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...This is an important part of the future of medicine," says health psychologist Ed Noffsinger, who introduced shared appointments to California's giant Kaiser Permanente system in 1996, and is now a full-time consultant in the field. "Most doctors are still using a system that was developed in an era of acute care, when we didn't even have antibiotics. It's a mistake to believe that same model is the best way of looking after people...
...read about China's manned space program with interest and wonder [Oct. 20]. I grew up watching the Apollo launches and hoped that by now the U.S. would have made many more giant leaps into our solar system and beyond. The Apollo lunar program was a testament to mankind's curiosity, tenacity and intellect. But it demonstrated our competitive nature and paranoia about the Soviet Union's space program. Perhaps a little competition is what we need to give the National Aeronautics and Space Administration the proper funding. I wish the Chinese success in space. It can only help...
...Sticky Labels Germany's Bertelsmann and Japanese giant Sony announced plans to merge their recorded music arms, establishing the industry's second-largest player. U.S. and E.U. competition watchdogs are bound to scrutinize...
...Unocal consultant warned Unocal in 1992 that "throughout Burma, the government habitually makes use of forced labor" and that "in such circumstances Unocal and its partners will have little freedom of maneuver," TIME's Adam Zagorin reports. TIME has obtained recently unsealed court documents that challenge U.S. oil giant Unocal's assertion that "if there were any possibility" that their oil pipeline project in Burma "was connected with human rights abuses, this would absolutely be unacceptable...
...responsible for the actions of the L.A. police department?" It will be up to the court to decide how much the oil company is responsible for what it may have ignored, but even if Unocal prevails in this case, the wave of litigation and scrutiny has forced America's giant corporations to take a fresh look at the moral code they follow in places that don?t abide by the rule...