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Americans spend $23,000 a second on medical care, more than $2 billion a day, $733 billion a year. That is nearly twice what they spent seven years ago, including annual increases of 10% during the past two years. For the Federal Government, medical costs have become the fastest-growing major item, increasing at more than 8% annually at a time when inflation is only about 5%. For corporate America, health care has become a crippling expense. General Motors laid out $3.2 billion last year, more than it spent on steel, to provide medical coverage for 1.9 million employees, dependents...
...come to Moreno Valley because a home in more established California cities can cost as much as a space shuttle. In "MoVal" a typical four-bedroom house on a 7,500- sq.-ft. lot costs $140,000. The affordable homes and quality of life have made Moreno Valley the fastest growing city in America...
...astonishment of its citizens, who have maintained a hangdog pride in being off the beaten path, Fresno has become one of the fastest-growing major cities in America. In Fresno people had always felt that they were in California but not of it -- a little bit of Iowa under the palm trees. Now their sleepy farm town is growing nearly as fast as crops planted in the dull, rich land of the surrounding San Joaquin Valley...
CITIES: What it's like in two of America's fastest growing boomtowns, Fresno and Moreno Valley...
...sooner had scientists and engineers discovered the intellectual benefits of supercomputing than they found themselves bumping into the computational limits of the current machines. Everything they wanted to do, it seemed, required 1,000 times more computer power than the fastest machines could provide. Today's models, for example, are not able to determine the structure of a protein from a sequence of genes. They can map the earth's atmosphere or its ocean currents but not the interactions between the two. They can predict hurricanes, but not such smaller meteorological events as thunderstorms and tornadoes...