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...Cap: Whenever tensions are running high on the international scene, all we'll have to do is launch a few million of the cameras into the main missile corridors. The Ruskies won't be able to get anything through that mess...
...Cap: Without any film? No, what we were thinking of doing is sending them into orbit...
...Cap: No, sir. The idea is that a missile moving six miles per second would destroy itself on impact with one of the Kodak cameras...
...change was only one of many that swept Haiti last week. As the country's 6 million citizens adjusted to the realization that Baby Doc was gone for good, they exulted in what the Roman Catholic bishop of Cap Haitien called "our second independence." And although the annual pre-Lent Mardi Gras celebration was canceled for fear that the swelling crowds would become disorderly, there were noisy, exuberant gatherings across the land...
...legal reforms that the doctors want, and the lawyers oppose, are technical but important. For example, the A.M.A. proposes eliminating punitive damages, and seeks a cap on "noneconomic" damages awarded for pain and suffering or mental anguish, which it says account for 80% of the dollars paid over the $100,000 level. It also wants a victim's compensation from such sources as medical or unemployment insurance deducted from court awards. Most bitingly, the doctors have called for a slidingscale limit on "contingency fee" arrangements, whereby lawyers take on a case for a sizable share (often one-third...