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...good place to begin comparison shopping. Data encryption is crucial. Customer service can be maddening. And although there have been horror stories--one storage site abruptly folded last year, leaving customers with little time to get their data--using the cloud is still a smart way to add an extra layer of security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cloud Storage | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson also received an extra push last week with the return of junior forward Liza Ryabkina, who recovered from a knee injury. Ryabkina proved to be a valuable player in her first game back, recording one assist and scoring the game-winning goal against Dartmouth last Wednesday...

Author: By Renee G. Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 2 Minnesota To Test Crimson at Home | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...turns out, however, lawmakers are reluctant to cede the power to steer extra money to hospitals in their own districts, and the House rejected the commission idea outright. While the Senate bill does contain a version of the commission, it has become weaker at every turn in the process. Under a deal to win hospitals' support for the bill, the Senate Finance Committee agreed they would be exempt from the commission's recommendations at least through 2019; doctors, hospices and medical-equipment suppliers would be beyond its reach entirely. Who is left? Maybe no one. "The exception for hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Care Reform: What Happened to Cost Controls? | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...past, SIG has provided federal dollars (up to about $500 million) to failing schools in order to implement changes. Of the five SIG restructuring options available to such underperforming schools, the most commonly chosen simply requires schools to make some change, any change - such as a new curriculum or extra training for teachers. Weak sauce, in other words. With this new $3.5 billion, districts (which will compete for cash obtained by states through the application of a formula) will have to show that they are ready for and capable of implementing one of four rather dramatic strategies: (1) replacing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling Out America's Worst Schools: A $3.5 Billion Plan | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...circuit TV cameras and hire armed guards. Some even went so far as to put snipers on their roofs. Schools like Ali's can afford such measures, she says. But government schools are out of luck. The federal government is doing little, critics say, to help pay for the extra security measures it says are necessary for schools to remain open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pakistani Taliban's War on Schoolchildren | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

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