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Until recently, economists had done shockingly little work in this area. "Nobody had looked at the flip side, which is, Can there be costs?" says Thomas Philippon, a young Frenchman who teaches finance at New York University's Stern School of Business. "That is because it's harder to measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Bankers Worth Their Big Paychecks? | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

Maybe. On the other hand, Pakistan's civilian officials have hardly done much to improve lives when they have had the chance. It was governmental neglect that enabled militants to establish a foothold in the tribal areas in the first place. Unless the government can follow the army's offensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan Doubles Down Against the Taliban | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

The most liberal and far-reaching version, passed by two House committees, would tie the rates the public plan pays health-care providers to what Medicare reimburses. Given that Medicare reimbursement rates can be 30% lower than those paid by private insurers, such a system could be a powerful one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Career of the Public Option | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

What she can probably pass is a different version, approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, that would establish a public option that operates more like a traditional insurance company, with the Health and Human Services Secretary negotiating with health-care providers to determine how much it would reimburse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Career of the Public Option | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

Gelato is the ultimate refinement of a Mediterranean flavored-ice tradition that supposedly dates back to the ancient Egyptians. In the past half-century, Italians have designed machines - engineered and produced in the same region as Ferraris and Lamborghinis - that can produce ever tinier crystals of ice, allowing for less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gelato U. | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

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