Some experts say lengthening the school year is more important, because there is ample evidence that some students, especially those who are low-income, suffersetbacks in their learning from being out of school during the long summer vacation.
But, Nul said, the cost of this intervention is lower than the cost of patients being hospitalized, a significant point because much of the cost associated with congestive heart failure stems from patients needing to be hospitalized after they suffersetbacks.
While nowhere near as severe as the global Blackberry outage in mid-October, Earthlink could suffer similar setbacks faced by Blackberry owners Research In Motion.