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...insurance to all sections of our society.” They identify Canada’s main problem as one of funding, and America’s as one of structure. There are a few standards by which the U.S. outperforms Canada. The study found Americans less likely to smoke, and more likely to have had cervical pap smears and mammograms. Critically, Americans said that they were more satisfied with the care they receive than their Canadian counterparts. The report suggested this could be due to the shorter waiting times and better appearances of American hospitals. Himmelstein, however, said...
...experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends. Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eating disorders and consider suicide, and the more likely they are to do well in school, delay having sex, eat their vegetables, learn big words and know which fork to use. "If it were just about food, we would squirt it into their mouths with a tube...
...Panasonic ads, claiming that Oxyride "beats the bunny" in comparison tests with leading alkaline batteries in digital cameras, left out Oxyride's performance against Energizer's e2 lithium batteries. "Their comparison is against one of the batteries in our portfolio that is recommended for everyday devices like flashlights, toys, smoke detectors," says Jeff Ziminski, vice president of North American marketing at Energizer. Energizer plans to let consumers know (loudly) that in tests specifically for digital cameras, e2 lithium batteries blow the socks off competitors...
...hitch in that great new technology is that while Oxyride is clearly better for digital cameras and other gadgets that slurp up a lot of energy in pulses, it is less effective for things that consume low amounts of energy at a constant rate, like radios and smoke alarms. "Our preliminary tests show that Oxyride is a good cell," says Paul Klatt, a quality-assurance engineer for Batteries Plus, a retail chain specializing in batteries. "But its niche is really higher-drain devices...
...When Merapi last erupted 12 years ago, 60 people were scorched to death by 300?C smoke. And since the tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004, which claimed 170,000 Indonesian lives, the government has been especially wary of the toll that can be inflicted by natural disasters. So the authorities have built dams to block the lava, set up evacuation routes, taught villagers to build bunkers, and transferred 20,000 people to makeshift shelters at least 8 km away...