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Lloyd's of London has always been synonymous with insurance-underwriting expertise and the sober assessment of risk. When film star Betty Grable sought to insure her famous legs, Lloyd's came up with a policy and calculated the appropriate premium. But disasters have a way of defying the laws of probability. Recent years have witnessed an extraordinary string: the Piper Alpha oil-rig blowout in the North Sea, the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland, the Exxon Valdez oil spill and America's Hurricane Hugo. Last week Lloyd's announced that it would post a $980 million...
...years ago, he wandered through Washington as an opposition rebel, unsure of himself and trailing stories of drunkenness, to be dismissed as a political lightweight by George Bush. Back in the U.S. last week as the elected president of Russia, a sober Boris Yeltsin took the capital by storm, impressing Congress and many Americans -- if not quite Bush himself. "He used to be a loose cannon," said Senator Robert Dole, the minority leader. "Now he's a big gun." Said Bush: "Let's not forget that it was President Gorbachev's policies" that ended the cold...
...drunk when she started kissing him at a party and ended up back in his room. Even through his haze, he had some qualms about sleeping with her: "I'm fighting against my hormonal instincts, and my moral instincts are saying, 'This is my friend and if I were sober, I wouldn't be doing this.' " But he went ahead anyway. "When you're drunk, and there are all sorts of ambiguity, and the woman says 'Please, please' and then she says no sometime later, even in the middle of the act, there still may very well be some kind...
...screen," says Gerhard Moland, a children's services administrator, "it would overwhelm the system." Now social workers consider the child's health and the mother's potential for rehabilitation when making court recommendations. The biggest factor in determining whether or not the county takes custody: the presence of a sober grandmother. Currently, grandmothers care for more than half of the 1,000 high-risk babies in Moland's district...
...Margaruite Custode -- and many others like hers. First, if it were not for the threat of losing legal custody, she would not have sought treatment for her drug habit. Second, if it were not for the all too rare opportunity for first-rate treatment, she would not be sober for nine months straight with a good chance of regaining custody of her child. Whether Custode will be a good parent is impossible to say, but both social- service workers and law-enforcement officials are finding that the best way to rescue a child is to rescue the mother as well...