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...millions lack access to basic primary care. Troubled by a nation advanced in technology but crippled by the problem of equal access to quality health care, the doctor places his dinner selection: compassion. The consummate healer eloquently speaks of aequanimitas–a balanced state of health, wisdom, insight, and clarity...

Author: By Howard A. Zucker | Title: Banquet for a Better World: | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

Pinpointing the role equipment has played in tennis's evolution can be tricky, however. Conventional wisdom once held that more powerful racket frames led to the hard-serving power game of the late '90s. But a 1997 test by Tennis Magazine found that 6 ft. 5 in. (1.96 m) Australian Mark Philippoussis served at an average speed of 124 m.p.h. (200 km/h) with his own graphite racket, and an only slightly slower 122 m.p.h. (196 km/h) with a classic wooden racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: String Theory | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

What's good for Yuan Bo and Guanling is good for China. While the recession-racked West debates the wisdom of borrowing billions of dollars and spending it on economic stimulus, China is reaching into its vast financial reserves to launch one of the most ambitious and expensive public-works programs ever undertaken. The Baling River Bridge is only one of hundreds of infrastructure projects - ports, airports, bridges, schools, hospitals, highways, railroads - on which China plans to spend about $450 billion over the next several years. Announced in November, this pumped-up New Deal is aimed at more than cushioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's New Deal: Modernizing the Middle Kingdom | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...prison). Many of those lessons came while I was _____ (at The Crimson, in sixth grade, in solitary confinement). In the grand tradition of speakers before me, I’d like to send you out into the world with some totally original and not at all trite words of wisdom about what I’ve learned about ____ (how life imitates sport, algebra, remorse for my crimes).The first lesson is that the good guys don’t always win and the bad guys often do, especially when the bad guys are ______ (Cornell, binomials, Cornell alum Big Tony). Even...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PARTING SHOT: Parting Words Provide Choices | 5/31/2009 | See Source »

...here's a bit of counterconventional wisdom: The only person who has consistently been right about the disastrous AOL-Time Warner merger was its architect, Steve Case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why AOL–Time Warner Wasn't Doomed to Failure | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

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