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...particularly in the United States - dealing with increasing health-care costs. If we're providing something that's not helpful, that leaves fewer resources for other, maybe more necessary, care. $7.8 billion is about how much the U.S. health care system spends on breast cancer in total - prevention, treatment, hospitalizations, chemotherapy, every surgery. And that's about as much money as we spend on preventive health examinations [each year...
...forward-looking environmental stewardship been more evident this year than in the debate over new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards (CAFÉ). The U.S. automakers argued to congress that Americans don’t want the kinds of cars that are needed to dramatically reduce the one-third of total emissions that come from the transportation sector. In the end, the American automakers were given a pass by the country’s elected officials to continue placing heft and horsepower ahead of what is right for the country and the planet...
...party fund had been created by the UC in the fall of 2003 to cover the costs of some private parties each weekend, including the reimbursement of alcohol purchases. Most recently, the program provided a total of $1,750 in the form of 16 separate grants each weekend...
...While the endowment, at $34.9 billion as of last summer, is the largest of any university in the world, it comprises more than 11,000 separate funds, with 83 percent of the total value restricted by donors’ wishes...
...same weekend.I never thought that I would have the chance to have a one-on-one interview with a former Duke basketball player.Heck, I never thought I’d be a sportswriter—period.In retrospect, I guess it shouldn’t have come as a total surprise. I was that kid analyzing the box score after a Lakers game, keeping score during an Angels game, and compiling stat sheets for my high school volleyball team.Writing about it came fairly easily—I’d only read about 10,000 sports stories in the morning papers...