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Patients rarely question the drugs their doctors prescribe. But the truth is that doctors don't always prescribe the best or cheapest treatment. Actually, they don't always know what that is, given that they lack the time to keep up with the latest drug journal articles, pore over research on the Web or attend medical conferences. One of doctors' most convenient sources of new-drug information is, therefore, also the most biased: the chipper, gift-laden pharmaceutical salespeople who come to doctors' offices bearing free samples, prescribing tips and copies of the latest study that shows how great their...
...voter registration figures" aren't everybody's idea of a good time, but voting experts pore over obscure and apparently random registration data the way seismologists measure tiny movements in the earth's crust in order to predict when an earthquake is coming...
...nearby Nanhe Sports Center, where 8,000 quake victims live, resembles a small city in its size and organization. At the gate, people sleep on sacks of laundry detergent. Others pore over lists of injured. The biggest fear is infectious disease, and doctors and nurses wander through the crowds giving evaluations. Children sit in the field and watch a movie featuring Taiwan film star Jay Chou. Classical music plays over the loudspeakers. Lines of residents completing registration forms snake through the complex. Zhu Linzhen, 40, stands with her son, fighting to maintain her spot. "We have nothing," she says...
...culture. And as the plotline dips between Paris, London, New York, and St. Petersburg, it seems as if the grandeur of strange historical vibrancy that city represents not only oozes into the lives of characters living in the other cities, but also into the characters themselves, eventually filling every pore of the novel with its dark, evocative ambiance. “Pravda” is a novel as much about the strange toughness and complexity of Russian culture as it is about its characters or its plot, and that culture richly colors every page...
...newsroom at Moscow's Novaya Gazeta does not feel like a battleground. It's a series of cramped, fluorescent-lit offices, as quiet as a library in the hallways. But behind the closed doors, there's energy. Young journalists (average age: around 30) pore over the stories and photographs that will make the next day's issue of a newspaper in a very dangerous business--being the most strident voice of opposition in Vladimir Putin's Russia...