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Starting with expensive procedures like CAT scans. The clearer and more comprehensive x-ray imaging known as computerized tomography (CT) is certainly one of the most valuable recent advances in medical technology. But doctors are gorging on it: the number of CAT scans performed in the U.S. each year has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case of the $12,000 Kidney Stone | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

Let's talk about cold-weather-related inventions. Like the bicycle, for instance. That's my favorite one. That grew out of the Year Without Summer [1816]. There was quite a lot of volcanic activity for several years prior to that, and it created a cloud of dust high up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Why Some Like It Cold | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

Making a living as an architect has never been an easy proposition. Very expensive schooling is generally followed by years of laboring under another architect for slave wages - all in the hopes that one day a devastatingly rich patron will fund the dream building. But with the economy grinding along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cool Way to Make Architecture Pay: Ice Cream! | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

House members who favored acquiring the new planes argued that they were needed replacements for aging aircraft, and would be less costly to fly. The current Gulfstream C-20 costs $6,100 an hour to operate, compared with $2,700 for the more modern Gulfstream C-37. The Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress's Bid for More Plush Planes Hits Turbulence | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

As the U.S. obesity rate rises, it's not just waistlines that are expanding. The cost of medical care has ballooned, according to a new report in the policy and research journal Health Affairs. The study's authors compared medical data from 1998 and 2006 and found that obese Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

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