleashing the deadly substance. The first asbestos suits were filed in the 1970s and by 1982 had pushed Johns-Manville, the largest manufacturer, into bankruptcy. Wave after wave followed, forcing more than 50 companies into Chapter 11, including Owens-Corning and, last year, chemical and materials giant W.R. Grace...
...York City, a dozen officials from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Episcopal Church, MTV and DATA (Debt, Aid, Trade for Africa) gathered for a strategy session in the back room of a Manhattan restaurant. The group was brainstorming on ways to convince Americans that saving Africa from financial ruin is in America's best interest. As is frequently the case with debate on Africa, the discussion eventually sagged into weary frustration. By midnight, the air had leaked out of the room and, with it, any glimmer of productivity...
...York City, a dozen officials from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Episcopal Church, MTV and DATA (Debt, Aid, Trade for Africa) gathered for a strategy session in the back room of a Manhattan restaurant. The group was brainstorming on ways to convince Americans that saving Africa from financial ruin is in America's best interest. As is frequently the case with debate on Africa, the discussion eventually sagged into weary frustration. By midnight, the air had leaked out of the room and, with it, any glimmer of productivity...
...truth is that even if you screen potential dates carefully, avoid the turnips and put aside your fear of rejection, you’re in for your share of romantic frustration. That’s the nature of the game. So how can you keep from letting break-ups ruin your life...
Economically speaking, though, a ban could ruin the 20 or so companies that make and sell more than $5 million worth of hemp waffles, salad oils and other foods a year. Hemp Universe here in Lexington stopped selling food weeks ago, and Whole Foods Market of Austin, Texas, recommended last week that its 129 stores remove hemp products. Other retailers are holding firm, saying hemp foods contain such tiny traces of THC that the chemical wouldn't register in a routine lab test. But that's not the same as having zero THC, and the threat of further DEA action...