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...documentary focusing on the rehabilitation of women with life-threatening eating disorders. While the production of a magazine hawking $4,000 wool coats may seem like something of a departure from Cutler’s more serious subject matter, he insists that the industry is worth exploring. “I’m really just telling stories about people,” he says. “Anna was a subject who struck my curiosity. [She’s] a remarkable figure not only in the fashion world, but in the business world.”Aside from directorial...
...distant, cold, and weirdly hollow. But in the end, the band fulfills their weighty responsibilities, protecting their impressive legacy as they steer and educate their offspring. Though at times long-winded, Yo La Tengo maintain their status as the wisest of authorities, full of surprises and always worth listening to. —Staff writer Jessica R. Henderson can be reached at jhenders@fas.harvard.edu...
...justified by science and could be overturned by votes of Congress. It is clearly a distortion to call these groups "death panels," as some critics like Sarah Palin have. As it now stands, Congress sets reimbursement rates, while private insurers routinely decide what potentially lifesaving treatments are worth paying for, and no one calls either death panels. But it is also legitimate to question the makeup and restrictions on these government panels...
...McKinsey's report, which was completed as part of nearly $15 million worth of work for the Department of Health this year, also called for a recruitment freeze within the next two years and for a drop in medical-school admissions, according to the Health Service Journal. It said savings of up to $5 billion a year could be made by improving staff productivity, while more than $3 billion could be saved on external contracts with waste-disposal companies, food suppliers and other contractors. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...whole-brain emulation. Could you discuss that and its relationship with human enhancement? Whole-brain emulation is a hypothetical future technology which would enable human minds to be "uploaded" from biological brains onto computers. This is a radical technology that's a long way off. It is nevertheless worth analyzing now because if it is developed, it would have profound consequences in relation to enhancement. For example, a mind that runs as software on a computer is not subject to biological aging. Such a mind could also be sped up by moving it to a faster computer. Backup copies could...