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That's the international standard most private and government-run health insurance plans worldwide use to determine whether to cover a new medical procedure. More simply, insurance companies calculate that to make a treatment worth its cost, it must guarantee one year of "quality life" for $50,000 or less. New research, however, would argue that that figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Value of a Human Life: $129,000 | 5/20/2008 | See Source »

...last 500 meters they had the sprint to end all sprints,” Bosworth said. “They closed more than a length of distance which is really a really amazing amount to cover in that length of time. Two more stokes we would have passed Cornell but everybody only gets 2000 meters. That was disappointing...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Joyce, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Women Vie for NCAA Spot | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

...behind him. After Obama's visit this week, Gelber argues, the state's Clinton-Obama tensions will dissolve: "You're going to see everyone pivot and look toward November." But Obama can't waste any more time. Florida is a big, complicated state with a lot of ground to cover, and he doesn't have that much time between now and November to get it fired up and ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Tries to Make Up With Florida | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

...That's the caption for a cartoon of an exasperated Mohammed that ran on the cover of Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical weekly. It was the winner of a contest the magazine held in support of the Danish magazine that was threatened by Islamic fundamentalists after publishing an illustration of the Prophet with a bomb in his turban. Inside that issue of Charlie Hebdo were 12 other cartoons, including one in which four terrorist whose bodies are still smoking from a bomb blast are arriving in heaven, and Mohammed says "Wait, we've run out of virgins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes Gets Real | 5/17/2008 | See Source »

...some sort of release before someone stumbles on it?" Katz asked. Bob Filner, chair of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, saw criminal negligence. "The pattern is deny, deny, deny," he told Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Peake. "Then when facts seemingly come to disagree with the denial, you cover up, cover up, cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Care of Our Vets | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

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