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...incentives for insurers to offer coverage to people who now have trouble buying it because they have pre-existing health conditions. It also puts more emphasis on preventive care and sets up "state exchanges" - similar to the one now operating in Massachusetts - in which individuals and families could comparison-shop for insurance plans. (Read "Baucus Predicts GOP Votes for Health Care Reform...
...laundries, providing free labor for the religious orders, which, in turn, received government payments for each child that was sent to school. "I was supposed to be sent to school for an education," says Quinn, who spent hours each day repairing damaged clothes in a tailor's shop. "But it was more like penal servitude...
...most recent innovation to make the details of everyone's life available to everyone else is a GPS tracking phone. Someone late for a meeting can no longer say he is stuck in traffic. His phone shows he is in the coffee shop just around the corner. A company called Glympse offers this tracking product for a number of smartphones. (See a TIME package on travel gadgets...
...Technology that is already fairly old allows credit card companies to keep tabs on what customers are doing with their money, which includes where they shop, what they spend, and whether they pay their bills for other credit cards, their car payments, and mortgages. The Senate recently passed a "Credit Card Holders Bill of Rights" that will make it more difficult for lenders to take personal financial information and decrease people's credit lines or raise their interest rates. The Bill of Rights will make most of the payment tracking software useless. The banks that bought it will have...
...time. Most of the vessels outside Singapore are idle and have been stripped to skeleton crews of three or four in contrast to the normal contingent of 20-25. Nevertheless, they all require the services of companies like Con-Lash Supplies, the firm Lee works for. A one-stop shop for ships sailing through Singapore, it handles the immigration paperwork of oncoming crew, coordinates with ship fuel suppliers and ship repairers, and sells a wide range of goods from coffee to cooking oil to DVDs. "We're at the center of everything," Lee says. (See 10 things...