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Outsourcing – This takes outsourcing to a new level….Subject: DEPRESSED? I was depressed last night so I called Lifeline. Got a call center in Pakistan. I told them I was suicidal. They got all excited and asked if I could drive a truck.

The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard is a wonderful short video of ‘how our economy works’ for the people in the back of the class and elementary school. It is fun and guaranteed to make Corev laugh.

Tufts Health HMO, rated best in the US by US News, just sent a note that included changes in co-payments on procedures. Co-pays go from $25 to $600 for Cat scans, MRI scans, pet scans, breast biopsies (which can consist of removal of a cysts with a BIG needle), colonoscopies and other procedures. Where the […]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image Vol. 1(3) December 2007 (Public Library of Science) Shown are 1,659 adult Schistosoma mansoni worms obtained by live surgical perfusion of an 18-year-old patient. In this issue of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Daniel G. Colley and W. Evan Secor present an agenda for schistosomiasis research (see Colley et al., […]

The price of oil touched $100 today. The new record is being accompanied by all kinds of analysis and comments relating this new record to developments in the US economy. But, US real oil imports, including both crude and refined products have been flat to down since early in the decade. Looking at it from […]