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...tuberculosis cases are concentrated in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. In the El Paso hospitals, 50% of the patients are on some kind of public assistance, mainly Medicaid. Just about the only patients paying full freight, up front, are rich Mexicans who cross over to see a specialist. "Border towns have a double burden of disease," says Russell Bennett, chief of the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission, "those of emerging nations, like diarrhea, as well as [First World] diseases like stress and diabetes...
...traffic stops to energy-efficient light-emitting diode signals--which alone will save more than 500 tons of CO2 pollution each year and cost the city $53,000 less than conventional bulbs. "The idea is to solve global warming one city at a time," says Glen Brand, an energy specialist for the Sierra Club, which has launched a "cool cities" website...
...violent hulks of today’s wrestling rings with the “zany and comical” wrestlers admired in the 1980s and early 90s, opened the event, which drew an audience of over 40 men and women to Emerson Hall. But moderator Gordon Braxton, a prevention specialist from OSAPR, pointed out that today’s depictions of masculinity are both contradictory and complex, citing movies as having “uber-heroes” who “show a greater deal of emotional range than their predecessors.” Braxton said he organized...
...some cases, to cancellation of blood drives.” The FDA policy was last reviewed in September 2000 when the Red Cross recommended against changing the policy because of the risk of introducing HIV-positive blood into the blood supply, according to Nicole Hyland, corporate communications specialist for the Red Cross...
...assembled an eclectic group ofthinkers to identify the trends that will shape our future. It included an Internet entrepreneur who owns a basketball team, a mother who writes about the American family, a specialist in popular culture and an Op-Ed editor at a large city newspaper. We heard a fascinating conversation about how video games are making kids smarter, how consumers are turning into inventors and why some of us are taking longer showers. Listen to most of that discussion at TIME.com Here are some excerpts...