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RICK SMOLAN'S "24 HOURS IN CYBERspace" was supposed to be a round-the-clock, planet-spanning online party, a feel-good cyberfest celebrating the paradigm-shifting possibilities of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Smolan, the photographer and entrepreneur behind the hugely successful Day in the Life series of photo books that document everyday life in Spain, Japan, Australia, the U.S.S.R. and the U.S., hoped to do the same for the growing world of interconnected computers...
...renegade vision and a faith that it will work distinguishes Forbes from the other candidates, whom he calls, in his charming preppy lexicon, "sourpusses" and "gloomy-doomies." Dole, with his barbed wit and allergy to abrupt innovation, is the most vulnerable to the comparison. "There's been a paradigm shift in politics, and I don't think Bob gets it," says Jan Anton, a California entrepreneur who was the state co-chair for Dole in '88 but is leaning toward Forbes this time. "Dole's a wheeler-dealer. He's just trying to hang on and avoid mistakes. Forbes...
...paradigm shift," says William Popik, Health Net's chief medical officer. "It's a shift that has taken place a lot more quickly than patients are ready for--that's absolutely true. What's shifting is, patients can't drive it anymore; patients can't decide, 'My ear hurts, so I'm going to go to the doctor today...
...maybe it's just medicine on the far side of the paradigm shift. Says Dr. Ho: "I'm sorry the panel didn't see that Health Net was doing what was best for the patient, which was to deny the treatment as investigational, and which in the end was proven the right decision...
...differently. "What should happen," he says, "is that a physician shouldn't create an expectation for a patient. Because once that expectation is completed, you start a process that is extremely difficult to change." He adds, "There are other ways to give people hope. And that's the paradigm shift...