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...frustration of doctors is more than a matter of money. The real blow to the profession has been the assault on autonomy. Physicians spend endless days and long years acquiring an extraordinarily specialized skill and then find themselves being told by some 23-year-old HMO administrator a thousand miles away how many minutes they can spend with a patient, how long they can keep him in the hospital and what kind of treatment they are allowed to give him. The introduction of managed care may be societally necessary to keep down costs. But we should at least recognize...
...pollen counts and hypnotic green radar maps, often for hours on end. But the weather engaged, according to the channel's research, make up only about 40% of its audience, so viewership lurches from flood to drought: a couple of million viewers in severe weather, a few hundred thousand during normal periods. If you watch the Weather Channel merely to get your weather, you are part of Burke's problem. And he is hoping he has the solution: Storm Stories (weeknights, 8 p.m. E.T.), the Weather Channel's heavily promoted first venture into a regular series...
...Land mines are designed to maim, not to kill. They are weapons of terror.” Kalbusch said. “Producing a land mine costs about a dollar, removing it costs a thousand...
...president. The stock price had gone through the roof, and she and her friends at work would sometimes talk of retiring early, taking care of their parents and starting their own businesses. Cooper harbored a girlish dream of starting a bead shop. She had even ordered a couple hundred thousand beads, which still sit in her garage...
...corporate America, accounting scams of the kind practiced at Enron and WorldCom will continually need to be exposed and corrected before yet another phalanx of high-level operators gets the wrong idea and a thousand Enrons bloom. And the people best positioned to call them on it will be sitting in offices like the ones that Watkins and Cooper occupied. The new Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which requires CEOs and CFOs to vouch for the accuracy of their companies' books, is just one sign of what Cooper calls "a corporate-governance revolution across the country...