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...companies spend about $600 billion a year on health care and other employee benefits--a pot of gold that is attracting rivals to IE-Engine's niche. BenefitPoint, based in San Francisco, offers Web-based sourcing of employee benefits but keeps brokers in the loop. FreeMarkets, a $167 million sourcing-software firm based in Pittsburgh, Pa., moved into the health-care business eight months ago, placing more than $1 billion in contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweep Up That Paper! | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...complaining about. The reason this overwhelming negative attitude about Harvard persists is that most of us perceive that we have nowhere to channel our legitimate gripes. We then feed off each others’ grievances, trying to one-up each other, until we are left with a boiling pot of self pity. Because we hear these exaggerated problems over and over without resolution, we come to accept them as truths, making our perception of Harvard much worse than reality. Our complaints become a self-fulfilling prophecy...

Author: By Joseph K. Green, | Title: Strength Through Discourse | 12/6/2002 | See Source »

...swank swag, there are plenty of easy answers. Just look at her screen roles, which range from the disturbed (Beetlejuice and Girl, Interrupted) to the homicidal (Heathers and The Crucible). Or consider her loopy childhood in a Northern California commune with parents who smoked a lot of pot and chose Timothy Leary to be her godfather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Did Winona Ryder Do It? | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...native of Houston, Quaid discovered his true calling--acting--at age 18. He discovered cocaine after following his big brother Randy to Hollywood in the 1970s. One of his last roles before getting sober was the womanizing, pot-smoking producer in 1990's Postcards from the Edge. "That character was basically me," says Quaid. "It was fun to do." But then, he says, "I had one of those white-light experiences. I realized I was going to die." He says he became drug free thanks in part to Ryan, whom he married in 1991. "She stuck with me," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Back From The Edge | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

Nevada LEGAL MARIJUANA The widely discussed measure would make it legal to possess 3 oz. of pot. Defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pigs, Dentures and King Charles II | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

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