Word: brooked
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Then again, many doctors and hospitals overtreat patients simply because they have a blank check to do so under many insurance programs. As much as 20% of all medical procedures and treatment is completely unnecessary, contends Dr. Robert Brook, director of health sciences for the Rand Corp. Cost of the waste: $132 billion a year. Aetna estimates that as much as 30% more ($198 billion) is discretionary care that may not solve the problem under treatment...
Chaplin, the fourth of eight children of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill, and Thierree, who has performed for such talents as Federico Fellini and Peter Brook, share a sense of theater as a primal force and of spectacle as something inward. For them it is not spiritual, exactly, but not entirely show biz either. Their circus began in 1971 in Avignon, when it featured 30 performers and a regulation menagerie. In the intervening years, the focus has become more precise, so that now the whole business can quite handily be contained on a bare stage, within the confines...
...NATURE CO. This is the neo-naturalist's answer to wet seals. No rock videos here, though. Enter these stores and you're more likely to hear the babbling of a brook or the haunting song of a whale, sniff the fragrance of freshly brewed chamomile tea or gaze through dappled lighting meant to resemble sunlight in a forest. "People come in and say, 'Ahhh!'," says Anita Treash, the company's marketing director...
Waste Management, a firm in Oak Brook, Ill., with revenues last year of $6 billion, beat a number of international rivals to take on Kuwait's dirty work by simply sending in its own army of 100 sanitation workers within days of the war's end. "We just wanted to get started," says the company's Kuwait manager, Nick Harbert. "If they wanted to pay us, fine. If they wanted us to leave, that was fine...
...MAHABHARATA (PBS, March 25, 26, 27, 9 p.m. on most stations). Another stage event, Peter Brook's marathon version of the Hindu sacred epic, comes to TV in three two-hour segments...