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...project has drawn support from a variety of partners, including Dell, Google, Aetna and numerous hospitals. "Our goal long-term is to get the prescription pads out of doctors' hands, to get them working on computers," says Scott Wells, a Dell vice-president of marketing. Google is designing a custom search engine with NEPSI to assist doctors looking for health data. Insurance companies such as Aetna have pledged to provide incentives for physicians using e-prescription systems...
...system of approving offset projects under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. With a common set of rules, voluntary offsetting could see its ranks of followers - and the market's credibility - grow further. That's fine, say many environmental advocates, but they also say customers should be focusing more on cutting emissions in the first place. "Offsets can be seen as an easy way out for governments, businesses and individuals to continue polluting without making changes to their behavior," say Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and WWF in their recent report on offsetting...
...mine and Abby’s younger sisters.” And Vestis hopes this will inspire more student designers to get involved. Case in point: Standing at the entrance to the show was budding freshman shirtmaker Antonio A. Pino ’10, who had several of his custom made shirts in the show. Spread out on an elegant looking table were his powder blue and exquisite pink herringbone spread-collar shirts, wrapped with ribbon and placed delicately in a silver sheen box. His shirts go for $90 to $120. No word on his sales, but hey, the designers...
...hours to complete and is built entirely by hand (hence the $49,500 price tag). The pine frame is held together through a dovetail-jointing method, requiring no screws. The main and overlay mattresses are layered blends of cotton, wool and horsehair. Each Vividus bed is custom-made and bears the signature of the Hstens craftsman who built...
...American Christmas card," Prang started manufacturing cards for the American market in 1875. The practice of exchanging greeting cards with holiday newsletters during Christmas time quickly became popular, as it remains so to this day. While as early as the 1840s some Americans were already sending out cards, the custom grew greatly with Prang’s efforts...