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...moving dialectic and, as the hip-hop heads say, dropping science on the folks present. He is known for his signature style of speech, which creates a hospitable and communal atmosphere. In listening, we were brothers and sisters, regardless of race, nationality, political affiliation, religion or any social construct. The lecture was refreshing in that it was not, by any measure, didactic. At the same time, West was not there merely to provide an entertaining song and dance for those in attendance. Although West’s demeanor was jovial, his comedy was deeply rooted in a powerful message. West...
Vivius lets patients construct their personal provider networks with 22 specialists, from a primary-care physician to a cardiologist. HealthAllies provides a wide selection of discounted services not typically covered, from laser surgery and acupuncture to vision care and in-vitro fertilization. MyHealthBank, which has partnered with Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield to focus on small employers in the Northwest, hopes eventually to offer consumers a debit card to have their visits to the doctor automatically paid out of their accounts. In such a competitive market, says Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger, doctors will finally offer services that consumers really...
...cargo a year and cut shipping time from Los Angeles to Vladivostok as much as two weeks. It's an attainable feat: the strait is only 60 miles wide at its narrowest point (twice as wide as the English Channel Tunnel, which took seven years and $15 billion to construct). But to make the Bering tunnel accessible on the North American side, connecting lines would have to be laid from the strait to Fairbanks, Alaska (about 750 miles of track), and then to British Columbia, Canada (an additional 900 miles). On the Russian side, at least 2,000 miles...
...Walkers can hire a guide, but it's almost better to set out to get lost. From your hotel, pick a path along one of the terrace tops and simply follow it. By switching course no more than half a dozen times, walkers should be able to construct a largely flat circuit through layered rice and tobacco fields, along steep riverbanks and past villages set in the rolling, verdant landscape. This is true Marlboro Country. The red and white murals of cigarette packs painted on the sides of drying towers show where farmers dream of sending their truck-wheel-sized...
Bush wants to construct a testing site in Alaska where various radars will be able to monitor individual targets heading towards the U.S.––just the sort of conditions we need to determine the workability of our technology...