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...reducing what doctors and nurses do to flow charts. Thousands more business people every year make money "reducing costs" in medicine. It has worked out well for many; the CEO of one of our larger HMOs took home over a billion dollars last year. These people know they can slice up and squeeze the money out of the doctor-patient relationship only if it's reduced to a lifeless, mechanical emulation - an algorithm. But it's more complex and beautiful than those without feeling and judgment can know, and sometimes, like in Tim's case, it's simpler...
...husband, an infant daughter and a completed film, Waitress. It appears to be a true reflection of her spirit - eccentric, good-naturedly feminist, kind of funny and kind of sentimental. Despite its realistic setting in a small Southern town, it is much more a fable than it is a slice of authentic life...
...third straight win since a painful third set tiebreak loss against Yale.Mukundan displayed her clinical precision and extensive repertoire of shots throughout the match. In the second set, Winingham hit a high bouncing second serve to Mukundan’s backhand. Mukundan’s sharply angled slice backhand return hit the intersection of the service line and the singles sideline, forcing Winingham hopelessly out of position and giving her no choice other than to come to net. Mukundan’s next shot, a topspin winner that hit the same vertex of lines on the opposite side...
...came from carbon-belching coal plants. Geothermal energy can at least make a start on cleaning up this mess. The China Energy Research Society expects 110 gigawatt hours (GWh) to be produced through geothermal power nationally by 2010, out of 2.7 million GWh in total. That's a tiny slice, but energy experts believe China has the potential to do much more. "There are geothermal resources in almost every province in China," says Ingvar Fridleifsson, director of the United Nations University Geothermal Training Program in Reykjavík. Geothermal pumps will even be used to heat and cool some...
Even without such hard data, microcredit has captured the imagination of philanthropists. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with an endowment of $33 billion, has pledged as much as 25% of its total spending to its "global development" program, including microfinance. Such programs account for only a small slice of the nearly $250 billion Americans gave to charity in 2006, but they're becoming more popular, partly because microfinance has a reputation for transparency and efficiency...