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Horvath was so thrilled that the day he received the doll, he carried it around with him and at one point ran into his friend Nakamura. "It was original and simple in a time when handmade plush dolls were too ornate and craftlike," says the Giant Robot owner. "The prototype had great energy and didn't ask too much in terms of analyzing it as a form or design concept. It was just easy to like. So I ordered 20." They sold out immediately. Kim sewed a second batch of a new character, Babo (Wage's blue, buck-toothed, dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are You Calling Ugly? | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

Agustina, like Alexander, sat me down at a special desk and insisted I take a bottle of branded water. Then she showed me hundreds of swatches that ran the gamut of self-consciously bizarre names, from Bitched From the Start (a Patti Smith lyric) to Adlai Stevenson. (J. Edgar Hoover is not the gayest pattern in the store; that would be Curaçao.) After considerable deliberation, I went with a pink-and-blue stripe called Equal Rights in a single-button cuff and a dark black-and-blue pattern called Levev in Napoleonic style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cuff Above | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...shift of patients can be devastating. Regionally owned Lincoln General Hospital in Ruston, La., lost about $2.5 million in business a year to imaging centers and an ASC, but was managing to stay afloat, according to CEO Tom Stone. Then, in 2003, the 40 physicians who ran the ASC opened the Green Clinic Surgical Hospital. Lincoln's inpatient and ambulatory surgeries halved, and by 2005 the hospital was $8 million in the red. "They've gone beyond cherry-picking," says Stone. "They've removed virtually everything they could take out of this facility." He is selling the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hospital Wars | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

Fresh off her victory in November, Massachusetts Attorney General-elect Martha Coakley has already begun fattening her campaign coffers again in very public fashion. This despite the fact that Coakley barely spent any money on a campaign that ran uncontested in the Democratic primary and only faced token Republican opposition in the general election...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Filling the Coffers | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

...Sifers said. “But it was just too late,” Sifers said. “We tried several times to get the puck on net, but we weren’t able to capitalize on our man-advantage and we just ran out of time.”Although Harvard outshot UConn 27-25, it failed to overcome Huskie goalie Brittany Wilson, who had a 0.927 save ratio coming into last night’s match-up.“Ultimately, I don’t think we played with the sense of urgency that we?...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Surprising Huskies Halt Winning Streak | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

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