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...matters stand, primary-care doctors, who tend to emphasize low-cost preventive treatment, make one-third to one-half the money earned by specialists, who can charge top dollar for their high-tech procedures. For a newly minted doctor who leaves medical school with an average debt of $50,000, it is hard to resist the appeal of a lucrative specialty. Another disincentive to primary care is the long and unpredictable hours -- especially in rural areas where a doctor may be the only physician for miles around...
Starrs, a professor of forensic sciences at George Washington University, is one of a growing -- and controversial -- group of graveyard detectives. Listening with the ears of high-tech equipment, they try to hear the tales that dead men tell -- stories that could settle age-old mysteries and even solve crimes. In a rush to rewrite history, these bone buffs are going after the skeletons of everyone from Presidents and Czars to assassins and the victims of cannibals...
...fundamentally wrong approach to economics. Instead of developing and diversifying agriculture, most African countries tried, often ineptly or corruptly, to industrialize at a time when much of the world was already on its way into the postindustrial age. African industrial products never had a chance to compete in a high-tech world. Farmers who could not overcome unrealistic price controls, or simple neglect, moved into overcrowded cities. That meant enormous quantities of food had to be imported and paid for in hard currency...
...FORCE. Though the Gulf War demonstrated that modern air power can win wars, this high-tech service will also have to cut back. It is being forced to scale down its ambitious plans for the B-2 Stealth bomber and settle for the 20 planes currently programmed, probably excessively, at a staggering $2.3 billion apiece rather than the 132 that the service originally wanted. ! Similarly, the Air Force will have to face reality on its warplane of the future, the F-22: the Pentagon's request to buy 648 of them for as much as $95 billion beginning...
...just might happen. This summer, from San Francisco to Berlin, Detroit to Paris, a wave of raves is overtaking conventional night life with unbridled energy and a brash new sound. Part funky fashion show, part techno music dance-a-thon, part politically correct flea market, raves are loopy high-tech love-ins laced with a playful sense of the absurd (and with a dollop of illicit drugs...