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...Federal Government or those who work for insurance companies. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, roughly equal numbers put more trust in HMOs (41%) vs. the Medicare program (39%) to provide better health care, while 20% were not sure. But early tests of how well private insurance companies treat seniors have not been promising. Health-maintenance organizations rushed in when the government gave them a larger opening in the Medicare market three years ago. This summer scores of HMOs announced that they are dropping their Medicare policies, leaving nearly 1 million senior citizens who had signed up for them scrambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Pill Is Sweetest? | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...real average family, the middle 20% of taxpayers making between $24,000 and $39,300, would do better than Gore suggested. They would be able to use Bush's tax cut to treat themselves to two cans of Diet Coke a day. Refreshing, perhaps, but not life changing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Issues 2000: Have We Got A Tax Cut For You! | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

...solution was simple: treat the Internet as a democracy. Google interprets connections between websites as votes. The most linked-to sites win the Google usefulness ballot and rise to the top of search results. More weight is given to "voters" with millions of links themselves, such as Amazon or AOL. If the big hitters are pointing to your Tiger site, Google says it's cool. Popularity equals quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of Google | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...Creme de la Mer was invented by Max Huber in the 1960s to treat his own rocket-fuel burns. According to Estee Lauder, which owns the product, his formula consisted of fermenting a seaweed broth to the prerecorded gurglings of previous batches. Lauder researchers don't know why the sounds make a difference, but without them, they contend, the cream loses its potency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Face-Lift In A Jar? | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

Today neurobiologists no longer argue about whether or not the brain can grow new cells. Instead they're trying to figure out how this cell growth can be harnessed to treat everything from epilepsy to stress to depression. Some have observed that during stress, for example, neurogenesis in the learning center of the brain in several animal species slows considerably--which may help explain depressive episodes that accompany stress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neurobiology: Old Brains, New Tricks | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

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