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When the doctors started looking for an insurer to replace APC, none of the mainstream malpractice insurers offered coverage. One smaller firm came up with a package for nearly $100,000 a doctor (up from about $14,000 only two years earlier), plus $500,000 a year for "tail" coverage, to insure the practice for any suits that might arise from care provided before the new policy took effect. The doctors couldn't afford it. So after one of them left the practice to try to go it alone, the rest enlisted their state senator, who persuaded their original carrier...
...student group’s current board, she says, came at the “tail end” of the dilemma...
...It’s quite possible that Harvard will start to think of the Institute as a place for sabbaticals for their faculty or as a means of recruitment,” she says. “It’s important that Radcliffe not become only the tail that’s wagged by Harvard...
...Qaeda cells exist in Saudi Arabia, U.S. officials say, and at least one is active. Moreover, the Saudi royals derive legitimacy from the country's fundamentalist clergy, many of whom may resent a crackdown on al-Qaeda. "It's like they've got a tiger by the tail," says a U.S. official, "and they're not sure what's better: letting go or holding on tighter." --By Unmesh Kher. Reported by Elaine Shannon, Timothy J. Burger and Scott MacLeod
...been a number of past instances in which light aircraft have flown too close to nuclear plants, and while the aircraft have turned out to be pilots who have flown off course or simply been curious about nuclear plants, all such sightings must be reported to the FAA by tail number immediately...