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...Kodak was producing only one Kodachrome film run - a mile-long sheet cut into 20,000 rolls - a year, and the number of centers able to process it had declined precipitously. Today, Steinle's Kansas store processes all of Kodak's Kodachrome film - if you drop a roll off at your local Wal-Mart, it will be developed at Dwayne's Photo - and though it is the only center left in the world, the company processes only a few hundred rolls...
Elsewhere in the issue, Kate Pickert reports on the growing trend of seeing your health-care provider where you do your shopping. Supermarkets, pharmacies and even big-box stores like Wal-Mart are including freestanding clinics where you can drop in without an appointment to get a sore throat checked or a child's earache treated--all for as little as $60 a visit. Making health-care cheap, easy and available like this prevents small problems from getting big. Be sure to also read John Cloud's story about how we can head off psychological problems by treating them...
...stainless-steel vault built to resemble a high-end refrigerator. A cute little chimney vents smoke from the middle. The "gravity feed," Love pointed out, is nothing more than a long chute. It works much like a cat-food dispenser; you fill it with charcoal and smoke woods, which drop down as the lower stuff burns out, so you can set your temperature at a nice 250°F (about 120°C) and walk away for 12 hours. Hillbilly-type smokers require a lot more tending. (Watch TIME's video about the Viking smoker...
...information about economic fundamentals," Summers said just after the crash, "they've got to be disabused of that notion by Monday's 500-point movement." The crash also demonstrated that prices didn't follow the statistical model of a random walk--if they did, a 20% one-day market drop like that of 1987 should happen only once in billions upon billions of years...
...unfriendly. Which is why Floridians voted in 2000 to build a high-speed bullet-train service between Miami, Tampa and Orlando. By 2004, however, then-governor Jeb Bush, who had insisted the estimated $6 billion cost would in reality top $20 billion, had persuaded Florida voters to drop the idea...