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...Geisinger uses a little of all three strategies. Founded in 1915 as a 70-bed hospital in a small, underserved rural community, the operation now spans a 43-county region, with a total of 67 sites - stretching from one-doctor offices and in-store clinics to a sprawling main campus in Danville, Pa. Like Kaiser, the 13,000-employee Geisinger is both a care provider and an insurer. About 30% of its 783,000 patients have the in-house coverage; the remaining 70% are covered by other private insurers or Medicare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Better Way to Pay Doctors? | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...come to realize that the main reason I've never resolved my title is that it's become O.K. not to care. Whether my children's friends call me Ms. Gibbs or Mrs. May or any combination of the two, I view it as a sign of respect and don't worry about the particulars. My husband never remotely suggested that he was bothered by my not taking his name; in fact, he's accustomed to occasionally answering to Mr. Gibbs. My late father, a fine writer, thrilled to see that name in the pages of this magazine. All these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mrs., Ms. or Miss: Addressing Modern Women | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...main character in Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight’s Children, Saleem Sinai, has been called his most beloved character and is often identified with Rushdie himself. Saleem struggled with a magical “snot-nose, cucumber-nose,” as well as impotence. More greatness post-jump...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: Novelist Rushdie Dates Harvard Grad | 10/25/2009 | See Source »

...main dock in Gaza city, many of the fishermen call their predicament "an economic war." Abu Mohamed, pulled empty nets from his boat after a fruitless night of fishing. Just hours before, in the early morning, Abu Mohamed's boat had been shot at. "This is terrorism," he said. "Sometimes we feel like we are fighting to fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza's Coast Endangers Wildlife and People | 10/24/2009 | See Source »

Tourism was the country's main economic motor, but since the coup, says Martínez, Honduras' tourism industry - which grew by a robust 9% in 2008 - has plummeted 70%. The 7% tourism growth projections for 2009 are now expected to dip into the red. And the 155,000 Hondurans employed by the tourism industry are, in the words of Martínez, "suffering violently." Several TACA airlines flights to Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, which used to bring hundreds of tourists to Honduras every day, have been canceled. A project to build an international airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honduran Tourism: Selling Against a Coup | 10/24/2009 | See Source »

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