Some excerpts from the long Turpin v. Charlotte Latin Schools, Inc., decided today by the N.C. Supreme Court, in ...

In “Biological War,” Annie Jacobsen imagines society collapsing from a man-made plague—part of a wave of such prophecies. But what do we miss when we try to predict the future?

Sam Newman discusses the concept of progressive collapse in civil engineering and how it applies to distributed systems.

ELECTROMECHANICAL analogies and their use for the analysis of mechanical and electromechanical systems form the subject of an interesting paper (J. Inst. Elec. Eng., 92, Pt. 2, No. 52; April 1945) by ...

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Builder's risk and other first-party coverages have traditionally excluded loss or damage caused by "faulty workmanship." A principal point of contention in this area has been whether the exclusion ...

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