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...Monterey County police department is still actively investigating the case, seeking out witnesses and information. The basic facts of the case—including how many pieces of art were stolen, the valuation of each piece, insurance information, and whether the art in question actually exists—have not been answered, Richards said.The department is seeking out potential motives Kennaugh and Amadio might have had for filing an erroneous claim. Amadio told the AP that the art stolen was only insured...
Eliot, as most Houses, has basic weightlifting equipment. It also has a few perks, like a CD/Tape player, a punching bag, and a good supply of exercise mats. They also have amusing posters on the wall of House Master Lino Pertile: "Lino is not as strong as you, put your weights back." Classy...
...working exchange and many of the insurance-market reforms called for in federal legislation (such as guaranteeing coverage to anyone who applies and prohibiting premium pricing based on health status). Cantwell based her amendment on a program that already exists in her home state of Washington; called Basic Health Plan, it pools non-Medicaid-eligible low-income residents, steering them into less costly managed-care plans. Critics point out that premiums for these low-income residents have still risen dramatically since the program launched in the early 1990s, but Cantwell and Baucus say they have been assured informally...
...When we started the work, of course, we were really just interested in the very basic question about DNA replication, how the ends of chromosomes are maintained,” Szostak told The New York Times yesterday. “At the time we had no idea there would be all these later implications...
...most convincing writers on this subject was the American political scientist Barrington Moore. In his work on the social origins of dictatorships, Moore coined the phrase "No bourgeois, no democracy." It may be true that a middle class is necessary for the establishment of basic democratic rights, such as the vote. But the events of the past two decades have laid to rest any notion that the enrichment of a country provides an automatic impulse toward greater liberty. Remember the talk, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, about democracy arriving hand in hand with free markets? As people became...