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...sleek-looking, 88-bed, for-profit hospital, which opened in February, uses more than 650 computer stations made by GE Medical Systems to store records, test data and diagnostic images. Bedside terminals are intended to make patient care swifter and more customized--and safer, with mandatory bar-code scanning to cut the chance of a drug mix-up. Of course, the "paperless office" has been touted for years and has seldom materialized. But the hospital says its goals will be met if it can boost productivity...
Visit National Public Radio at its headquarters in Washington, and you might think you have accidentally wandered into a corporate headquarters. The network, which once operated out of a cramped basement, today fills a sleek seven-story building with a lobby curved like a radio wave. Its studios feature the latest digital sound gear. Executives, if prodded, talk about "branding," "revenue growth" and "audience fragmentation." They speak such words softly--NPR is, after all, a not-for-profit organization whose member stations constantly beg listeners for contributions. But it's getting harder to keep its success a hush-hush affair...
...more egalitarian but still trendy guide is the sleek new Moon Metro series, which explores cities?so far, New York, Paris, Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, London and Amsterdam?by neighborhood, with highly individualized but not snarky descriptions written by local correspondents. The guides send travelers to traditional tourist spots as well as chic shops and clubs. The chapters include detailed foldout maps that are discreet enough that you can open them on the street without looking lost...
...more egalitarian but still trendy guide is the sleek new Moon Metro series (Avalon Publishing), which explores cities--so far, New York, Paris, Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, London and Amsterdam--by neighborhood, with highly individualized but not snarky descriptions written by local correspondents. The guides send travelers to traditional tourist spots as well as chic shops and clubs. The chapters include detailed foldout maps that are discreet enough that you can open them on the street without looking lost...
...laptops by plugging into U.S. wall outlets (and foreign ones with a standard adapter), airplane armrests or car cigarette-lighter sockets. And for an extra $19, iGo's less than imaginatively named Peripheral Powering System can simultaneously charge most handheld devices and mobile phones. The Juice comes with a sleek vinyl techno-Dopp kit, so you can tote your slimmer, trimmer recharger in style. Warning: although this company's products can adapt to virtually any major-brand mobile device, you'd better check the compatibility charts on igo.com...