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...wants to strike no more than does a textile worker. But the malpractice burden - indeed, the malpractice threat - is the final assault on the implicit contract society makes with its healers: you give up the best decade of your youth, your 20s, to treat the sick and learn your craft, and we will allow you to practice it with autonomy, dignity and the kind of security - and freedom from capricious victimization - that, oh, say, lawyers enjoy...
Missy and Timbaland are one of hip-hop’s great duos, a point driven home by the confident pose the two strike together inside their new album. Each record they craft signals another paradigm shift in mainstream hip-hop. But for once, the ante’s been upped on them—the Neptunes now own this hip-hop game, and their effect via the breathtaking “Grindin” on Under Construction is clear...
...missions. And around the same time, Japan's $132 million Nozomi orbiter will arrive to test the Martian atmosphere. Those price tags are modest, compared to the $100 billion price tag estimated for the International Space Station. But even so, why does the world need three missions carrying five craft to Mars? Surely the scientific community would lower its costs if it pooled money, brainpower and technology in a group effort. Alas, the glory of being the first to bring back data about life on Mars defies financial logic. As Pillinger says, "There cannot be a human in the world...
DIED. FREDERICK KNOTT, 86, angst-ridden playwright of Dial M for Murder who wrote for money but hated the craft; in New York City. Dial M, a clever, tense mystery that focused on law enforcement's attempts to break down the alibi of a man who has killed his wife, started as a TV special and later became a successful play and a 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film...
...convince WorldCom's anxious customers and employees that the company, whose revenue has fallen an estimated 15% to 20% in the past year, won't be disconnected anytime soon. Now, with the prospect of a possible fine of up to $9 billion on the horizon, he has to craft a viable reorganization plan for the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history, involving $107 billion in assets. To generate real profit, he'll have to consider unloading its shrinking paging business and handing out even more pink slips. He also wants to turn the company into (don't laugh) a paragon...