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Projections like that could easily swallow up the $160 billion the industry has in reserve for catastrophes. A hurricane that squarely hit both Miami and Fort Lauderdale could cost insurers as much as $100 billion. Even a small strengthening of storm winds could produce dramatically higher insurance claims. By one estimate, a wind-speed increase of only five knots would have doubled the $3 billion in losses incurred during a 1987 storm in Europe...
...form" (towards representation), "mediator's (towards cognition), "vessels" (towards decoration), and "tools" (towards function). These are the basic pillars, it seems of the condition of being an object, and in between the four major "moments" there lies "fetishism, aura, measurement, and embellishment." This might seem like a lot to swallow on a leisurely visit to the Fogg to check out some paintings, and the preponderence of jargon in a visual exhibit is certainly a turn-off, but Dilnot's choice to include these guides (the "four moments" are writ large on the walls of the gallery) is actually very helpful...
American ice dancer Elizabeth Punsalan learned that last week, days before she left for Lillehammer with her husband and partner Jerod Swallow. Her father was stabbed to death in his Michigan home, allegedly by her mentally disturbed brother. Speed skater Kristen Talbot learned it when she risked her physical ability to compete by giving a bone-marrow transplant last Jan. 11 to her brother Jason, gravely ill with aplastic anemia. Luger Cammy Myler, already chagrined at the dislocated shoulder last September that dimmed her medal chances, felt her injury diminish in meaning when her brother and sporting mentor...
Reductions in cherished social programs will be just as tough for many Clintonites to swallow. As Cabinet Secretaries have trooped into the Oval Office to meet with the President in recent weeks, each has faced major disappointments. To raise extra cash to finance AIDS research, childhood immunizations, Head Start and increased job training, Clinton plans to reduce funding for everything from public housing to mass transit to assistance for the poor to help heat their homes. All told, the budget calls for 118,000 fewer civilian workers on the federal payroll by Sept. 30, 1995, than when Clinton took office...
...SWORD SWALLOWING MADE EASY (from a turn-of-the-century pamphlet): Use a peacock feather dipped in oil to tickle the throat, which helps you become familiar with the sensation. Swallow a rubber tube -- when the sword is swallowed, it will be encased in the tube. ((Make)) an imitation sword . . . out of licorice covered with tinfoil or aluminum paint; the licorice sword is swallowed and a real one produced from behind the back, giving "the impression the sword has passed entirely through you." Hire somebody to do it for you, as it may save you much annoyance...