Word: overnighting
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...forging a drinking culture based on limiting drinking to 21 and over. For one, Americans drive more and therefore suffer more consequences from drunk driving. For another, the rest of the world may actually have evolved higher physiological tolerances for alcohol, an effect that Americans cannot hope to duplicate overnight. Finally, research shows that European countries, at least, do actually have an alcohol problem: Europe, as a whole, consumes far more,per capita than the United States, and its rates of liver problems are alarming...
...possible. "Sometimes I feel like I'm storming an impregnable fortress," says Guo, the women's advocate. "But we have had a few concrete victories." Last year, Guo and her colleagues successfully lobbied to eliminate a regulation forbidding female graduate students from becoming pregnant. "We can't change everything overnight," says scholar Teng Biao. "But even the leaders recognize they must reform the system if they want to resolve societal problems...
Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs), which compete with hospital outpatient departments for procedures that don't require overnight stays, like colonoscopies and some joint surgeries, are hollowing out hospitals as well. There are almost 5,000 ASCs today, nearly twice as many as a decade ago. Four in five are at least partly owned by physicians, many in partnership with hospitals seeking to minimize losses. The number of imaging centers has climbed to 6,037, up from 4,159 in 2001, according to the data firm Verispan. The scanning machines are costly to maintain, but once those costs are covered...
...don’t think the changes we are looking for are going to be able to be passed with a position paper and overnight,” said Anene. “We can integrate environmentalism into the culture of our campus...
Such speculative interest could evaporate overnight if the market cools, of course. But that's where the non-Chinese buyers come in. The international contemporary-art market is highly cyclical--many would say current prices are at all-time highs--but there remains a core group of wealthy art collectors who will be comparatively unaffected by external conditions. It's the buyers from that group who are now turning their attention to China, argues banker and avid collector Carl Kostyal. "About 10 to 20 collectors are at the leading edge of contemporary art globally," says Kostyal. "They are already buying...