Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: How may you help me? | Comment How may you help me Gregory A Petsko Address Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center Brandeis University Waltham MA 02454-9110 USA. E-mail petsko@ Published 27 May 2005 Genome Biology 2005 6 111 doi gb-2005-6-6-lll The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http 2005 6 6 lll 2005 BioMed Central Ltd The road to hell may be paved with good intentions but if you re looking for the entrance ramp my current bet is that it was the invention of the self-service gas petrol station. Thanks to this exciting development touted as a boon to the time-strapped consumer motorists can come into direct contact with carcinogenic fumes while handling one of the most explosive flammable materials ever created. Selfservice gas stations have also increased the profits of the automotive repair industry since no one ever checks their oil or tire pressure anymore. The phenomenon has led to a curious linguistic paradox such gas stations are still referred to as service stations even though service is precisely what you can t get at many of them. Self-service is outlawed at gas stations in New Jersey however proving something I ve suspected for a long time that the US would probably be a better country if the Mafia just ran it overtly. Merging onto the Hades Highway we next encounter the Automated Teller Machine ATM a device ingeniously constructed to make it easier for banks to charge you extra for something they used to do for free namely giving you your own money. When the only way to withdraw or deposit funds was to enter the bank and talk to a human being the non-automated teller such service was provided for free. With the advent of the ATM banks quickly realized that most people would primarily use such machines to spare themselves the inconvenience of traveling to the bank from wherever they were so they began charging a fee for using machines that were not actually located at one of .
