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...Peter Radsliff: "The adoption of all-electronic means of communication makes it more and more arduous for the technically savvy to revert to analog." That helps explain why the USPS lost $2.8 billion in fiscal year 2008 as a result of a 4.5% drop in pieces of mail sent. (See pictures about age and wisdom...
...users are not technophiles, which is why they are interested in Sunnygram," says co-founder Matt Ahart, "so it seems inconvenient to burden them with having to set up and maintain fax equipment." Along with individualized newsletters, which are basically a compendium of all e-mails and photos sent to a person's account that week, Sunnygram subscribers get a self-addressed stamped envelope. They can hand-write replies and mail them to the company, which scans and e-mails the notes to the right people. Or they can call a toll-free number and leave a message for Sunnygram...
...than the recommended wait time for such conditions. Between 1996 and 2006, even as some 200 EDs shut down completely, visits nationwide increased from 90 million to 119 million, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. EDs are so packed that an ambulance is turned away and sent to one farther away every minute...
...content to watch this ugly phase of the process - one of many it is likely to go through before it is over - from the sidelines. "It's going to look like a mess for a few weeks," said an official. "But overall, we think this is helpful. CBO has sent a signal that everyone needed to hear: This is not just an intellectual exercise...
...above the factional fray of the regime's politics - so closely to Ahmadinejad. He issued a barely disguised public endorsement of the candidate and then rushed to proclaim Ahmadinejad's "divine victory" and order all Iranians to accept it. But the mounting instability on the streets appears to have sent Khamenei into retreat as he ordered the Guardian Council to investigate claims of electoral fraud. If the combination of escalating street demonstrations and the politicking of Mousavi's backers inside the regime's councils prompts Khamenei to conclude that an Ahmadinejad victory is untenable, he could press the Guardian Council...