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...matter of debate. Premiums are set according to a state's loss-data history, not a single event. Insurance firms developed more sophisticated modeling techniques after Hurricane Andrew. Now they are able to predict with greater accuracy the frequency and potential damage of storms like Katrina and spread their risk across the country accordingly. While residents in hurricane-prone areas can expect rate hikes, "people in Alaska won't be paying for this," says Robert Hartwig, chief economist with the Insurance Information Institute...
...gives the impression of significant changes having occurred within a single generation, a misunderstanding often used by antievolutionists. But a species is a snapshot that represents a lineage at a convenient point. Every child has differences from its parents, and over a great number of generations some changes will spread through a population, owing to selective breeding. The fishapod is a valuable find as a missing link?another snapshot in a continuum of change. Robert Fraser Kingston, Canada...
...past, the Hilles Library suffered from low attendance, presumably due to its location. But Amadi P. Anene ’08, a member of the Committee on College Life Subcommittee on Student Organization Space, predicted the space will be popular with Quad students, and may spread to river residents as well...
...charitable undertaking was a wholly unsexy attempt to correct this—a ballot initiative to change the way trustees were selected, from at-large to single-member district elections, so that trustees might be spread more evenly across town...
...grown up taking your Sunday lunches at Bill Clinton's great-uncle's house, you would have developed a weight problem too. The former President's beloved Uncle Buddy knew how to put out a spread that included a ham or a roast, corn bread, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, peas, lima beans, fruit pies and bottomless flagons of iced tea. If the future President arrived early enough, he even got to help turn the crank on the ice cream maker...