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...moving procedures away from hospitals and into clinics and doctors' offices. "That's a big trend because you get higher quality at lower cost," he says. In some respects, the solution was early: the medical community has taken its time coming around, but the e-health industry has gathered momentum over the past couple of years, and Allscripts is now growing fast. Its sales increased 89%, to $228 million, in 2006; earnings increased 23%, to $12 million...
...Mexican capital's Assembly is controlled by the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), whose candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, barely lost last year's presidential election to conservative President Felipe Calderon. But the measure's proponents are betting that if it passes in Mexico City, similar initiatives will gather momentum in other states - just as a law allowing gay civil unions did earlier this year. The abortion measure may have even broader backing, according to the Mexico City-based pro-choice group Catholics For the Right to Decide, whose surveys in Mexico, where at least 90% of the population...
...need for adaptation is rooted in the unhappy fact that we can't turn global warming off, at least not anytime soon. The momentum of the climate system--carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere for decades, while oceans store heat for centuries--ensures that no matter how much humanity cuts greenhouse-gas emissions, our previous emissions will keep warming the planet for decades. Even if we were to magically stop all emissions today, "temperatures will keep rising, and all the impacts will keep changing for about 25 years," says Sir David King, chief science adviser to the British government...
Ermakov took his singles match at No. 6 by a score of 6-2, 6-2. He and Kumar—who won at No. 3, 6-2, 6-2—carried their momentum from their earlier doubles match, winning very quickly and bringing Harvard to the edge of victory...
After the victory was clinched, Denenberg ran out of the momentum he had built initially, losing in a supertiebreak at No. 4 after winning the first set, 6-3, and losing the second...