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...than wait on a street corner for a cab in San Francisco, Washington, Dallas or 22 other cities, use Ride Charge to call a taxi via your smart phone. BlackBerry users must create an account, then summon a chariot by emailing get@ridecharge.com; iPhone users can just download the Taxi Magic app. The program gives you real-time updates on your car's location, when it will arrive, as well as the driver's name and car number. Plus, you can pay by credit card...
...Obama administration thinks it has discovered a magic bullet in the drive to lower health-care costs: electronic medical records (EMR). Getting the medical profession to switch from manual record-keeping to a national computerized system, boosters argue, will save money, reduce errors, improve quality and transform health care as we know it. President Barack Obama has proposed investing $50 billion over the next five years to help make it happen...
...This stimulus money is not the magic bullet,” she said. “What matters now is how we will get the money into our hospitals, how we will manage to use it so that we can ensure stability and continuity of [CHA’s] services...
F.D.R., however, was able to roadblock attention in American homes on the only mass broadcast medium in existence, one so new and intimate it still seemed like magic. Obama is in a mediasphere that includes broadcast, cable, blogs, Twitter and sundry home-entertainment boxes. To persuade in this world - and the President is not just the decider but also the persuader - you have to go multiplatform. (Read "The New Liberal Order...
...economist David Ricardo, for anyone to cloak a theory around something that humans had been doing since time immemorial. Ricardo showed that if nations concentrate on what they do best - those things in which they have a comparative advantage - and trade for the rest, their welfare will increase. The magic of trade is that it encourages economic specialization. If the fruits of that specialization can be freely exchanged, everyone benefits. (Read "Protectionism on the Rise in Europe...