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...couple hundred ob-gyns sitting around" might sound like the first line of a dirty joke, but it was a meeting of St. Louis gynecologists that brought Missouri's U.S. Senate candidates to the city's elegant University Club last week. The two played to type: Governor Mel Carnahan, the two-term Democrat, gave an earnest but dust-dry talk about how he supported a genuine patient's bill of rights and his opponent, incumbent John Ashcroft, didn't. The better orator, Ashcroft joked easily and touted his work on cutting back Medicare regulations. Judging by applause, the crowd seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missouri: It Makes New York Look Sweet | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...women of F-21 threw the engagement party for entryway tutors Jim von der Heydt and Meg Marshall. The nuptials are set for this summer.They say they want to wait to have their first child until resident Taylor Pollock becomes an Ob...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Room by Room: The Story of One Entryway | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...genuine heartfelt peace, and encourages the listener to rediscover the better side of human nature. Empowering tracks such as "Rise Up" and "Giants" invite the listener to "rise up rise up and seize the time." Also featured on the album are an excellent reggae-pop version of the Beatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" and a slower, slightly more rhythmic version of Carole King's "You've Got a Friend." These two bonus tracks "fit in with the theme of the album, which is love," Cliff explains in a press release. Cliff's sincere message of omnipresent love, whether...

Author: By Arts Writers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Albums | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

...precisely when words fail that pictures like his are most needed. Some of them are obscene in one literal sense of that word--from ob scena, Latin for offstage--the sights to be kept from the view of the audience. In the parts of the world where Nachtwey does his work, public affairs have become not much more than a subdepartment of the larger human impulse toward bloodlust. People are regularly dismembered and disfigured. Their arms are blown off, their teeth are broken, and they are starved. "I am trying to upset people," Nachtwey said recently. "I am trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Prints Of Darkness | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

With a thriving Ob-Gyn practice in Dallas, Dr. Robert Gunby never expected to complain about his working conditions. But then he never expected that managed care would transform his life. Gunby's salary has dropped 10% in the past four years, and he's had to dip into his personal savings just to pay his staff. And while he's used to nights spent in the delivery room, he says his workweek now clocks in at nearly 100 hours--up to 20 of them, he estimates, spent haggling with insurance companies over approval for drugs and treatments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unionizing The E.R. | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

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