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...money for the bridge loan consider the proposal unlikely to pass in the face of an expected Republican filibuster. Some in the party would not mind if one or two of the auto companies go under, reasoning that it would be easier to force them to restructure along strict environmentally correct lines. But there's concern that bankruptcy could lead to a broader economic fallout. "Because of the condition of the credit market, there's some concern the car companies would have to liquidate," says one senior Democratic aide...
Researchers categorized cities and towns into three groups: those that had strict smoking laws prior to 2004, those with weaker laws at that time, and those with no smoking restrictions at all. They found that cities that had already had stricter laws, such as Boston and Cambridge, experienced changes in cardiovascular fatalities earlier, corresponding to when their regulations were modified...
...Kong conglomerate; her family is rich. Lee, now 36 and the managing director of a printing company, remembers crying about the injustice of it all. But today, she recognizes that she gleaned a valuable lesson from the incident: money does not necessarily grow on family trees. "[My dad] instilled strict financial discipline on us when we were young," she says. "It taught me that it's good to plan and save, and that no one's going to come save you if you screw...
...into roles as either sexualized damsels in distress or desexualized comed relief, while black characters are often marginalized altogether. To offset these outdated limitations, BlackCast has reworked the script’s basic structure and implemented gender- and race-blind casting. “Too often directors are too strict in their interpretation of the play,” Coles says. “If it is set in Victorian England, the play would be all 20 white men and women, and that is not representative of theater at Harvard.” But through a dramatic change in temporal...
...when it comes to human casualties, they barely register a blip. "They're practically nothing," says Richard Allen, an associate professor of earth and planetary science at the University of California, Berkeley. Part of the reason can be attributed to the U.S.'s superior earthquake preparation - California has strict building codes that are designed to prevent structures from collapse, and events like the Nov. 13 ShakeOut teach individuals what to do in an emergency. For the most part, though, the low death tolls can be attributed to luck. "We haven't had a big earthquake beneath one of our metropolitan...