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...around customers even more" by supplying IT seamlessly, on demand, on a variable, pay-as-you-go basis. J.P Morgan Chase bought Palmisano's pitch, as did American Express. But it's not yet clear how many others will be willing to hand over more control to IBM. And fine-tuning the technology to accurately measure and bill customers for their usage will be no small feat. But if Palmisano can pull it off, and finally make all those confounding boxes and wires work the way they're supposed to, he will not just be enriching the lives of millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There's A New Way To Think Big Blue | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...HORIZON Researchers are exploring two related molecules, gaba and glutamate, that are responsible for 90% of chemical signaling in the brain. Because they control so much of the brain's activity, the trick is to fine-tune their levels in ways that relieve depression but don't affect other brain functions. Other targets of drug development: the sex hormone testosterone (a transdermal patch proved effective in a recent clinical trial for men); the stress hormone cortisol, which researchers are trying to regulate with the abortion drug RU 486 and compounds called CRF antagonists; the dynorphins (the evil twins of feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Depression: What You Can Do | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...both treats and prevents depression in susceptible individuals, and I prescribe it frequently. For best results, try to get 45 minutes of sustained aerobic activity an average of five days a week. Any activity that raises your heart rate and gets you breathing fast will do. Walking is fine if you do it quickly enough or include some uphill time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Natural Remedies: Mother Nature's Little Helpers | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

Combined with the culture's incessant encouragement to uncover, treat and neutralize whatever gremlins may lurk behind our brows, this built-in inner blindness can result in a sort of mental hypochondria. We give up on making fine distinctions and simply check ALL OF THE ABOVE. "It can be like medical student's disease," says Wilson, "where we think we have every new disorder." Evidence for this, he says, can be found in the fact that disorders tend to vary over different cultures and over time. In Freud's day, hysteria was all the rage--a problem experienced mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Not Overanalyze This | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...horrified." France recently signed an agreement giving Nuoc Mam Phu Quoc an appellation d'origine contrôlée, the same status given to Cham-pagne vintners. Which just proves what nuoc mam lovers have always believed: a good fish sauce is as precious as a fine wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Saucy | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

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