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...heroes. No glamorous moon to go to, no John Glenn. All the same, in a nation where 44 million people don't have medical insurance, and where a lot of the insured aren't happy with the care they get, there are probably more people rooting for an HMO fix than were ever waiting for a lunar landing. When voters tell pollsters that health care is among their top election-year concerns, that's because the frailty of the body is one issue that touches everybody--aging baby boomers, their vulnerable children, their fragile parents...
...after the takeover, the Times ran an editorial noting that corporate behemoths are a danger in a country that permits them to buy influence. Its solution: "The remedy to this political threat is not to scuttle mergers but rather to fix campaign-contribution laws...
...down version of the rigged show from the '50s. But it's refreshingly unafraid of its past, choosing to copy its set design from the Robert Redford movie about the scandal. "If anything, our history helps us," says Harbert. "The joke around our show is that we didn't fix the original, we're repairing it." All publicity really is good publicity...
...lauding our government for spending even more money just to make sure its very own weaponry wouldn't accidentally launch? Why are we proud of the fact that many firms and even government institutions exposed themselves to security risks in their frantic race against the clock to fix...
...Coming up with ideas is easy," he says. "I just live my life, and every time I see a problem, I want to fix it." Take his most recent start-up, financial site iExchange, which launched in October. Gross had been trolling online financial message boards one day last December and noticed that about 15 of every 500 postings had intriguing insights. So he decided to create a site that tracks the accuracy of stock-price predictions by armchair "analysts," allowing the advice of those with the best past predictions to bubble to the top. MORE...