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Like Cox, many Americans are desperate to get better gas mileage, feel frustrated with fuel prices and are impatient with the pace of auto-makers' change. "Toyota could produce this [plug-in hybrid] in a heartbeat, but they are just not there yet," says Charles Tonelli, owner of Westboro Toyota in Westboro, Mass., which performed Cox's Prius conversion and has a waiting list of 96 other customers who want the same service. (Click here to see what's involved in a conversion). In the meantime, non-profits like CalCars and Plug In America are lobbying for tax credits...
...personalized service, one built around the uniqueness of each patient and the skilled physician's ability to design care accordingly. "I'm worried about training a generation of physicians who don't have the other skills they need for the optimal practice of medicine," says Dr. Mark Tonelli, a pulmonary-care specialist at the University of Washington in Seattle. "They can read the scientific literature, understand the statistics, but they don't understand how that should influence their treatment of the individual in front of them." What's more, some insurance companies have been very aggressive in using evidence-based...
KILLED. ANNALENA TONELLI, 60, humanitarian worker from Italy who founded two hospitals in Somalia and spent 30 years there assisting patients suffering from famine and tuberculosis; by a gunman; in Borama, Somalia...
DIED. ANNALENA TONELLI, 60, Italian aid worker who spent more than three decades helping sick Somalians; after being shot on the grounds of a 200-bed hospital that she founded; in Borama, Somalia. Tonelli was awarded the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' top honor in April for her work combating tuberculosis, aids, malnutrition and female-genital mutilation. She lived simply, eating the same food as her patients. "I would never believe that my life is a sacrifice," she told the Washington Post in 1993. "It is an idea that makes me laugh ... I often felt that there was nobody...