Word: affords
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...better or worse, the driving force behind that revolution is pure economics. Gamma-radiation knives, wondrous devices that focus tiny cobalt beams precisely on microscopic brain malignancies and malformations, cost $3 million each but may ultimately reduce the need for other costly therapies and thus afford a net saving to society. Sophisticated scanning devices--computerized axial tomography (CAT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear-imaging systems--cost hospitals millions of dollars, and patients (or their insurers) are typically charged thousands for their use. But by pinpointing hard-to-find tumors and other signs of disease, these machines save invaluable time...
...year, putting them out of reach, for now, of all but the wealthiest or best-insured patients. Any long-term solution for AIDS will also have to take into account the estimated 20 million people living outside industrialized countries who are infected with HIV. Most of them cannot afford basic health care let alone high-tech treatments, and most are infected with a different subtype of HIV than those commonly studied in the U.S. and Europe. Nor can the scourge be conquered without a vaccine, even though scientists are still unable to answer a fundamental question: What must such...
...England Journal of Medicine, more Americans are eating a healthy diet now than 30 years ago. In fact, according to researchers from the University of North Carolina, just about the only people who ate right in the mid-1960s were poor black people, who simply couldn't afford the marbled steaks and high-protein meals that were then considered the most nutritious. According to survey data collected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 16% of poor black people in 1965 ate a healthy diet, compared with less than 5% of high-income whites...
Employees at Peter Kiewit Sons, a construction giant in Omaha, Nebraska, build tunnels, off-shore drilling platforms and hydroelectric-power dams. A lot of these folks can now afford to have things built for them--say, a new house or a swimming pool. Some 1,000 Kiewit workers and retirees reaped an estimated $3.3 billion windfall last week when the long-distance phone company WorldCom agreed to acquire MFS Communications, a provider of local phone service, for about $12.4 billion in stock. The deal completes WorldCom's strategy of becoming a vertically integrated phone company that will challenge the Baby...
...reading and turning wood-pulp pages may strike some as hopelessly passe, the informational equivalent of the fondue party. Two of the fall's more interesting books argue, perhaps unsurprisingly but also quite persuasively, against this view; they are about books and the wealth of contemplative pleasures they afford...