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...meeting needs. Already, "reproductive tourists" travel to countries where looser rules might increase their odds of success. Could patients create as many embryos as they like and pick the best, as long as they line up couples to adopt the rest--or sell the extras to offset the costs? This is no wild plan; in the U.K. researchers offer women reduced rates on fertility treatment if they agree to donate half their harvested eggs for research...
...addiction to plastic. One banker told TIME that a byproduct of a recession is that people charge more and don't pay it off, increasing their balances. Another is that it gives a bank that is ready for recession the opportunity to win share from the unprepared. Those might offset whatever pain the prospect of more regulation will bring...
Growth in home health care may not offset issues in the far larger professional segment, though. U.S. regulations have slashed Medicare payments for imaging services performed outside hospitals. That has pared lucrative sales of new imaging machines in the U.S.--Philips' largest health-care market--as much as 10% last year, according to research by JPMorgan. Still, "Philips probably has the most defensive exposure to the nonhospital imaging market" compared with rivals Siemens and GE, according to Citigroup...
...filming, but Romero brings that decision to the forefront in “Diary.” At one point, the protagonist even stays behind in a zombie-infested hospital because he has to recharge his camera. This extreme statement about the character’s priorities is offset by more subtle touches. Throughout the first half of the movie, for example, the filming protagonist’s face is kept in the shadows, effectively reducing his existence to little more than the lens of his camera. But “Diary of the Dead” is not without...
...interest rates wipes out your advantage. "The thing that will make home prices stop falling is the very same thing that will push mortgage rates higher," says Jim Svinth, chief economist at mortgage firm Lending Tree. So anything you gain by a further drop in prices might be offset by rising financing costs...