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...Wider adoption of e-prescribing could lead to further efficiency in medical record keeping, which many believe is vital to both improving health care delivery and lowering costs. "Electronic prescribing could be an on-ramp for physicians beginning to use a full-featured electronic medical records system," Hutchinson says. "That's the holy grail...
...will be $63 billion—more than double Harvard’s—when Buffett’s pledge of $31 billion is realized, will direct the money toward promoting global health and development, according to its Web site. To accommodate the new schedule, the foundation will ramp up its payout, aiming to spend $3.5 billion per year beginning in 2009 and continuing through the decade, as compared to $1.3 billion spent last year, according to its Web site. It has committed itself to grants totaling $11 billion in its seven years of existence thus far. The Gates...
...first glimpse, it looks like a silly scrawl. But don't let that fool you - Line Rider is becoming one of the most popular flash games on the web. Part Jackass stunt, part physics lesson, Line Rider encourages users to "draw" their own ramps, hills, and slopes with a pencil tool, then sends a virtual sledder (wearing a red scarf) along the route until he swoops, swerves and crashes. Build an elaborate enough course and you'll feel like a little kid playing in the snow again, zooming downhill, popping up in the air, wiping out on a ramp jump...
...bunch of people in skeleton makeup, and have them march down a post-apocalyptic road? Why not put a damn blimp above it with a sign that reads “The Black Parade,” just in case there’s any confusion? Why not ramp up the drama by making it black and white except for splashes of red, and topping the whole thing off with snow? Why not give lead singer Gerard Way a really unfortunate bleach job? There is actually a storyline of sorts in the video, in which a person with an undefined...
Even as those outfits ramp up, however, civil libertarians are sounding warnings. It's one thing for airport screeners to peek inside your shoes or squeeze your toothpaste tube. It's another when they pull you aside for questioning because you set off alarms on some scanning device whose reliability could be shaky. And who knows what techniques are already in use at Guantnamo and other extralegal holding pens...