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Recently 70 prominent figures in the field of health care came together to call on Congress to create an entirely new system of medical justice. Because neither lay juries nor most judges have the technical knowledge to weigh complex medical evidence, some of these experts believe the most effective solution is to create special medical courts--just as we have separate courts for taxes, patents, workers' compensation and vaccine injuries. Staffed with expert judges--and probably without juries--these tribunals could effectively screen claims, make rulings and award reasonable compensation for actual economic losses, plus pain-and-suffering damages based...
...Pathfinder's rover was a toy-size machine. Barely 30 cm high and 60 cm long and weighing just under 11 kg, it operated for three months and in all that time toddled across a stretch of Martian terrain little bigger than a football field. The new rovers are much closer to true space cars. Measuring 1.5 m tall from their wheels to the top of their camera masts, the 2003 models weigh about 180 kg each and should be able to cover up to 915 m in their 90 days of life - including many days they will spend standing...
Find out what gives you goose bumps or chills and follow it through, allowing enough space to divert and reformulate when the vicissitudes of life get complex. If many things give you a thrill, of course, you will need to do some winnowing (here pragmatic concerns weigh far more heavily than they did when I graduated). I remember a professor at Berkeley poking his head in the TA room door saying “Anyone want a job at Yale?” Things are rather tighter now. My own research explores well-being across the life-span...
...David Longo, spokesman at the FMCSA. Next, go to safersys.org to see a mover's safety record for the past two years. If your mover ranks above average for the number of times its vehicles or drivers have been put "out of service" (for failing an inspection at a weigh station), look elsewhere...
...seated at the table with George W. Bush in the Roosevelt Room along with nine other economic writers, at Bush's invite? Where was the White House press corps? Nowhere in sight - and that's the point. The president wants to change the subject. We weren't likely to weigh down this meeting with questions about Saddam, Sunnis or Shiites...