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...m.p.h. even when a tire is flat. We also have an airless tire. In addition, we are looking at ways that, perhaps in 10 years, the tire will be able to talk to the car, saying "I'm worn out. I need pressure. Be careful; don't steer too fast; the road is slippery...
...comprehensive pain-management centers are so good at providing relief, why aren't more doctors following their lead? The sad fact is that virtually every trend in medicine--from the training doctors get to the treat-'em-fast pressures of managed care to the way insurance companies cover or fail to cover alternative therapies--works against this. "We don't teach medical students enough about pain, even though it's the most common reason people go to doctors," complains Fishman of U.C. Davis. "We've really wandered from a basic philosophy in medicine, where you cure what...
...strongly identified as being American.) Still, even companies that believe and practice a localized strategy aren't immune to political backlash. McDonald's, for example, adapts its menus to local taste; its restaurants serve Kiwi burgers in New Zealand and wine in France. But that hasn't prevented the fast-food chain from being a favorite target of French protesters. And General Motors has for decades made cars in Germany under the German brand Opel. But when GM last fall moved to stem years of heavy losses at its European operations by cutting 12,000 jobs, about...
...parents and how he talks to his sister Jessica on the phone everyday. Later, Jessica emailed me a long self-proclaimed love letter about the selfless, sweet man her little brother has become. Sweet and sensitive? Thoughts of Matt’s dim wit and Harvard-standard ambitions were fast being replaced by dreams of romantic candlelit dinners followed by repeated viewings of Clueless. But I tried to restrain myself: keep it professional, I thought...
After this titillating meal, I tried in vain to organize another rendezvous with the object of both my story—and my affection. Unfortunately, intersession was fast approaching, and Matt was heading home to small-town New York to spend some quality sweet-and-sensitive time with his family...