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Paretzky joined the group’s a cappella subset, Sisters of Kuumba, and was elected the choir’s vice president her junior year. For the past year she’s also been developing her repertoire by singing with the local band Soulfège, started by Kuumba alumni...
...sleek-looking, 88-bed, for-profit hospital, which opened in February, uses more than 650 computer stations made by GE Medical Systems to store records, test data and diagnostic images. Bedside terminals are intended to make patient care swifter and more customized--and safer, with mandatory bar-code scanning to cut the chance of a drug mix-up. Of course, the "paperless office" has been touted for years and has seldom materialized. But the hospital says its goals will be met if it can boost productivity...
...planning "road shows" and taking out full-page ads in the New York Times. But is this all just much ado about nothing? The U.S. government does use its purchasing power as both a carrot and a stick, but formal sanctions just won't happen. And private corporations, like GE, got their "multinational" tag for a reason - they'll sign contracts wherever they get the best deal. As for average U.S. consumers, they've shown little compunction about buying diamonds that fund bloody militias in Africa, so in the long term they're unlikely to lose their appetite for flash...
LIFSET: Our economy is very effective in driving technological change, and you can see the benefits in terms of resource efficiency and reductions in pollution all around us. Companies as sophisticated as Dow or GE, first-rate companies, will produce good, responsible products. But technological change won't automatically bring about environmental protection. Consider product tagging, which is about to expand in the market in a big way. You buy a hair dryer at the drugstore, and there's a gizmo on the box that looks like a circuit or a circle of wires, and it sets off a buzzer...
TIME: Global firms like GE and Dow have enough muscle to force--or, you might say, to free--their smaller business partners to follow better environmental standards. Is this power being used well...