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...computers held such promise for us in medicine: doctors and patients live in a world of painful, pressing questions, the answers might be in there. Or so we thought. Twenty nine years from the night I first sat in a hospital in front of a computer screen the questions persist. And I still don't see the profit-maximizing, cost-controlling physician with his nationwide computer treating patients any better than the great physicians I've known have. With pen and paper, personal commitment to each patient and judgment born of practical experience. None of which I have found...
...It’s exceedingly simple. Give yourself permission to do it. Why do so many people put themselves in a box for 20 years after college, when the world needs such changemakers? Give yourself permission to make it happen, and then all you have to do is persist...
...from the same period a year earlier, the worst quarter on record. South Korea's GDP shrunk 3.4% in the fourth quarter, Singapore's fell 3.7% and Hong Kong's dipped 2.5%. Eric Fishwick, head of economic research at brokerage CLSA in Hong Kong, predicts these dismal numbers will persist. He sees Singapore's GDP contracting 10% this year, while South Korea's will decline 7%, Hong Kong's will slide 5% and Taiwan's will drop, stunningly, by double digits. "We've never seen an external shock in Asia like this," says Fishwick...
...cost of funding. In other words, the long end of the yield curve will continue to be depressed, just as it has been in Japan for the past 16 years. In the early 1990s observers in Japan argued that 10-year Japan government-bond yields of 3.5% could not persist for long. That was when the government debt-to-GDP ratio was around 50%. It now stands at 150% and 10-year yields are 1.36% (having gone as low as 60 basis points in the interim...
...sure, a number of militant rejectionists remain at large in Iraq. On Tuesday, attackers torched a polling station near the city of Fallujah in Anbar province. And sporadic bombings persist in Baghdad, Mosul and Diyala province. But the fear of carnage that has surrounded past elections and mass public gatherings like the regular Shi'ite pilgrimages is low.(See TIME's photo-essay "Showdown in Fallujah...