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...burgers: 15¢), fast food has grown to a $45 billion business. The increase from ten years ago is nearly fourfold. From burgers to fried chicken to pizza, fast food has become the quintessentially American dining experience: a perfect expression of those bedrock values of efficiency, thriftiness and speed...
...because of loose controls over how "black" funds are spent. Still, such undercover operations face practical accounting problems. Units are often dispatched in a hurry, requiring large cash advances. If requisitions and paper procedures are elaborate, too many people could learn about a mission, compromising both its secrecy and speed. "That's the penalty you pay," said a retired Army general, "when you permit an organization to report only to God." Since the Army will not admit publicly that Delta Force even exists, proving that its members pocketed money that was also carefully concealed may not be easy...
...left-hand corner of the page allow you to view other images; to scan Nightingale's entire online portfolio (some 543 images to date), click on Thumbs. The Archives section offers a detailed description of each image, including how it was shot (which camera, type of lens, shutter speed, etc.). The Snowsuit Effort is also excellent; featuring close-ups of the individuals photoblogger Ryan Keberly meets on the streets of Detroit and the things they say. For a Top 100 list of photoblogs and a directory organized by country and language, visit Photoblogs.org...
...extraordinary. IBM sees opportunities to apply massive computing power to help doctors make diagnoses and treatment decisions. New standard practices could be communicated to doctors within months rather than 15 years, the current lag between discovery and practice. Pharmaceutical companies with access to anonymous health data could improve and speed up drug development. There may even be a buck or two in it for consumers from what has been called information liquidity: If you want access to my data, pay me. Best of all, we could finally throw away those damned clipboards...
...m.p.h. Speed of the wind at Powell's back, which was slower than the wind that helped American Tim Montgomery set the old record...