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Over two spring days in 1959, trumpeter Miles Davis convened five other musicians at a Manhattan studio for a new recording project. Released 50 years ago this week, the resulting album - Kind of Blue - became one of the best-selling and most influential jazz recordings of all time. Drummer Jimmy Cobb is the last surviving performer from the celebrated album, which also featured jazz legends John Coltrane, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and Bill Evans. Now 80, Cobb continues recording and is currently touring the world through January with his band to mark the anniversary. He spoke with TIME about Kind...
...That kind of grassroots campaigning might be a candidates' best shot during this election. For now, a change in the law is not on the docket. Hitoshi Miura, a Tokyo-based political PR strategist, says it might even change after the election. "Sure it's a problem now," he says, "but they will forget about because it's not a serious matter for them after the election." That, not only with regard to the campaign process, is something the electorate might want to bear in mind over the next 12 days...
...What kind of end-of-life-care counseling do you provide to your patients? How does it work? Many patients have chronic illness and some disability or medical issue, and part of providing care is to speak with them about what to expect with their illness, what alternatives exist, and to have a conversation about what their preferences are. This shouldn't just happen at the end of life. You should get to know people and have these conversations throughout providing care. I like to talk individually with the patient if they are comfortable with that. If they are more...
...claims to be the world's largest salary survey. Its 2009 College Salary Report uses data supplied by 1.2 million visitors who went to the site and plugged in all sorts of info to find out whether their salary was in line with those of people doing the same kind of work in their geographic area...
...minimum package of benefits and a guarantee against exclusion for pre-existing health conditions. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has even gone so far as to suggest that a public plan might be necessary only as a backup, if that new system failed to produce the kind of competition that is necessary to bring down health-care costs. (See a multimedia story about health care for the uninsured...