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...keeping with the graphic innovation of the new technologies, Eisenberg and Seaman put a premium on making Time Digital visually engaging. Thanks to design director Janet Waegel and picture editor Jay Colton, the magazine has a lively mix of graphic styles, irreverent headlines and pictures and charts that depart refreshingly from their customary positions on the page. Eisenberg and Seaman also insisted that stories not succumb to technohype. Says Seaman: "We were determined not to be breathless cheerleaders for all things digital." Thus, among other heretical stories, you'll read about how technological change is not necessarily good news...
...Iguchi confession and the Leach statement immediately made things tougher for Japan's banks by increasing their cost of doing business. Japan's banks are now usually charged a premium of 0.3% to 0.4% for their international interbank borrowing. After Iguchi spoke in court, however, the "Japan premium" nearly doubled for the more troubled Japanese banks. The premium had also edged higher after Leach revealed the existence of the Fed's agreement with Tokyo. The U.S. move had a double-edged effect--while it served to reassure financial markets of an emergency backstop for Tokyo, it also implied that Japan...
...Norman Lebrecht reports that Kleiber was tapped by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra after von Karajan's passing, but refused. Of all the major classical labels, only Deutsche Grammophon proved to have enough stomach and patience to deal with him more than once, and they have finally coupled two formerly premium-priced discs to produce what is arguably the best single disc of Beethoven symphonies on the market...
Both proposals would seek big savings by increasing what Medicare recipients pay for coverage. For most, the current monthly premium of $46.10 for doctors' bills would rise to $90 or more by 2002. Those with annual incomes of more than $100,000, however, would pay $286 a month by that year. The Senate plan would also add $50 to the current $100 deductible now applied to everyone...
...provider-sponsored networks; or to plans created by large organizations like the AFL-CIO for their members; or to private insurance plans. In fact, if patients were to buy low-cost insurance that offered only catastrophic protection, the Republicans would allow them to bank the difference between their insurance premium and the average Medicare payment...