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Then there’s medical malpractice claims. In states known to award high punitive damages like Florida, general practitioners must carry hundreds of thousands of dollars of malpractice insurance, and the rates are rising in some places at higher than 20 percent per year. Doctors, who still make only a few hundred thousand dollars per year, are being driven out of the business. Earlier this month, 600 doctors in Texas closed their offices for a day to protest this treatment, all the result of lawyers who know a well-insured doctor to be a sitting duck. Even...
...dangers he faced. But given what I have just explained, this unfortunately isn’t possible with my creation of time travel. Luckily, however, I think we will eventually encounter advanced civilizations on other planets through space travel. So perhaps they created a time machine a thousand years ago, and this would allow us to travel to points in our own distant past. In that case, I would love to visit ancient Rome as it was and see how people lived. See what Plato looked like. The future doesn’t excite me as much as the past...
After extending their reach from only a few thousand Americans 30 years ago to about 20 million today, employee-ownership plans have fallen in public esteem. The allure of stock options has faded along with the dotcoms that made them sexy. Enron's collapse has shown the danger of workers' betting their retirement savings on their employer's stock. And tension between unions and management at struggling United Airlines has called into question what anyone gained when workers bought a majority of shares in the company eight years ago. Worried, Congress is weighing bills that would limit how companies...
Person of the Week I'M BACK The Chinese government once said he was a "whore" and a "sinner for a thousand generations." But when former Hong Kong Guv and current E.U. Commissioner of External Affairs Chris Patten visited Beijing last week, both sides forgave, forgot and talked about bridging East and West...
...meters, Brown advanced nearly a boat length. Through the middle thousand meters Radcliffe moved back two seats, but with 500 meters to go the Bears pulled away...