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Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes Michael J. Panzner See book keywords and concepts

The Internet isn't the only research source, of course. public libraries are a free and relatively underutilized access point for all kinds of valuable reference materials, directories, and specialized databases, though over time they will almost certainly face the same budgetary squeeze as other public sector services. Under the circumstances, much intelligence will need to come from the fast-expanding digital ocean. Electronic editions of business newspapers like http://online .wsj.com (mentioned above), www.ft.com, and http://bloomberg.com as well as financial portals like http://finance.

Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes Jack Challem See book keywords and concepts

You can also listen to music, podcasts, or audiobooks on your MP3 player. Many public libraries allow people to download books. If you walk outdoors, however, be aware of your surroundings and personal safety. The more physical activity you engage in, the greater the benefits in terms of your blood-sugar and insulin levels. So plan to increase your walking time and distance over the coming weeks. You can also engage in other types of physical activity, such as cycling, swimming, using hand weights, or a mix of several types of activities to prevent boredom.

Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation Charles Barber See book keywords and concepts

Eventually, there was simply no place for patients to go but the parks, the bus stations, the public libraries, the emergency rooms, and the homeless shelters. Deinstitutionalization coincided with the arrival of AIDS and the emergence of "crack" cocaine in the early 1980s, and the numbers of the homeless mentally ill rose dramatically across the country. Both Asylum Psychiatry and Community Psychiatry have been swept away by a new Corporate Psychiatry.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

It's not as if we lack the systems for sharing: tool lending has been enormously successful in California's Bay Area, where the public libraries in Berkeley, San Francisco, and Oakland have been expanded to lend sawhorses and screwdrivers as well as books. Borrowers tend to take good care of tools that they hope to use again. One of the best North American tool-lending models comes from Georgia, where the Atlanta Community ToolBank emerged from a program that helped disabled and elderly homeowners with repairs.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

The big cities bloomed in the great Beaux Arts projects of civic beautification. public libraries and museums opened in grand new buildings and anybody could go into them. Public health and sanitation improved markedly, especially as cars rapidly began to replace the horse (the Model T Ford was introduced in 1907). Outright magic was being conjured in the form of motion pictures and in wireless radio that could transmit the human voice vast distances through thin air. The human race seemed to be entering a golden age.

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

Copies also may be obtained at public libraries with access to newspaper databases, newspaper archives on microfilm, or through interlibrary loans. Notes CHAPTER 1: A SECOND-RATE SYSTEM Descriptions of fund-raisers and benefits to pay medical expenses for uninsured or underinsured Americans were gathered from interviews and newspaper accounts. Statistics on per capita health care spending, life expectancy, infant mortality rates, and healthy living were taken from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care.

Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs Stephen Fried See book keywords and concepts

The accompanying letter apologized for the agency's reliance on such an outdated technology and suggested that many public libraries still had their old microfiche readers. I was startled to say the least. My technophobic mother was using a computer for her holiday recipes, yet the FDA hadn't computerized its applications for new drugs?

Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer Michael Lerner See book keywords and concepts

Many Japanese adults wear a kind of surgical mask when outside, especially in winter, to protect themselves from germs. In public libraries, stickers inside book covers state, "Before and after reading, wash your hands well," and "Do not lick your finger to turn pages." At Japan's National Institute for Cancer Research, all books returned by cancer patients are wiped with alcohol before others can use them. Some Japanese leave used books in the sun so that sunshine will kill the germs. The Japanese are reluctant to use secondhand clothing for fear that it may carry germs.

The Medical Racket Martin L. Cross See book keywords and concepts

Had it passed, the data on doctors— including information on malpractice cases—would have been published and distributed to public libraries so that patients could check out doctors. But Wyden's bill was not just about that access. It also included material on gag rules for HMOs, and it was defeated." Dr. Croft expects that some compromise will eventually be reached on disclosure, and that it might affect only "repeat offenders," as Senator Wyden has suggested. Meanwhile, a handful of states are not waiting for the federal government.

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

For example, Carnegie money went toward the founding of free public libraries in many cities and to the establishment of Carnegie Hall, the famous concert hall in New York City. cartel An association in which producers of a similar or identical product try to obtain a monopoly over the sale of the product. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a cartel. Caveat emptor (KAHV-ee-aht EMP-tawr) Latin for "Let the buyer beware." It means that a customer should be cautious and alert to the possibility of being cheated: "Caveat emptor is the first rule of buying a used car.

Attaining Medical Self Sufficiency Duncan Long See book keywords and concepts

So to be on the safe side, double-check by locating a copy of the American College of Surgeons Yearbook (in most public libraries) or by contacting the American College of Surgeons (at 1-312-664-4050) and requesting a list of fellows in your state. You should be less swayed by membership in voluntary medical societies, especially those that have little if any requirements for membership. While these may help keep the surgeon abreast with new techniques or bring him other information, you have no guarantee that he has availed himself of them.

Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America E. Richard Brown See book keywords and concepts

Next were free public libraries, which, to Carnegie's mind, squared with his goal "to stimulate the best and most aspiring poor of the community to further efforts for their own improvement." Carnegie contributed 2,811 libraries to communities that promised to support them; this most famous of his philanthropies consumed more than $60 million of his wealth. Carnegie also recommended giving money for medical institutions, public parks and city beautification, halls for "concerts of elevating music" and enlightening lectures, swimming baths, and—last—church buildings.

The Medical Racket Martin L. Cross See book keywords and concepts

These qualifications and information about a doctor's background and training are easily available through two directories found in most public libraries. One is the Directory of Physicians in the United States, and the second is the Official ABMS Directory of Board Certified American Medical Specialists. The AMA has put its file of 650,000 doctors onto the World Wide Web, and you can call up the basic positive information by accessing: http://www.ama-assn.org. Once you've called that up, follow through to "Physician Select." Checking out specialists is just as easy.

Attaining Medical Self Sufficiency Duncan Long See book keywords and concepts

You can find a copy of Questionable Doctors in many public libraries. If a copy isn't to be found there, you can order a copy from the organization; you can also save some money by only buying the supplement for your state ($19 for most states). Geography Probably moving to a state to obtain better health care isn't an option for you. However the data in Questionable Doctors suggests that a move from one state to another might have a profound effect on the health care you receive. Uii ••• : hi Exactly why some states are more apt to attract poor doctors than others is unclear.

Most public libraries also offer Internet services. If you'll only be connecting to the Net once in a while for information, then this can save you a lot of money and also puts a librarian at your disposal to get you started — or even help you use the search I engines needed to locate the information you're looking for. (If you fail to find what you need on the Internet, the librarian can also guide you to print sources and other information within the library that may be of help.) Currently the Internet is slow.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

For example, Carnegie money went toward the founding of free public libraries in many cities and to the establishment of Carnegie Hall, the famous concert hall in New York City. cartel (kahr-tel) An association in which producers of a similar or identical product try to obtain a monopoly over the sale of the product. fa The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a cartel. Caveat emptor (kav-ee-aht, kah-vee-aht emp-tawr) Latin for "Let the buyer beware.

The Medical Racket Martin L. Cross See book keywords and concepts

The data bank should also include the names of doctors who have failed the specialty boards three times. In the case of malpractice, the names of doctors who have lost or settled two or more cases should be published, along with the physician's rebuttal. The new fraud data bank being developed by the ¦ government should also be made public, including those practitioners who have been "excluded" from Medicare and Medicaid.

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