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The Looming Doctor S |
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| With nearly 80 million Baby Boomers approaching retirement age, America is facing a critical crisis. There simply aren萸� enough doctors to care for the aging population.
Currently, the U.S. produces about 25,000 doctors a year. To keep up with the demographic trends, we萸쟫 need between 3,000 and 10,000 more per year. Making matters worse is how long it takes to train a physician ?an entire decade ?which means that by the year 2020, the U.S. will face a shortage of as many as 200,000 doctors, according to a recent report in USA Today. |
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The Female Career "O |
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| To the surprise of many, large numbers of highly qualified American women are dropping out of mainstream careers. In fact, more than half of the women in the class of 1981 from Stanford University left the workforce at some point. |
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| Several forces are converging to make this an unprecedented time to start a business. And that trend is already bearing fruit. Consider the fact that the number of the nation��셲 smallest businesses, those which only employ their owners, increased by 2.2 million from 1997 to 2002, according to the Census Bureau. |
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Reconfigurable Compu |
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| The era of reprogrammable hardware is upon us. And it��셲 quietly becoming big business. To keep you up to date on this hot high-tech movement, the Trends research staff has ferreted out the latest developments in this revolutionary field. |
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Quantum Computing Ad |
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| Many of the problems of nanotech, biotech, and anti-terrorism are so complex that today萸� computers ?based on an architecture defined nearly 60 years ago ?can萸� address them. However, hope is on the horizon as researchers get closer and closer to building commercially viable quantum computers. |
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