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...square: Cambridge is renowned for being a vibrant college town, but grocery stores are nowhere to be found near the Yard. If you land in a union dorm, you’ll be just a short walk from Broadway Market, an overpriced but well-stocked and delicious supermarket. And on your way to class, you can grab a cup of Starbuck’s around the corner...
Another innovation at the VA was a bar-code system, as in the supermarket, for prescriptions--a system used in fewer than 5% of private hospitals. With a hand-held laser reader, a nurse scans the bar code on a patient's wristband, then the one on the bottle of pills. If the pills don't match the prescription the doctor typed into the computer, the laptop alerts the nurse. The Institute of Medicine estimates that 1.5 million patients are harmed each year by medication errors, but computer records and bar-code scanners have virtually eliminated those problems...
...from a Boulder-based company called Renewable Choice Energy, which in turn pays wind farms throughout the country to produce electricity - enough to offset 211 million lbs. of carbon dioxide emissions each year. This purchase makes Vail the second-largest buyer of wind energy in the nation behind the supermarket super-chain Whole Foods, which went 100% wind power with their 458,000 megawatt-hours in January...
...least credit cards still work. An upscale supermarket was packed as I stocked up for what might be a long siege of Lebanon. I found myself in a grim race with another man grabbing bottles of orange juice, each of us trying to get as many as we could before the other could claim them. This will be a savage place in two weeks if this keeps up, I thought...
...Lebanese--who lived through far worse than this during the civil war--are determined to put up a steely front. Every time I go to a supermarket to collect quotes from supposedly terrified families stocking up on essentials, I end up being the one with the largest shopping-cart load of canned goods and batteries. But it's hard to escape the sense of dread that looms over the country. "Twenty years of reconstruction are being destroyed in a few days," the Tourism Minister, Joseph Sarkis, moaned to me from his nearly abandoned ministry. The owner of a subterranean nightclub...