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...Ireland as they had been in America, but life did not much improve on those rare occasions when Frank's father Malachy found work. As McCourt recalls in a spunky, bittersweet memoir called Angela's Ashes (Scribner; 364 pages; $24), his dad was both a kindly parent and a world-class rummy. Sober enough during the week, on paydays Malachy McCourt would guzzle away his wages at a pub and, late Friday night, stagger home, penniless. There, while his wife Angela wept and railed, he would coax his sons into singing old patriot tunes and roar that they must...
...days "visiting" his patients via telephone. He calls not to chat but to analyze the details of their care through telemedicine links between Henry Ford Hospital and clinics across rural Michigan. Weiss runs Ford Hospital's Genetics and Birth Defects Center, a regional research hub. Telemedical technology brings his world-class experience to locales hundreds of miles afield--and to more than one place at once...
That is how it goes in theory, at least. The hantavirus outbreak is an example of what can happen when everything goes right: a concentrated cluster of cases to catch the attention of doctors; an excellent local public-health system; a world-class lab a few hours away by plane; and quick identification of the microbe, the carrier and the mode of transmission. But the reality, as any military commander knows, is that the best strategy is useless without the resources to implement...
...transformation that has set Microsoft on the road to a Net-based future has also completed Gates' beatification as not just a great hacker but also a world-class CEO. Microsoft's warp-speed reinvention may set the standard for information-age corporate agility. "I don't think you'd be interviewing me on this topic if we were any less nimble," Gates told Time. "You'd be writing our epitaph...
That put extra pressure on Microsoft to deliver a world-class browser. Explorer 2.0, the browser Microsoft released early this spring, was a poor second cousin to Navigator 2.0. Gates knew Internet Explorer 3.0 had to be far better. So the company began throwing bodies at the problem. From August to November 1995, the browser group grew from eight to 30 employees. By the time Explorer 3.0 was released last month, that number had risen...