The underlying changes in the climatic system could not be reversed over any time scale relevant for decision-makers, limiting the efficacy of traditional recovery measures.

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The U.S. is still stalled in the research phase and the ITIF report calls for a federal approach comparable in scale to the Interstate Highway System launched in the 1950s, with national real-time traffic information in the 100 largest cities by 2014 and a mileage-based user fee system by 2020.

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In another view, a system of micro-tasking rather than a full-time job means that it is too small a scale to really price out the cost of these benefits on a per task level.

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It is time that the medical profession and the medical education system gave top priority to solving them, not on a small scale, but across the board. 200, 000 preventable deaths per year in US hospitals are 200, 000 deaths too many.

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