Word: conditioner
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This recliner with electronic biosensors can measure things like weight and blood pressure when a person just plops in it to watch television. The readings are transmitted by phone line to a control center where a nurse reviews them and can chat with the patient about his condition from the...
Since Thanksgiving is the day we count our blessings instead of our carbs, it is a ripe moment to talk about hunger. Or perhaps, to talk about how we talk about hunger. When the government released its annual survey on Household Food Security in the United States last week, as...
When the old curmudgeon spoke, he sounded as dewy as a Homecoming Queen. "I'm very fortunate in my career," he said. I've never had to direct a film I didn't choose or develop. My love for filmmaking has given me an entree to the world and to...
Now some states are trying to bring the mentally ill back under state control. Kendra’s Laws, which force non-hospitalized individuals to take medication to control some condition defined by the government as mental illness, are just one more chapter in this long history of state-controlled...
It is simply not possible to adequately describe the importance of Milton Friedman. In the the 1950s and 1960s, most men and women of stature simply assumed that state control of the individual and of the economy was inevitable and desirable. Friedman, then a professor of economics at the University...