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...national average, but up to 20% of income is based on teams' achieving performance goals. If the cardiac group keeps its complication and readmission rates below a certain level, paychecks get fatter because costs decrease. Ditto for the pediatric orthopedic team, which must successfully treat kids for, say, spinal curvature without being too quick with the knife for those who don't need surgery or too slow for those who do. "We keep cash compensation flexible and incentivized," Steele says. "That takes away some of the insane piecework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Better Way to Pay Doctors? | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...they are simply dealing with the often bewildering changes and uncertainty in our economy as breadwinners, spouses, mothers and daughters. It's not the anachronistic battle of the sexes anymore but how we all--women and men--grapple with a new economy and new era. I suppose you could say that's true equality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The American Woman | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...contained the costs of the credit crisis. Bank failures are not of the FDIC's making: the Federal Reserve failed to rein in mortgage-lending, while regulatory agencies like the Office of Thrift Supervision allowed banks to make loans without adequate capital. But the FDIC has the final say on when and how to close a bank, and some believe it has been waiting too long to act, adding to the cost of failures. Regulators labeled Chicago-based Corus Bank critically undercapitalized in March, but it took the FDIC until mid-September to shut it down--a closure that could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: Bank Failures | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...down two television stations. In April, the opposition took to the streets again to call for his resignation. But this time, Saakashvili was restrained. He let the protesters shut down the streets of the capital. Georgians grew tired of the inconvenience, and eventually everyone went home. Many opposition figures say they won't try to force him to resign before his term ends in 2013. Even Khidasheli, an ardent critic of the President, assured me, "We will not allow a revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World According to Misha: Georgia's Saakashvili | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

Closer scrutiny of last month's report of the first successfully tested AIDS vaccine suggests scientists spoke too soon. Analysis of a subset of data found that the vaccine's benefit may not be statistically significant; odds of being protected from infection could be no better than chance. Critics say the study's authors should have waited to publicize the results until after other scientists had vetted them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

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