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• While we're at it.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)(memorial service for Jaroslav Pelikan, John Henry Newman, Thomas Friedman)

  - 2007-01-01

  * At the memorial service for Jaroslav Pelikan at Yale University, there was Bach organ-music and reflections by Yale's president Richard Levin and by James Billington, Librarian of Congress. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma played Bach's Suite No. 6 in D Major, followed by readings from Dostoevsky and...

  Tags: Benefits, Church, church, HEALTHCARE, Iraq, Mary, Peterson, priest, SOFTWARE, survey, Transportation, upshot, women, Yale University

• Night fighting made easier with advanced goggles.(TECH TALK)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-06-01

  The U.S. Army will be spending $560 million over the next five years on enhanced night-vision goggles that, for the first time, combine image intensification and infrared images. The upshot is that a soldier gets the benefits of both the high-resolution image-intensification pictures and, at the...

  Tags: Benefits, image, soldier, U.S. Army, upshot

• Some Employers Offer Workers Education in Investment.

  - 2001-08-26

  By Janet Kidd Stewart, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 26--Fernando Azcarate, now 32, always dreamed of retiring at age 55. But after nine years at Bloomington, Ill.-based State Farm Insurance, his 401k account was coming up far short of...

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• Academic medical centers: lean times ahead

  - 1997-05-01

  Congress is proposing that the government should reduce its role in financing medical education and that a greater part of the burden should be bourne by private health care companies which benefit fron such training. Since the demise of Pres. Clinton's health care reform plan, the industry has...

  Tags: Benefits, Duke University, education, HEALTHCARE, HMO, hospital, Medicare, patient, SOFTWARE, training, upshot

• Electronic claims: still buyer beware? - disability claims technology - includes related article on evaluating claims systems

  - 1991-09-01

  If you're curious about electronic claims processing systems, you're not alone. New products are being introduced, demonstrations are proceeding, and reports of new systems abound. But because evidence of success is still inconclusive, it's important to examine how electronic claims processing works, what the different types of systems...

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