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...hottest debate is in South Africa, where nearly 3.5 million of that country's 40 million citizens are HIV-infected--more than three times the U.S. rate--and 50,000 new HIV cases emerge each month. Drug prices tend to be high, a holdover from apartheid, when price premiums were needed to encourage foreign companies to override sanctions. Says Mojanku Gumbi, an adviser to South Africa's new President, Thabo Mbeki: "This is not about intellectual property rights. It's about pricing structure and segmenting of markets. We are saying that the drug companies can't make the same profits...
DEJA VU The hottest machines at PC Expo in New York City last week looked suspiciously similar to a PC made by the one big company that didn't show, Apple. Daewoo Telecom's Future Power, for example, unveiled an all-in-one Windows PC called the E-Power that comes in five flavors, er, colors--amethyst, ruby, topaz, emerald and sapphire. Bad news for Steve Jobs: E-Power will ship at about two-thirds the price of the iMac...
Forget Cecilia Bartoli. The hottest female name in classical music right this second is a perky little Welsh soprano named Charlotte Church. Her first CD, Voice of an Angel (Sony Classical), went double platinum in Britain and rose to No. 4 on the U.K. pop charts. In recent weeks she's been seen in the U.S. on The Rosie O'Donnell Show and Late Show with David Letterman. Her summer schedule includes pledge-drive appearances on public-TV stations across the country and a June 14 benefit performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington that President Clinton was expected...
STOP KICKING THE SEAT! Tired of playing Geography during those long family trips? Ford and Oldsmobile are offering frustrated parents extra ways to keep their squirmy kids occupied. Some of their cars and minivans contain entertainment units. Not only will the little ones be able to watch the hottest Blockbuster release, but they can also hone their skills at Super Mario Brothers and Zelda. It sure beats having them ask, "Are we there...
...have problems with HMOs gotten? Bad enough for doctors, at least, to start thinking about the unthinkable: forming a union. The idea of taking a cue from blue-collar-labor history is one of the hottest topics at this week?s convention of the American Medical Association in Chicago. Many doctors around the country are growing increasingly frustrated at the restrictions that HMO money-vetting procedures have imposed on the exercise of their medical judgment. And a growing number of them want to do something about...