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...looking like institutional dinosaurs, exquisitely adapted to yesterday's hang-the-cost medicine practiced primarily by specialists but in need of, well, surgery to survive in tomorrow's world of intensely price-conscious managed care conducted mostly by primary-care physicians. The question is whether the teaching hospitals can slim themselves down enough to survive in this newly stingy atmosphere without sacrificing the quality and innovation that have made them the crown jewels of American medicine -- and the answer is far from clear...
...proof of age (usually a driver's license) and are off-limits to minors, and kids have to master some fairly daunting computer science before they can turn so-called binary files on the Usenet into high-resolution color pictures. "The chances of randomly coming across them are unbelievably slim," says Slifka...
...ever be cool? until last week, the evidence was slim. Yes, company chairman Louis Gerstner urged employees when he arrived two years ago to dispense with formality and send him their thoughts via E-mail. Then he instituted a dress-down policy and had IBM take out 50,000 subscriptions to Wired magazine, the chronicler of online culture. This year he paid for irreverent TV spots, including one showing one Czech nun telling another that IBM's OS/2 Warp software "sounds pretty...
...need to recognize the link between the health of Americans and the programs we fund abroad. This is not the time to eliminate foreign-assistance programs. At present, less than 1% of the budget goes to foreign aid. If Congress cuts this small amount further, we will reverse the slim gains we have made, with consequences that will be felt for generations. FRANK J. LOSTUMBO, President National Council for International Health Washington...
...three-day old crisis have hit a standstill as the 200 rebels holed up inside the building rejected an offer of safe passage to Chechnya or any country willing to accept them. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin is on his way to attempt a peaceful resolution, but his chances appear slim. The gunmen have killed five hostages already, and Basayev, who had lost all 11 members of his family to the war with Russia, insists that the Chechens will kill themselves and their captives unlessRussian troops leave Chechnya...