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...German banks have been working round the clock for the past week to try to fix the problem, which involves reconfiguring tens of thousands of cash machines and payment terminals in German stores and supermarkets, as well as those in countries visited by vacationing Germans, to be able to read the faulty chips. Officials said that replacing all of the cards would simply be too costly and time-consuming. (See the worst business deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year 2010 Bug Strikes German Bank Cards | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...follow this path, will I find myself cooking more? It will definitely save money if you fix more meals at home. We probably eat out once or twice a month. And it's more a preference thing. You like what you make at home and someone isn't sneaking in 300 calories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coupon Mom: How to Cut Grocery Bills in Half | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

...checklists can help fix that but sometimes run against the medical culture. We evolved from a world where the operating theater - we called it a theater - was a stage for the surgeon. Now it is a stage for an entire team of people to work in sync. The most important component [of the checklist] has turned out to be making sure that everybody in the room has been introduced by name and that people just take a minute to discuss the case in advance. I introduced the checklist in my operating room, and I've not gotten through a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atul Gawande: How to Make Doctors Better | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

...single at Christmas usually goes down like this: it's either won by a song extolling the merits of the time of year ("Merry Xmas Everybody" by Slade, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid); a novelty track ("Mr. Blobby" by, er, Mr. Blobby, "Can We Fix It?" by Bob the Builder); or, for the past four years, a song by the newly minted winner of The X Factor, Britain's wildly popular version of American Idol. Indeed, the chances of any act upsetting X Factor creator and judge Simon Cowell's latest prot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rage Against Simon Cowell? A British Pop Charts Upset | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...Since a similar problem in 2002 was resolved by "winterizing" the locomotives so that snow couldn't get into the engine blocks, Eurostar officials were guardedly optimistic that the same method would fix the problem this time. However, even if the trains do start running again, anger over the fiasco won't melt as quickly as the thinning French snow. (See the worst business deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eurostar Breakdown: 'Tis the Season to Be Livid | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

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