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...routine medical need, you should probably make haste to a clinic. On a quality scale of 0% to 100%, the clinics finished first with a 63.6% while urgent-care centers and doctor's offices followed within a couple of points. Habitually overcrowded emergency rooms came in last at a distant 55.1%. When it came to fees, the results were even more dramatic. For the various kinds of services studied, the average visit to a retail clinic cost $110, versus $156 for urgent care and $166 for a family doc. As for ERs? A cool $570. While even...
...Time disparity is also reflected in an observation made by a classmate at our 50th reunion. At the time we started, the Spanish-American War was as remote as World War II is to the current class. The Spanish-American War seems impossibly distant. One has to conclude that WWII seems that way to your class. Consider life as a one-way street. Although one’s choices of concentration, vocation, and life partner are not necessarily irrevocable, they are not limitless. Give these choices some rational thought. A degree from Harvard won’t protect you from...
...Cemetery holds that John F. Kennedy paid a visit sometime close to Veterans Day in 1963. As he stood near the mansion that once was home to Robert E. Lee, taking in the sweeping view of the Potomac River down below and the National Mall rolling out toward the distant Capitol, he remarked, "I could stay here forever." (Read TIME's memorial coverage: "Gathering to Pay Last Respects...
...high the moon" - she extends the "high" into a sighing "hiiiiigh," then softens "the moon" into almost a whisper of regret. The diminuendo is a subtle reminder that, for all its drive and bounce, this is a song of longing. Until the lover returns, the moon is just a distant prop for melancholy...
...clocks carrying the official U.S. time.) But if a computer doesn't have an active Internet connection, or if time-synching is somehow turned off, a computer's clock can run askew. In addition, there's often a short but significant lag that occurs when a computer queries a distant time server, which is mainly a problem on company computers. While many companies have tried operating their own time servers as a way to increase accuracy, in many cases they don't do enough to maintain them...