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Thomas Goetz's argument about technology's paradoxical role in healthcare costs

According to Thomas Goetz, the executive editor at Wired Magazine, the current national debate over healthcare reform is missing a critical point that is driving up costs: technology.

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Economic implications of teenage buying power and market influence

Teenagers today in the United States have increasing purchasing power and their numbers have also grown over the past decade.

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Keystroke analysis as biometric authentication for cell phone security

Biometrics is becoming an increasingly popular method of identifying unique human characteristics as a means of authenticating an individual's identity.

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Walmart's competitive strategy and Porter's five forces analysis

"Everyday low prices" is the vision statement of Wal-mart and has been since Sam Walton opened his first store in 1962. To accomplish the vision statement of Wal-mart, the company incorporated a philosophy of keeping its prices low by increasing its sales and lowering its costs.

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Volunteer work at Project Open Hand changes perspective on U.S. poverty

So far, I have learned that simple things like eating a healthy, well-cooked meal are things that many of us often take for granted. Before I came to Open Hand I had no idea that poverty was this apparent in the United States.

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The difference effective leadership makes in organizations

The process of social influence in which someone can procure the aid and support of others in the achievement of a common task is leadership. Leadership definitions that are more inclusive of followers also exist.

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Amiri Baraka's writing on race, freedom, and universal human experience

"A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom," wrote Amiri Baraka whose life work has been a series of attacks on what he has felt to be the constraints -- the chains -- of mainstream American society.

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Ruddiman's hypothesis that humans prevented an ice age through early agriculture

The scientific arguments for humans affecting climate change seem to be all around us today in the news and in conversations.

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Legal and ethical issues in government information system design

Legal, Ethical, and Social Issues Facing Data Storage and Information Systems: A Hypothetical Case Study Information technology often seems, especially in some of its more mundane business applications, to be about as far removed from areas of legal, ethical, and social concern as is possible.

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Achieving sustainable living through time management, consumption reduction, and nature connection

Sustainable living involves more deliberate choices in the face of three aspects of our lives, including time crunches, too much "stuff," and a disconnection from the land base and spirituality. Using our time in sustainable ways can be the foundation of a more happy and sustainable lifestyle.

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