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...quality video images and CD-quality stereo sound. Nintendo, striking out on its own, is opting for a higher-powered, 64-bit chip, and will store its games on high-capacity, plug-in cartridges instead of CD-ROM discs. Nintendo says this will enable it to offer both a lower-cost system and the blistering speed demanded by its target market: adolescent boys who like the fast-paced "twitch and flinch" action games...
...locations can send images and data back to base hospitals so that emergency-room teams know exactly what they are dealing with when the patient arrives. Although teleradiology has been around for a decade or so, only now is it moving into the mainstream of medical care, thanks to lower-cost computers, significantly improved clarity of video images and improvements in networking and telecommunications. Many surgeons routinely use sophisticated computer-driven probes and TV imagery to help them in their diagnoses and operations. All this and more already exists. With a little tweak of the technology here or an imaginative...
...wash rather than trim chickens and also to speed up the production lines. "It was the worst decision I ever made," says Carol Tucker Foreman, then the official in charge of food safety at the USDA. "They had that study, and I was convinced the consumer would benefit from lower-cost chicken." Many studies since then have shown that washing is ineffective, even after 40 rinses. (Trimming is still required for beef, "because the meat industry doesn't have poultry's clout," says a USDA official.) Simply put, the slaughtering process in which washing is the integral component merely removes...
...attempt to compete with lower-cost organizations for heart patients, Harvard's combined Massachusetts General(MGH) and Brigham and Women's hospitals are joining a national coalition o teaching hospitals according to media reports this week...
Provide new federal subsidies for prescription drugs. Patients treated in lower-cost group medical networks would pay only $4 a prescription. Those in more expensive health plans would be insured for 80% of the cost of prescriptions, after paying a $250 annual deductible...