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Hypochondriacs don't harm just themselves; they clog the whole health-care system. Although they account for only about 6% of the patients who visit doctors every year, they tend to burden their physicians with frequent visits that take up inordinate amounts of time. According to one estimate, hypochondria racks up some $20 billion in wasted medical resources in the U.S. alone. And the problem may be getting worse, thanks to the proliferation of medical information on the Internet. "They go on the Web," says Dr. Arthur Barsky, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital...
...former American foes. During a trip to Washington this summer, sources tell TIME, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic pledged to send up to 1,000 troops to aid American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S., which is trying hard to persuade allies to share some of the military burden in Iraq, quickly agreed. The initial deployment: a mix of 250 army officers and members of the gendarmerie. "We don't need peacekeepers," says a U.S. official involved in the deal. "It's going to be a combat mission." Preparations are under way to send a Serbian battalion to Kandahar...
...felt like I had 14 students and I had to make sure their time was being used properly,” Franken says. “I felt this tremendous burden at first to make sure everyone had a good experience. Finally the students said, ‘Al, cool...
...they certainly aren’t as effective in that regard, so the burden will be on the Harvard secondary to smother the Husky receivers if the front seven succeeds in blocking off the backfield...
...administration’s response to this crisis? Siphon cash from the federal government’s general fund so that the burden for cleaning up pollution falls on taxpayers. It is enough to bring even beginning economics students to tears...