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...Googling the name of the developers' conference, "F8." What made F8 significant, historic even, was that it was the first time the Facebook platform was thrown open to developers. Anyone who knew how to write applications for Facebook was invited in. Andreessen says an open-coding environment is key to any successful platform because the easier it is to use, the more developers will be drawn to it, making the platform that much more powerful. Facebook also gave developers free distribution. Users who want to add a new app can do so with one-click simplicity. All this, says Andreessen...
...focus on making sure every 25-year-old woman comes in for a preventive exam, what do we really want to make sure that woman has received? A pap smear, maybe a cholesterol screening - and similarly [come up with guidelines] for other age groups, and really focus on those key services we think are important...
...provide Americans, and how much they cost. He found that 1 in 5 Americans gets a general physical check-up in a given year, accounting for 8% of all ambulatory visits to doctors and ringing up a $7.8 billion annual price tag. But by examining the data on eight key preventive health procedures, Mehrotra found that almost all the important counseling and testing - from weight-loss tips to mammograms - happens outside of general physicals...
Since the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, virtually every indicator in the fight against climate change has continued to head the wrong way. The planet’s temperature continues to rise. Industrial activity is increasing, and with it greenhouse gases. Vehicle miles travelled, a key indicator of the public’s concern, has risen steadily before taking a slight dip in the most recent quarter, due to higher fuel prices...
...Kathleen M. Buckley, associate provost for science, said a second building is under discussion, but that the new deans—at key constituencies like the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School—are still debating how and when planning might proceed...