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Behind the slowdown lie aggressive steps by several states including Maryland, Oregon and Florida to contain medical costs. Many private companies are taking their own measures. Typical is Intel, the microchip manufacturer, which suffered 20% annual increases in health-insurance premiums until the introduction of a managed-care program in 1990 that covers 20,000 U.S. employees. Now costs are edging up only 5% a year...
...large part of the papers are patient files,including case histories, psychiatric evaluations,photographs and charts. The boxes contain filesfrom the Fernald School, from Benda's privatepractice in Boston and from Berlin, where he wastrained as a doctor...
...skepticism, even fear, of technology's power tools. "I'm a great believer that technology has to go through two waves," he declares. "The first wave can dehumanize, but the second wave, if the response and feedback mechanisms are in place, can be to superhumanize. So rather than contain and isolate and alienate us, technology can also expand and challenge and open us. And that's empowering...
...contemporary production of a Joe Orton play is usually surrounded by a number of discussions which generally contain the words "censorship," "propriety," and "homosexuality." These discussions often assume an intellectual tone which rarely escalates to the level of heated debate to which they did in England in the 1960s, when Orton wrote his plays. What was perhaps revolutionary then seems somewhat silly now. I do not mean to suggest that the issues which Orton's plays confront, namely censorship, propriety and homosexuality, have in any way abated--hardly. Instead, they have become much more complex and have moved into different...
...ultimate goal for biologists is to determine the exact sequence of all the chemical components of all 100,000 genes. That will give scientists the full, detailed genetic instructions for a human being. But since that map will contain 3.5 billion separate points, it probably won't be completed until after the turn of the century...