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...thus reducing the up and down motion that makes a bundle seem to weigh more on every downward bounce. Spence suggests that the same concept could be applied to improve the performance of artificial legs. "It's not crazy to say you'd be able to use this to build better prosthetic limbs for people. If you're trying to build a prosthetic limb to handle a bumpy environment, this should help," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets of Jockeying: Why Horses Go Fast | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...income individuals and those with complex health needs and has an existing delivery, financing and administrative structure," says the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. "Medicaid coverage for low-income adults could help establish a strong floor of coverage for the low-income population, upon which additional expansion efforts could build." And in some ways, it would be easier for the states to administer an income-based program, rather than one in which they have to keep track of whether recipients fit into a set of multiple categories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicaid and the States: Health-Care Reform's Next Hurdle | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...Indian company, however, aims to leverage low production costs to build simple, cheap vehicles and sell them in India, Europe and, within five years, the U.S. The Reva, branded the G-Wiz in Europe, costs about $12,200 there and about $7,000 in India. The pint-size commuter vehicles are powered by lead-acid batteries, which provide about 50 miles (80 km) of driving per charge. Top speed is about 50 m.p.h. (Read "From India: First Nano's $2,000 Car. Now the $7,800 Nano Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Made in India: The $12,000 Electric Car | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...Even if you build it, they don't always come. Up to two-thirds of birdhouses fail to attract a self-supporting colony of birds, estimates Kok. "We don't really understand them," he says. "They are wild animals. We find that they like to stay in dark areas. But at one hotel in Malacca they are nesting in bright light." Lucky producers can harvest two to four pounds of nests a month, worth up to $500 per pound ($1,100 per kg). Middlemen are buying up all the nests they can source, usually as quietly as possible. "They come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bird Bonanza | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...would have been different if the deal was proposed by a private company in the West. I believe the root of the problem lies in the differences between capitalism and communism. I have spent 30 years of my life living on both sides, and I honestly believe that we build our societies using the same good values. We just speak different languages. Yongfeng Shang, Rosebery, Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

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