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...Advancing battery technology is] the most important thing we can do to move toward more electrification. But it is just one piece of a solution. Clearly, the solution that is appealing is one based on electric vehicles...
...billing bureaucracy more efficient. But communication the other way, from billing to medical, would take place too. And this is more insidious. In a digital system, doctors can't simply write whatever they want: they generally must select from predetermined choices. That runs the risk of nudging them toward diagnostic decisions based on the computer's choices. The structure of an EMR, in other words, can easily offer an open invitation to create hyped-up diagnoses and inflated bills...
Along with the "stress tests" big banks are conducting under regulators' supervision, the asset sales could move the government farther down the road toward closing or taking over the most troubled banks. The operative word here is could - Geithner and top White House economic adviser Larry Summers have been awfully cagey about what comes next. The more plainspoken Bair allowed that the asset-purchase plan "will be a significant benefit to many banks, but some will be beyond help." Soon we may find out which hopeless banks she's talking about...
...seems to have decided that shunning Belarus has not worked. "Isolation is perceived to have failed as there has been little change in the political structure of the country or moves toward democratization," says David Marples, a Belarus expert at the University of Alberta in Canada. With Russia badly hit by the sharp drop in the price of gas and oil, it's also a good opportunity to increase Europe's influence in the region...
...meeting? We've got a quite unprecedented global crisis, but there is going to be unprecedented global cooperation. In 1933 a world economic conference took place in London. It was designed to deal with the problems of that particular crisis and to stop the drift toward protectionism. The conference was a total failure. [Now] we see so many countries who want to be part of a global set of measures that can help...