Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...health care" and the powerful forces that are fast reshaping the culture and practice of medicine in America--not just cutting costs but changing in a fundamental way how doctors view patients, and perhaps how patients should now view doctors. In a three-month investigation, TIME chronicled Christy deMeurers' journey, but also the parallel, interlocking story of Health Net, one very prosperous company in the Southern California market, a hotbed of managed care that offers a living demonstration of what's likely to occur everywhere else as the new medicine continues its rapid advance. Taken together, the two stories provide...
...think this system is robbing physicians of their essential goodness," says Dr. Roy B. Jones, a University of Colorado bone-marrow-transplant specialist who saw Christy deMeurers during her journey. "I think physicians are slanting the opinions they give based upon monetary considerations that in many cases they wouldn't have allowed to influence them before." Vincent Riccardi, a neurologist and expert on "Elephant Man" disease, says the issue of trust in California is already moot. He has gone so far as to establish a company, American Medical Consumers, that plans one day to dispatch "personal medical advocates" to negotiate...
...soared as high as its lofty ambitions, an Icarus with wings that worked. Bandleader Billy Corgan is adept at turning out swift, radio-ready hits, yet he also excels at creating epic art-pop songs that explore enigmatic ideas and twisting melodic pathways. For listeners looking to take a journey, not just a joyride, this is a trip that shouldn't be missed...
Arecent ad in the Crimson read: "An open invitation for open minds. What will be your journey? To see the world from a string of satellites...to help build a rover to drive across the Martian landscape...to help Nike just do it. Here's your chance to step beyond the boundaries. Goldman Sachs. MINDS WIDE OPEN...
Forced into a longer journey, the spacecraft made good use of its time. It shot pictures, calibrated its instruments, conducted scientific observations of Venus and Earth during its flybys and, among other achievements, confirmed the existence of a huge impact crater on the backside of the moon. Passing twice through the asteroid belt, it snapped the first closeup images of the asteroid Gaspra and discovered the first asteroidal moon, a tiny clump (later named Dactyl) orbiting the asteroid Ida. Then in July 1994 it shot pictures of the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 plunging into Jupiter, capturing images...