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...Beat everyone else to large multinational companies. Froehlich says that eventually individual investors are going to feel as though they've been penalized for sitting on the sidelines in money-market accounts earning 3%. "When they feel penalized, then the first stop into the equity market is the large-cap multinational company," he says. "You don't come off the sidelines and go to some small biotech company whose name you don't even know...
Fortunately, Thompson has already "read" many of the records that are now gravely endangered. From the Quelccaya ice cap in southern Peru, for example, he has reconstructed a 1,500-year sequence of swings from wet to dry that eerily track the rise and fall of ancient civilizations. From glaciers on opposite sides of the world, some in the Andes, others in the Himalayas, he has built a strong case that the tropics were far colder 20,000 years ago, at the height of the last ice age, than most scientists thought possible...
...Earlier this year, for instance, Thompson unveiled compelling evidence that ice across the tropics is disappearing at an unprecedented rate. Kilimanjaro, he reported, sports 80% less ice cover today than it did in 1912; a third of that loss has happened within the past decade. The Quelccaya ice cap is also receding at an alarming clip and may disappear entirely...
...According to the compromise, the specifics of which have yet to be disclosed, patients will be able to sue their HMOs in state court, but only under federal rules. The liability cap, which was the second major point of contention between the two sides, will be raised to $1.5 million, a figure that may be introduced only in the most extreme cases. Norwood?s concessions will be the subject of House debate Thursday. Republican leaders express confidence the measure will be voted on by the end of the day, but some House Democrats are hinting the bill...
...know that the President got Norwood to move from a $5 million cap on liabilities to a $1.5 million cap, which is a lot closer to the White House?s initial $500,000 limit. So that?s a pretty substantial compromise on Norwood?s part...