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...environment. Significant concerns remain over the cost of implementing such a large project. “There is a question of scale, if what we’re trying to do is protect a bay then it is likely feasible, but as you start moving up to the Barrier Reef and ocean, the amounts of mass handling is enormous,” said Ken Caldeira, a global ecology researcher at Stanford...
...class. “Our top group is now eight to ten runners rather than two to three,” Saretsky said. The team’s improvement over the course of the season was evident at Albany, where Olson, Richardson and Ives broke the eighteen-minute barrier for the first time in their careers. The rookies led their team to a first-place finish at the meet. “Training-wise, a lot of us have improved this year,” Olson said. That improvement will be crucial over the next two races, as Harvard will...
...Even in Japan, nobody's idea of a struggling country, cost is a barrier. In 2000 the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare called for the introduction of mammography for all women over 50. As of 2005, only 7% of women follow that recommendation. The price tag of a single machine is about $262,000, and a mammogram generally costs a patient $90 out of her own pocket. Says Dr. Fujio Kasumi, breast-cancer chief at Juntendo University Hospital: "People don't do [tests], thinking it's a waste of money...
...about HPV and make an informed choice whether or not to get the vaccine. To judge how much our campus knew about human papillomavirus (HPV), we conducted a survey with undergraduates at the College. The most important conclusion from the study was that cost was by far the biggest barrier to vaccine uptake...
...These costs, unfortunately, aren’t just a minor inconvenience—they’re a significant barrier to entry. These exorbitant fees effectively discourage students from low-income backgrounds from becoming doctors, reducing both the diversity and size of the applicant pool. This is a problem that disproportionately affects blacks and Hispanics—minorities that are already grossly underrepresented in health care...