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...greater chance than the average person of suddenly dropping dead. As physicians and sporting organizations learn more about the condition known as sudden cardiac death (SCD), their research has opened an emotive and evolving debate about what can be done to protect athletes - and how much money should be spent trying to prevent what is still a rare but devastating occurrence...
...infamous professional relationship with creative director Grace Coddington, a fire-haired industry veteran who harbors enough warmth and emotion to fend off nearly all of her co-worker’s stinging barbs. Exercising “complete creative control” over the project, Cutler and his crew spent months in and around the Vogue offices during preparation for the September 2007 issue, which tipped the scales to become the largest magazine in history at over four pounds. The Fashion Bible’s glossy cover invited readers to partake in “840 pages of fearless fashion...
...gets back to responsibility - how much are we willing to spend as a nation to ensure that every single young person has an opportunity to do service in exchange for government-supported education is a wonderful idea. But you'd probably get some pushback on how much should be spent on it and what are the priorities and do we do it at this time. There may be a time for it, and it's certainly, I think, something that seems to have a lot of bipartisan appeal - service and education. But it's just a matter of prioritization right...
...speech can make the numbers jump. After all, Clinton got virtually the identical result the day after he gave a similar speech on his own health-care plan in that same spot 16 years ago. It turned out to be the high-water mark for an initiative that spent the next year in a drawn-out death spiral and that proved to be a failure that helped cost the Democrats control of Congress in the 1994 elections...
...after the application for leave was refused on Tuesday, the company was ordered to pay $2,857 in legal fees to McCurry. "It is expensive business to go all the way to the highest court," says Mr. Suppiah, who will not disclose how much he and his family have spent on the case. "Now that we have won, we want to put the nightmare behind us and focus on developing a McCurry franchise...