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...without regard to cost and those who wanted Small Government without regard to need." Yet Big-Government needs dominated his team's public presentations. Cabinet Secretaries rushed to the cameras to boast of increases for children's nutrition, AIDS research, food safety--an agenda that would make Bill Clinton beam. Bush hit the road to boom the budget's 11.5% increase in funding for the Department of Education, which now secures its place as the third largest Cabinet department. Only a few years ago, those skinflints "who wanted Small Government without regard to need" (also known as Republicans...
...codes for each procedure--thus eliminating a common error that usually results in drawn-out disputes with insurers. The business got a boost in February when the nation's three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) announced that they were building a standardized network, dubbed RXHub, to let doctors instantly beam e-prescriptions to client pharmacies...
...civil. Check out the latest in crowd-control tech: beanbag guns, Spidey-style Webshots that launch Kevlar nets, PepperBall shooters and tasers that fire probes charged with a 50,000-volt shock. The heavy-duty stuff is yet to come: the U.S. military is developing a microwave gun whose beam feels like burning, and it's toying with sonic weapons that emit sound waves strong enough to knock you over or vibrate your internal organs to the point of nausea. By the way, Quiet Riot is still around; catch them touring in Mexico...
...killed in the explosion. The bomber, Timothy McVeigh, is scheduled to die by lethal injection May 16 at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind. With seating for survivors and relatives limited to eight, a victims' group had sought to force the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to beam the execution by closed-circuit TV to an Oklahoma auditorium where they could watch en masse. Some 250 survivors and relatives say they would...
Current top-down methods of chip production use electron beam lithography, an expensive process that involves etching silicon into smaller and smaller pieces. Such methods will eventually hit a limit at which further miniaturization would entail extreme expense...