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...about hardware. Consider installing low-flow spigots on your shower heads, low-flow toilets in your bathrooms and a front-loading washer in your laundry room (it's a bit more expensive than the traditional machine, but you'll see immediate savings on energy bills, and you'll use up to 30 percent less water for each wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Dry We Are | 4/10/2002 | See Source »

Which helps explain George W. Bush's predicament. Three years ago, Candy and Amador Guevara of Austin, Texas, had to sell their washer and dryer to pay for their 5-year-old's prescription drugs. They could not qualify for Medicaid beyond their children's first birthdays because Amador's job as a painter and wallpaper hanger pays an average of $350 a week, just over the income limit. But in 1999 Candy heard about CHIP from a social-services agency where she was seeking help to pay for her son's dental care. "It was so easy," says Candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Care Has A Relapse | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...Which helps explain George W. Bush's predicament. Three years ago, Candy and Amador Guevara of Austin, Texas, had to sell their washer and dryer to pay for their 5-year-old's prescription drugs. They could not qualify for Medicaid beyond their children's first birthdays because Amador's job as a painter and wallpaper hanger pays an average of $350 a week, just over the income limit. But in 1999 Candy heard about CHIP from a social-services agency where she was seeking help to pay for her son's dental care. "It was so easy," says Candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Care Has a Relapse | 3/2/2002 | See Source »

...calculus has several steps, Feinberg explains. First, the government will estimate how much a victim would have earned over his or her lifetime had the planes never crashed. That means a broker's family will qualify for a vastly higher award than a window washer's family. To estimate this amount, each family was handed an easy-to-read chart on the way into the meeting: Find your loved one's age and income and follow your finger to the magic number. Note that the lifetime earnings have been boosted by a flat $250,000 for "pain and suffering"--noneconomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is A Life Worth? | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...calculus has several steps, Feinberg explains. First, the government will estimate how much a victim would have earned over his or her lifetime had the planes never crashed. That means a broker's family will qualify for a vastly higher award than a window washer's family. To estimate this amount, each family was handed an easy-to-read chart on the way into the meeting: Find your loved one's age and income and follow your finger to the magic number. Note that the lifetime earnings have been boosted by a flat $250,000 for "pain and suffering"--noneconomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WTC Victims: What's A Life Worth? | 2/6/2002 | See Source »

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