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...plans operate differently: any U.S. citizen or legal resident can enroll through an employer. Blue Shield's Access Baja HMO lets members who live or work within 50 miles of the border choose a primary-care doctor in Tijuana or Mexicali (convenient for agricultural workers in California's Imperial Valley), while those farther away must choose U.S. doctors for themselves but can enroll spouses and children living in Mexico with providers in those cities. Salud con Health Net offers HMO plans with similar rules. It also offers a statewide PPO plan that allows members throughout California to travel to Mexico...
ALTMAN: Every time I increase our pension benefit to fight companies that have stock options in Silicon Valley, my younger employees go crazy because they couldn't care less about the pension...
...euros are at stake, and anxious mobile-phone operators are coveting data services, a crucial new source of revenue as voice revenues decline. "These are steps in the right direction toward mobile devices becoming a good window onto the Web," says Ross Bott, a venture capitalist at Silicon Valley-based Redpoint Ventures. Of course, we've heard that song before. The fact is that about 70% of cell phones sold worldwide in 2002 are capable of surfing the Net through wireless application protocol (WAP) browsers. But almost no one does, because WAP proved to be a miserable experience rather than...
...Ohio (an arts center); Innsbruck, Austria (a café-topped ski jump, which opened last month); Abu Dhabi (a sinuous bridge); and, biggest of all, Singapore, where her team drew up the master plan for a high-tech city on a 200-hectare site, a sort of Singapore Silicon Valley scheduled to take 20 years and something like $15 billion to complete. The diversity of her projects springs from Hadid's ability to marry florid form to nuts-and-bolts function, as in the Leipzig car plant for BMW: Hadid has designed the building around its product. "The entire work...
...Akbar is an urbane, educated and thoughtful military man who is currently teaching himself English. A Soviet-educated professional soldier, he had been one of many who left the communist regime during the Soviet occupation to join the resistance in the Panjshir Valley led by the charismatic Ahmad Shah Massoud. He fought in the Northern Alliance against the Taliban and was on the frontlines during last year's U.S.-led bombing campaign. In the new order of president Hamid Karzai, Akbar is a man on the rise. Though he owes his position to the powerful defense minister, Mohammed Qasim Fahim...