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While the cost for those insured through the Harvard program is the same at UHS and at the clinic, for those without insurance the clinic provides the same services at about half the price. UHS, a much smaller facility, sometimes sends patients to SDM to handle overcrowding, according to Dean of Dental Education Dr. Howard Howell...
Lately, though, installing software feels like a cross between talking to a telemarketer at dinner and a national referendum on health care. Do you want the program to be your default browser? Do you want to overwrite an earlier version of DirectX? Do you want to register online now or the next time you reboot, or should we remind you every two weeks for the rest of your life...
Before I do, though, let's briefly digress to try to understand how this happened. After Microsoft introduced Windows 98, it became the practice to embed all kinds of Net functionality into programs. For instance, live links to websites suddenly became commonplace in e-mail; if you were reading a message, you had only to click on the blue text to launch your browser automatically and go to the website. This was a good thing; it made life easier. But for it to work, Windows needed to know how to get to the Internet on your computer. That...
...years ago, you could read a newspaper, page through a weekly newsmagazine and watch an evening news program and thereby receive separate, incisive and differing reports on topical subjects. Shortly, you will read TIME, watch CNN and be able to browse AOL's sites. But you will undoubtedly get the feeling you are digesting the same rehashed, bland and insipid "content." The rush to fill Internet bandwidth has dumbed down our media fare. The "new media" have made everything equal to one (and the same). How boring! FRANK KUBICEK New York City...
...secrets. So if you're looking for a hot stock in the Internet world, you might want to consider one of these cyber-security firms. After all, if there's one thing scarier than the notion of a bored kid holding America's economy hostage with a new smurfing program, it's the prices these types of firms will be able to charge for their services...