Word: smarts
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...chosen to undergo surgery. Real patients are scared of being cut open, of getting infections, not waking up, becoming paralyzed. They're scared of the pain. And they don't care about statistics. The smarter ones understand how complicated a decision it is to have an operation. What smart patients want is something beyond statistics - most call it judgment - as they decide between the pain they're living with now versus the risks of a procedure that can't guarantee a cure...
Making the grid smarter will take real investment, but that's been lagging, and like much of our infrastructure, the grid is overdue for an overhaul. "Government funding has been pretty modest in scale," says Daigle. He notes that last year's federal energy act contained authorization for smart grid investment - but no money has been appropriated yet. That needs to change. As electricity demand increases in the U.S. and we become ever more networked, the consequences of a major power loss worsen as well. The blackout of 2003 cost some $6 billion, but it could have been far more...
...Iron Lady", were a bit younger, but not by much. They may run the country's huge state owned companies and the government that minds them, but in a China dominated by the Communist Party, leadership is chosen, and replaced, by generation. The diners at the Jianfu Palace were smart, and like Madame Wu, as tough as can be, but they are conservative, and they do things by the book. Dinner was served by scores of waitresses clad in qipao. The guests listened to traditional Chinese music, and they sat through toast after toast...
...real editor of standards, Allan Siegal, was short and heroically rotund.) His body is discovered with a telling item stuck into his chest: a newspaper spike, the symbol of days gone by, when an editor rejecting copy would spike it on a metal spire atop one's desk. The smart-alecky reporter assigned to cover the crime teams up with a dark and attractive (if implausibly aristocratic) female police detective. In their relationship, Darnton skillfully plays with the touchy alliance/competition/mistrust between reporters and cops, mirroring the larger association between the media and government. Surveying the thicket of potential murderers, Darnton...
...experience if you're not sloshed the whole time," says Canadian archer Jay Lyon. Not that Lyon has a choice - since alcohol is a depressant and could keep a jittery marksman calmer, beer is considered a performance enhancer in archery. He can't sip a drink for a month. Smart rule: drunk archers can't be good for their fans either...