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...calculus behind this interest isn't complicated. Many major employers in the U.S. are self-insured, which means they pick up the tab for much of their employees' medical care. That's why three major corporations that collectively cover 240,000 lives asked Dr. Arnold Milstein, national healthcare "thought leader" at the consultancy Mercer Health & Benefits, to assess the best places to outsource elective surgeries. Procedures in Thailand and Malaysia, he found, cost only 20% to 25% as much as comparable ones in the U.S.; top-notch Indian hospitals sell such services at an even steeper discount...
...computer game alone can cure adolescent financial ignorance. Some curriculum experts wonder why high schools are still teaching algebra, trigonometry and calculus but not the financial skills their students will need to survive in the real world, such as how to fill out tax forms, compare interest rates or calculate the return on an investment. "More schools need to offer money-management classes," says Lewis Mandell, a finance professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo who oversaw the JumpStart research. "The curriculum has to be made relevant to their lives...
...that he plays flute, alto flute, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax and guitar. He has worked as an advocate for the mentally ill and the developmentally disabled in North Carolina, taught physics and East African geography in Kenya, and has been a substitute teacher in subjects ranging from calculus to seventh-grade...
...have, however, realized that this logic is flawed—no utility calculus can negate the fact that Harvard’s money was linked with the ultimate evil of murder. Combined with Sinopec’s larger presence in Sudan that has developed in the past year, divestment from Sinopec was the only proper course of action. We applaud the University’s divestment. That it did so before considerable student pressure developed (although a petition drive was amassing signatures) is a particularly promising sign...
...industrialized countries have done--within the next five years, if not sooner. And as the CEO of a publicly traded company, he has to make decisions that will affect shareholders decades in the future. Power plants have life spans of 50 years, and if carbon is taxed, the fuel calculus of those plants changes radically. "We're very dependent on coal," says Rogers, "and if you're going to have earnings growth that's sustainable over a long period of time, you [need] certainty on the carbon issue...