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...follow the ancient Okinawan practice and stop eating when we’re 80% full. But personally, I don’t know what 80% full feels like, and surrounded by food I haven’t prepared myself, I don’t want to live by guesswork. (In many restaurants, a stick of butter can easily slip into a meal and go unnoticed by even the most calorie-conscious diners.) These placards aren’t mandates. They’re tools to make informed decisions, implements to hold the chefs accountable for preparing healthy foods, and methods...
Until now. Thanks to the Health-Care Callousness Assessment Test (or HCCAT, for short)--a test I've devised as a supporter of universal coverage enacted in economically rational ways--the guesswork and knee jerk can be taken out of the equation. With three simple questions--the kind that can be dropped casually in conversation or on national TV during a debate--anyone can discern whether a Republican's approach to health care is truly pitiless or merely unsympathetic. A look at how the HCCAT scores Romney's Massachusetts plan and the health-care tax deduction just announced by Rudy...
...nightmare," he recalls. Now, as a researcher at Battelle Institute in Columbus, Ohio, he's revolutionizing the field. The current methods for determining the life span, or what engineers call fatigue life, of a welded joint are notoriously imprecise. Dong refused to resign himself to the same guesswork that other engineers have long thought unavoidable. A man who has to keep himself from thinking after 9 p.m. in order to prevent insomnia, he had his eureka moment while reading himself to sleep five years ago. On a magazine ad covered in his scribblings, Dong's method, dubbed Verity, was born...
TIME's selection showed that Hispanics are a diverse and vibrant group. But listing 25 influential Latinas and Latinos who are still proving their worth involved much guesswork. Perhaps it would have been better to name prominent people who already have a lifelong record of accomplishment. Latinas and Latinos have an established tradition of community building in the U.S. We have been here longer than most other Americans realize...
Under the right conditions, CT images of the heart are so sharp, however, that they can take a lot of the guesswork out of diagnosing heart disease. "There's a fairly large middle category of people where it's not clear how much heart disease they actually have," says Dr. David Bluemke at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. "Their cholesterol is high. Their blood pressure is high. They have a few risk factors. That doesn't mean they need to go to the catheterization lab. But it sure would be nice to get a quantitative measure of their...