Most health care services in the U.S. cost at least twice what they do in other countries, and sometimes up to ten times as much.
Opening the light rail across Lake Washington over the weekend was an historic moment. Trains go across bridges regularly, but never before has there been a train over a floating bridge. Engineers worked on the challenge for years. We’ll hear why it’s so complicated and how engineers pulled it off from University of Washington professor Travis Thonstad.
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