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...restricted way. Do you want to protect the money by making sure it stays in your bloodline? Or do you want to protect your son because you see financial troubles or a potentially costly divorce in his future? If your son's welfare is your priority, imagine the scenario that your will might provoke. If he already senses your qualms about his wife, a bequest designed to exclude her may inflame any tensions that already exist between them. And he's likely to feel hurt that you don't trust him. This is especially true if you single...
...capacity will allow Air France to proceed with planned expansion. But even he admits that the situation could get worse: "If the findings were to show a fundamental design or construction failure, then we'd have to tear it down and start again." Some experts predict that worst-case scenario won't come about - and also note ADP's good luck: the disaster struck shortly before 7 a.m., limiting a death toll that otherwise might have been in the hundreds. Others suggested the crash might prevent the airport from servicing the new superjumbo Airbus A380 when deliveries begin...
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...match wore on and the Harvard men’s tennis team watched co-captains David Lingman and Cliff Nguyen embattled in almost simultaneous second-set tiebreaks, both struggling to propel the Crimson past a Fighting Illini squad which had not lost in more than two years, the scenario was strangely appropriate...
...highway traffic snarls (caused by hiccups of human reaction time--"a single driver who's too ready to hit the brakes can slow down an entire highway"). Surowiecki describes a 1958 experiment in which a group of law students from New Haven, Conn., were asked to consider this scenario: You have to meet someone in New York City but don't know where to meet him or when. You cannot talk to the other person ahead of time. Where do you go, and when? The collective wisdom overwhelmingly answered: the Grand Central Terminal information booth, at noon. (Surowiecki admits...