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Long before the first dormitory opened to signal the start of a new academic year, tens of thousands of parents had received those familiar and depressing envelopes with word from the college of their offspring's choice: tuition, room and board. All due immediately.
Now entering its fourth year, the experiment seeks to correct those inequities at a reasonable cost. Each network may consist of several hospitals and cover a population area with tens of thousands of births a year. Each also has one or more fully staffed and equipped regional perinatal centers, complete...
Though regionalization saves lives, a newborn's stay in an intensive care unit can run into tens of thousands of dollars. Balanced against this is the nearly $1 million it can cost over a lifetime to support a child handicapped in birth, or the in calculable emotional toll on...
Besides the possible black hole in Cygnus, one appears to be part of another double-star system in the constellation Scorpius (the Scorpion). Three more may have been detected, each at the heart of a globular cluster of stars in the halo of the earth's Milky Way galaxy. In...
The boundary marking that no-escape distance depends on the mass of the deceased star. Typically, this frontier is an imaginary sphere tens of kilometers across that defines the size of the black hole. It is the point of no return that scientists call the black hole's "event horizon...