Word: basic
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...ticket. "And of course, you need to buy a new outfit for Paris," she says. She has even convinced some friends to go with her. "I just said, 'Screw it - I'm going to go here.' " She is also going out more and spending a bit more on basic staples. "I got tired of being poor," Calleja says. "At some point, you have to get back your sanity...
Nothing, it seems, beats the most basic form of bonding - a good old-fashioned one-on-one powwow, even if you're only trading coos and gurgles...
President Obama recently pledged $19 billion to computerize America's medical records by 2014. Denmark has already made the transition. The country has a centralized computer database to which 98% of primary care physicians, all hospital physicians and all pharmacists now have access. While basic records go back to 1977, a detailed history is available of all "patient contacts" since 2000. A recent study by the Commonwealth Fund, a health-care-reform nonprofit, rated the country's health-care IT systems as the most efficient in the world, with computerized record-keeping saving Danish physicians an average 50 minutes...
...choose from a list of specialists, but he or she will get a referral and the needed care. In some cases, patients even get paid to go to the doctor: for new mothers, a network of prenatal and early childhood facilities, called Protection Maternelle et Infantile, provides basic care, with financial incentives for the poor to attend...
...come from a very basic family. I grew up in Italy, where my grandmother lived not too far from us. She had all the animals that were necessary to feed an extended family--chickens, geese, pigeons, rabbits, goats. Plus, she had a garden. Nothing got thrown away! Even if we peeled potatoes or cucumbers, the scraps went into a bucket to feed the pigs and the chickens. So it was a complete 360 degrees. For a chef or someone who loves food, there is no better feeling...