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One 12-year-old boy searching for information about Costa Rica used the search term “sweaty clothes” because that was what he associated with the jungle.

One way Google aims to overcome that problem is by showing related searches.

Ms. Druin called the bottom of the screen “valuable territory” because children often focus on their hands and the keyboard when they search and see that space first when they glance up.

because Bing used more imagery than other search engines, it attracted more children.

Children also tend to want to ask questions like “Who is the president?” rather than type in a keyword.

the Senate blueprint, which
faces its first votes tonight, also is winning praise from other
leading health reformers like Mark McClellan, the former director of
the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services under George W. Bush and
Len Nichols, health policy director at the centrist New America
Foundation.

The public competitor to
private insurance companies championed by the Left would affect who
writes the checks in the medical system, but not what the checks are
written to pay for.

And since virtually, if not literally, none of them
plan to support the final health care bill under any circumstances, the
package isn't likely to reflect much of their thinking.

bill
needed to include a tax on high-end "Cadillac" insurance plans

payment reforms that will "provide
incentives for physicians and hospitals to focus on quality" and
provide "care that is better coordinated"

must project the bill to be at least
deficit neutral over the 10-year budget window and deficit reducing
thereafter.

the Reid bill met
all those tests

CBO projected that the bill would reduce the
federal deficit by $130 billion over its first decade and by as much as
$650 billion in its second

If you go down the
checklist of what they said was necessary for a fiscally responsible
bill that will move us towards the health care system of the future,
this passes the bar."

reward Medicare providers who deliver care more efficiently and
penalize those that don't

The Baucus delivery reform ideas revolved around two central aims.

Hospitals would also be penalized if they
readmit too many patients

or allow too many to acquire
infections while in the hospital itself.

increase reimbursements for
physicians found to deliver high-quality care at lower cost, and reduce
them for physicians at the other end of that spectrum.

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High and difficult mountains surround the basin.

several crops every year

Farmers

Located in a highly protected, productive setting and adjacent to

virtually every major region of historic China, Sichuan is capable of

being wholly independent from the rest of China.

Yet, control of

Sichuan and its agricultural riches provided access to every other

major political and economic realm, making it the target of many

outside warlords and emperors.

Economic activities and resources today:

tea, silk, flowers, medicinal herbs, and diverse wildlife,

including pandas, deer, and tigers.

Popular tourist

sites include the Thousand-Buddha Cliff, Qingcheng Mountain, the Bamboo

Forest, the Corridor of Cypresses, Woolong Nature Reserve (for panda

conservation), and Xiling National Forest Park.

Yangtze or Changjiang-"long river"

twentieth century,

initiatives to dam the Yangzi have brought about drastic changes in the

landscape, economy, and lives of the people living in the Yangzi

Valley, forcing many to relocate.

manufacturing centers exist along the river because

it is a cheap means of transport

arge numbers of people who

spend their entire lives on small or medium boats, making a living

moving goods and people via the numerous lakes, canals, and rivers of

the entire Yangzi valley.