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...Mary Jo Buttafuoco, a Long Island, N.Y., housewife, casually answered her door and unwittingly stepped into one of the most sensational crimes of the decade. Standing on her front porch, Mary Jo was shot in the face by Amy Fisher, her husband Joey's 17-year-old mistress. Fisher, quickly dubbed the "Long Island Lolita" by the New York tabloids, ended up serving nearly seven years in prison for reckless assault. Joey, a 36-year-old auto-bodyshop owner, went to jail for four months for statutory rape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mary Jo Buttafuoco: Life After Amy Fisher | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...cars haven't exactly taken the world by storm. Reva - which has received venture capital from Draper Fisher Jurveston, the Global Environment Fund and Mellon HBV Master Global Event Drive Fund - has sold only 3,000 cars over the past eight years. Half of those have been exported to Europe, mainly to London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Made in India: The $12,000 Electric Car | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...incentive to help their customers save electricity and avoid the need for new generating plants. So that's what they did. Energy providers were much better than the government at influencing the behaviors of energy consumers. "That's what we need in health care," says Dr. Elliott Fisher of the Dartmouth Institute. "When providers get rewarded for volume, they provide volume. That's got to change." (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Key to Fixing Health Care and Energy: Use Less | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

...Diego. Patients in higher-spending regions get more tests, more procedures, more referrals to specialists and more time in the hospital and ICU, but the Dartmouth research has found that if anything, their outcomes are slightly worse. "We're flying blind," says Dartmouth's Dr. Elliott Fisher. "We're getting quantity, not quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Cut Health-Care Costs: Less Care, More Data | 6/23/2009 | See Source »

Upon that basis, economists and finance scholars cleared the way in the 1970s for a new approach to investing and risk management that included index funds, risk-weighted portfolio allocation and mathematical models to price options and other derivatives. A lot of this was, as with Fisher's economics, useful. But a basic assumption underlying much of it--that prices were reliable reflections of economic reality--was problematic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth Of the Rational Market | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

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