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...CONCIERGE PRACTICES: If you long for the old days of personalized care and don't worry about the cost, this is for you. These plans are offered by doctors, not insurers. For an annual fee of several thousand dollars, you get extra service--home visits, immediate access and even a doctor to accompany you to the specialist--that is not covered by insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Where To Get Help In A Constantly Changing System | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

...sooooo good," he moans to his wife Samantha as he closes his eyes and imagines a $3,000 Sharper Image massage lounger humming away in the living room. Samantha gently shakes her head, and Chester pulls himself together. "Nope. You're right," he says. "Can't do it. Three thousand dollars for a chair is just, like, ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Linkin Park Steps Out | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

...just when Sanders had run out of ambition, the unimaginable happened: he was offered a job. The position, as a gas-station attendant in Far Rockaway, Queens, was 40 minutes from his home and paid $6 an hour. "I could just tell you a thousand stories in one minute," he said. "I can't even tell you how I feel. It's nothing to really brag about. But, hey, I am on cloud nine. I am going places. I am going to Disney World!" Sounding like he was accepting an Oscar, Sanders repeatedly credited Curtis & Associates, the job-training program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outside The Gates | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...handful of cases caused beef sales to plummet. The good news was that researchers using a mathematical model estimated that the brain-wasting BSE variant in humans may max out at 100 cases per year in Britain, ground zero for mad cow, and kill no more than a few thousand people in the coming decade. Feel any better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our A To Z Guide To Advances In Medicine | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...London's Muslim College, warns that "the idea that you can cut off the head of al-Qaeda and the body will wither is not going to happen." Ranstorp agrees. Though al-Qaeda's lair in Afghanistan may have been smashed, he says, "The snake has already laid a thousand eggs, which are hatching and slipping off in all directions." Foremost among them Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Trouble | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

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