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...core organizing concept of medicine is to care for the individual patient [while] public health has a population perspective," he says...
...sideshow, not the main event. Flutes play. Writers recite. Young singles munch bagels. Toddlers look for Waldo. "The idea of the cafe and the couches," says Steve Riggio, Barnes & Noble's chief operating officer, "is to make the store a good place to spend leisure time." Riggio's concept appears to be working. Superstores are expanding and multiplying (to the tune of 20% last year) and even stores whose main business isn't bookselling are aping the superstores' bibliophilic ambiance. In Manhattan's landmark Scribner's bookstore, fabled haunt of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, a Benetton branch has set up shop...
...concept of a center at the Kennedy School is pretty flexible," said Ramsey Professor of Political Economy Richard J. Zeckhauser. "I sometimes forget which [centers] I am associated with, and I have to check my resume...
...most unusual concept yet for a White House movie--one imagines, anyway--belongs to Sacred Cows, a notorious and as yet unproduced screenplay by Joe Eszterhas, who is most famous for writing Basic Instinct and Showgirls. Sacred Cows, which is being developed by MGM, tells the story of a President who is caught having a trans-species tryst in a barn. At various times, according to Eszterhas, Steven Spielberg, Milos Forman and Robert Zemeckis have all been attached to the film as directors. "It's a comedic but serious piece," Eszterhas says. "It ultimately makes the case that the President...
Surveys show Americans at times envision heaven as a place like home and, surprisingly often, as a place where baseball is played (even prior to the 1989 release of Field of Dreams). This U.S. concept brings us closer to the views of Polynesians and the Balinese, who envision a heaven much like their islands but without illness. JEANNETTE BELLIVEAU Baltimore, Maryland...