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That sloppiness, among other things, widens the price gap with foreign hospitals that entrepreneurs are exploiting. United Group Programs (UGP) of Boca Raton, Fla., a third-party administrator that sells a low-premium, bare-bones form of coverage called a mini--medical plan, this month began promoting Bumrungrad Hospital as a preferred provider to its customers. Employees of self-insured businesses who use the more conventional plans designed by UGP will also have access to the Thai hospital. This means that UGP offers the option of partly or fully covered medical tourism to some 100,000 people, including those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outsourcing Your Heart | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

...life, is the evidence to the contrary? Reasonable people cannot disagree about the untruths enmeshed with the world-altering events of the last few years. And yet daily we practice tolerance toward untruth. Dismissal of historical fact, degradation of interpretive principle, plain concepts purposefully eroded, impudence toward empirical sciences; bare and slanderous celebration of ignorance itself—we call these things “politics” and change the subject. We are polite to a fault, and beyond. Each day the student, the dean, the professor make an intellectual choice: Veritas, or your manners;,Veritas, or your professionalism...

Author: By Jim Von der heydt, | Title: A Jeremiad for an American School | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

...cartwheel through space. Employing Napurrula's usual technique, artisans prepared a groundcover of ocher-like red, over which they traced the artist's design of a sacred site near Kiwirrkura; infilling the rest with daubs of white. In this way, the blood and bones of her country are laid bare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Parisian Romance | 5/15/2006 | See Source »

...With a lobby ceiling stripped bare to expose 78-year-old paintwork and with dentist chairs surreally placed beneath vintage fans, Singapore's New Majestic Hotel (newmajestichotel.com) makes a striking first impression. Then again, 34-year-old owner Loh Lik Peng didn't make his name by pandering to conventional notions of innkeeping. The lawyer-turned-hotelier's first property, Hotel 1929, saw a colonial-era terrace on the fringes of Chinatown transformed into a modish haven of 32 small but eccentrically styled rooms. The latest venture, a couple of streets away, is a grander vehicle for his bohemianism. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Loh and Behold | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

With a lobby ceiling stripped bare to expose 78-year-old paintwork and with dentist chairs surreally placed beneath vintage fans, Singapore's New Majestic Hotel newmajestichotel.com makes a striking first impression. Then again, 34-year-old owner Loh Lik Peng didn't make his name by pandering to conventional notions of [an error occurred while processing this directive] innkeeping. The lawyer-turned-hotelier's first property, Hotel 1929, saw a colonial-era terrace on the fringes of Chinatown transformed into a modish haven of 32 small but eccentrically styled rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Loh and Behold | 5/2/2006 | See Source »

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