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...little description of the different therapies—it should all be in one place where you can see what’s available. Kids shouldn’t have to search it out on their own, they should be available to look at it, like on a grid...

Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Navigating the Caregivers | 1/16/2004 | See Source »

...telecom costs are three times higher than they would be in a country like Thailand. India's backward public-transportation system means he has to hire cars to take his employees home at night, which adds another 3% to 5% to his annual expenses. And India's electrical grid is so unreliable that most manufacturing companies have to produce their own power by purchasing generators and the fuel to run them. The cost of electricity for Indian tech companies is twice as high as it is for their Thai or Indonesian counterparts. "Over a period, we are eroding our competitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaky Footing | 1/4/2004 | See Source »

...hard to fix because the systems behind them are intricate, complicated and created by humans. New Yorkers and the inhabitants of a whole swath of North America spent a delirious, humid night in the complete dark in August, and for hours no one had a clue why the power grid had crashed or how on earth to fix it. The glitch that guaranteed that the space shuttle Columbia would disintegrate on re-entry occurred at lift-off, and none of the rocket scientists at NASA saw it coming. A sizable proportion of military deaths in Iraq were caused not even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of Living Erroneously | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

...fewer taxes. Congress is taking a loan from its kids to have its cake and eat it too. Together, a lagging economy, $350 billion in tax cuts, $400 billion in Medicare reform, and $20 billion for new schools (in Iraq), new hospitals (in Iraq), and a new energy grid (in Iraq) have made Bush a master magician of disappearing surpluses. As Baby Boomers approach retirement age in the next decade, rising costs of Medicare and Social Security exacerbate an already tenuous forecast...

Author: By Michael B. Broukhim, | Title: Rock the Debt | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

POWER IN YOUR POCKET A10 New technologies will provide micropower to help get you off the grid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contents: Dec. 15, 2003 | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

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