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After all, who am I to complain? So what if my summer won't earn me a sidebar in the Internship Bible? If I wanted to impress random strangers and resume readers I would have stayed in New York. As it is, I have two months of low stress life ahead of me. Hey, if my job gets too boring, they ain't paying me; I can quit...
...economic destiny and prosperity of entire nations may rest on one question: Can silicon-based computer technology sustain Moore's law beyond 2020? Moore's law (see sidebar) is the engine pulling a trillion-dollar industry. It's the reason kids assume that it's their birthright to get a video-game system each Christmas that's almost twice as powerful as the one they got last Christmas. It's the reason you can receive (and later throw away) a musical birthday card that contains more processing power than the combined computers of the Allied Forces in World...
...impossible to cut costs any more. HMO enrollment is slowing; medicare reimbursements are too low; and hospitals and doctors are fighting back against deep fee discounts--in some cases dropping out of networks altogether. More people are opting for flexible plans, choosing preferred-provider organizations over HMOs (see sidebar). Says Tom Ferguson, a health-care consultant at William M. Mercer: "There's less incentive for providers to ration care...
Cambridge offers a variety of services, both for the abused and the abusers (please see sidebar...
Last Christmas Eve, a brawl erupted in the CambridgeSide Galleria parking garage. Police still don't know what led the two groups involved to begin fighting, but the episode ended when Gary M. Chatelain, 20, of Roslindale, Mass., was shot and killed (please see sidebar...