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Allstate faced a strong backlash from state officials when it proposed ending hail and wind coverage in Louisiana...
...they going to honor what's been the typical [differentiation] between wind and water? Sometimes that means where risks have gotten much higher than they used to be, we simply can't continue to write down there. For a while, Florida had a thousand families a day moving in, home values have escalated rapidly, and yet the rate increases we're allowed to charge [by state regulators] have not kept pace with that. So we've made some hard decisions and scaled back our coverage in Florida, the Gulf Coast and in some of the exposed areas in New York...
...game show is impossible to explain. But it's dramatic. Unfortunately I think it's gonna be a hit, and I'll wind up killing myself...
...these first stars were, on average, gigantic--at least 25 times as massive as the sun and ranging as much as 100 times as massive, if not more. A star that big burns very hot, shining perhaps a million times brighter than the sun and generating a wind of particles that pushes the surrounding gases outward, keeping them from collapsing on their own to form new stars. The very first galaxies in the young universe may well have been microgalaxies, as theorist Mike Norman of the University of California at San Diego calls them: each one a single, huge, superhot...
...after going to prison. And after the late-'80s insider-trading Wall Street sweep that, among other things, sent Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky to prison, a number of convictions were overturned, including that of onetime Boesky associate John Mulheren. "When you're more aggressive, you're going to wind up with more losses," says Peter Henning, a law professor at Wayne State University...