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...Peter Jennings' old house. "I just drove by one of the places Peter used to live here," Rather told Time.com by phone from Beirut. "And thought I'd stop alongside for a minute." Rather indulged himself in a spell of nostalgia, both for Jennings, his longtime friend and competitor who lay dying of lung cancer half a world away in New York City, and for Beirut's bad old days of warlords and war correspondents, when the two men first got to know each other...
Dallas cardiologist Lawrence Poliner says his case shows how peer review can be abused. Last August a jury awarded him damages of $366 million from Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas and three colleagues who trumped up charges of substandard care against him to eliminate him as a competitor. Says Poliner: "It's unfathomable that a process that should be about healing could be used to attack doctors." Obstetrician John Raviotta, after reporting to state authorities dangerous obstetrics policies at the Community Memorial Health Center in South Hill, Va., lost privileges there as a result of a peer review that included doctors...
...gymnastics are some of the sports I am committed to. During the cross-country and track seasons, I have practice Monday through Friday, mostly at 7:30 a.m. I love running so much that I run on my own too. I am also a Level Six USA Gymnastics competitor. This is a yearlong sport for me, and I never get a break. I don't mind this, and I look forward to practices, which are three hours, three times a week. The one thing I dislike about running and gymnastics is when they conflict. It pains me whenever I have...
...Well, it's been interesting for me. You would think that as other magazines started to explore some of that, it might hurt us. But we are by far the newsstand leader now, in a bigger way than we've ever been. Our nearest competitor, Glamour, is now over a million copies less than us on the newsstand. Maybe it's just because it's so much part of our mission. Sometimes when you try to do something that really falls into somebody else's territory, it's very hard for them...
...swimmer, water polo player, and academic decathlon competitor in high school, Tran also spent much of his time volunteering, and he wishes to focus on community service while in college, while also engaging with the Vietnamese roots from which he is so little removed...