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...caught off-guard.” Harvard shut out the Blue Hose in the second half as senior Joe Pike picked up his fourth win of the season along with four saves. Freshman Christian Coates came in for Pike at the end of the third quarter and allowed zero goals while stopping four shots. Junior Sam Michel finished the game at goalie for the Crimson and grabbed one save, pushing the group total to nine. The goalies’ effort was tied for the best by the Crimson in over a year—since an 11-2 victory...

Author: By Colin Whelehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Avenges Spring Break Loss with Blowout | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

...that measured? It's based on the cost of a measure called the "quality-adjusted life year" [QALY]. A QALY scores your health on a scale from zero to one: zero if you're dead and one if you're in perfect health. You find out as a result of a treatment where a patient would move up the scale. If you do a hip replacement, the patient might start at .5 and go up to .7, improving by .2. You can assume patients live for an average of 15 years following hip replacements. And .2 times 15 equals three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Is a Year of Life Worth? | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

...must start spending again, and we will. But we've all known people who, having survived the 1930s, never lost their Depression habits of frugality. And so it will be again. We don't need to turn ourselves into tedious, zero-body-fat, zero-carbon-footprint ascetics, but even after the economy recovers, deciding to forgo that third car or fifth TV or imperial master bathroom or marginally cooler laptop will come more naturally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of Excess: Is This Crisis Good for America? | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...Recently analysts covering the manufacturing sector said that so many factories are shut here and overseas that the businesses are eating through inventories. That is being interpreted as good news because once inventories move close to zero, factories will have to increase production to replace them. That analysis glosses over two possibilities. The first is that the economy is bad enough that inventories may not drop at expected rates. Low demand may cause them to decrease much more slowly. That could push back a renewal of manufacturing activity for months. It is also possible that some factories will simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Housing Mirage: Misleading Numbers | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...need to be resolved," he says, pointing specifically to the biological resources, water-supply concerns and agricultural protections that have to be evaluated before the county gives the go-ahead to the applicants. How much experience does he or anyone in the county have with these kinds of processes? "Zero," says McKenzie, a 20-year county-planning employee. "These are the two biggest plants in the world ... This county is getting to be one of the first folks to deal with it." Will any of these projects make it by 2010? "There's a possibility," he says, adding that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solar Power: Eco-Friendly or Environmental Blight? | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

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