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...Jim McDonough went into the hospital in 1997 to have a calcified growth, which the doctor said could be cancerous, removed from his neck. Two days later he awoke to find himself paralyzed from the chest down. Still in the intensive-care unit, he felt strangled by a noose of pain and needed three excruciating gasps of air to cry for help. "I was crushed," says McDonough, 69, a former weapons-plant inspector from Littleton, Colo. He once loved to fish and dreamed of restoring his ideal car: a 1965 Chrysler. But he soon realized that he could do neither...
...Colorado's unusually strict damage cap, the state's largest insurer raised premiums 14% this year, the biggest jump in 15 years. So far at least, the cap law is failing to deliver the relief that it promised to doctors even as it blocks relief to acknowledged victims like Jim McDonough. --By Rita Healy/Denver
...store employees to be able to answer questions about merchandise? In many cases, yes. "If you're shopping where you expect the rock-bottom price, they're just not going to be able to afford to put a bright, well-informed sales associate in front of you," says consultant Jim Dion of Dionco, based in Chicago. High-volume stores such as Kmart and Target hold prices down in part by keeping payroll expenses low, generally less than 5% of sales. Stores like the Gap or Abercrombie & Fitch may spend double that. But even at discount king Wal-Mart, "associates have...
...looking even further ahead to a roving pre-checkout system, using wireless technology for mobile cashiers. Home Depot, based in Atlanta, recently invested heavily in self-checkout technology, which should be fully online by this summer. A cash outlay isn't the only answer or even the best one. Jim Dion notes that in the Midwest, Jewel grocery stores, a division of Albertson's, have their cashiers circle the preferred-customer savings on the register tape before handing it to the shopper. "Nice little touch," Dion says approvingly. "Maybe they could add to that a sincere 'thank you,' which would...
...least some of them may soon get a second chance.? According to Marine Col. Jim Frawley, a top advisor to the Bremer team, the U.S. plans to begin recruiting a new Iraqi security force by the end of this month. In an interview today with TIME and National Public Radio, Frawley said the initial all-volunteer, 40,000-man light infantry unit that will be deployed to provide basic security? throughout Iraq and will assist U.S. forces in clearing battlefield sites...