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...sounds of children screaming. A few cases on trolley beds wait outside under a small awning. Though generally well kept, "it's very hard to maintain cleanliness even if you clean every half an hour," says the head of the outpatient department, Dr. P.K. Misra, waving his hand at a heap of bloodied sheets in a corner. "I have visited a few hospitals in the U.S. They are like five-star hotels for us. But we can never match that. It's the population load...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Medical Emergency | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...artsy. It wasn't in a skanky way." Thus did America's big sister, Miley Cyrus, describe a Vanity Fair photo by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz of herself, tousled and clutching a blanket to her torso. Many parents of fans of Disney Channel's Hannah Montana, on the other hand, saw not an homage to classical portraiture but a topless 15-year-old. Um, no, they demurred. That was totally in a skanky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Montana or Molehill? | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...team behind the firm Humantific, furiously drew and took notes. "He was really deep in the trees," Pastor says. The pair made sense of Palestrant's fuzzy ideas and turned them into huge, glossy posters with icons representing how the parts of his business fit together. Diagrams in hand, Palestrant went to venture-capital funds and returned with $40 million in start-up money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Different by Design | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...Delle family isn’t new to political service: his grandfather was the right-hand man to the first president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. Delle’s father, who was sentenced to death by firing squad in the 1970s before being acquitted, showed Delle how to make service to his country worthwhile: to focus on the people...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Learning To Aid a Continent | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...marathon. As the 112th Boston Marathon rolled around, Kelly drew upon his impending graduation as a source of motivation. “I always wanted to do it, and this was my last chance,” he says. Marianne Eagan ’10, on the other hand, found motivation outside herself. Eagan says that she and her sister made a deal to run the race together. “My sister and I just shook on it over Thanksgiving,” Eagan says. Although Eagan missed the HCMC application deadline in the fall, she managed to secure...

Author: By Emily S. Shire, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: True Overachievers | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

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