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Most E-mailed news on 17 August 2009 |
Op-Ed Contributor: Why We Need Health Care Reform
In the end, health care reform isn?t about politics and fear. It?s about changing a system that often works better for the health-insurance companies than it does for millions of Americans.
Novelties: Mimicking Human Cartilage to Repair a Knee
An off-the-shelf plug inserted into the damaged area can guide formation of new bone and cartilage before dissolving in about six months.
Op-Ed Columnist: ?Mad Men? Crashes Woodstock?s Birthday
While the 40th anniversary of Woodstock is getting much air time this summer, perhaps it is Don Draper?s America, the early ?60s country-at-a-pivot-point, that really resonates today.
Patient Money: The Expense of Eating With Celiac Disease
An intolerance to gluten requires a special wheat-free diet that can be costly. But some patients are finding less expensive ways to stay healthy.
Believers Invest in the Gospel of Getting Rich
Even in a downturn, preachers in the ?prosperity gospel? movement are drawing sizable, adoring audiences.
Women at Arms: G.I. Jane Breaks the Combat Barrier
Before 2001, America?s military women had rarely seen ground combat. Afghanistan and Iraq have changed that.
Op-Ed Columnist: Sarah?s Ghoulish Carousel
Despite putting out a proclamation in 2008 to plan ahead for health care decisions, Sarah Palin has managed to hijack the health care debate from President Obama with one catchy phrase.
Noticed: It?s Hip to Be Round
There's a new element to the coolster summer uniform: a burgeoning potbelly.
Emanuel Wields Power Freely, and Faces the Risks
Rahm Emanuel is emerging as possibly the most influential White House chief of staff in a generation.
Op-Ed Columnist: The Land of ?No Service?
While maintaining ?No Service? in the wild is essential for Africa?s ecotourism industry, the rest of the continent desperately needs more connectivity if it is to prosper.
While My Guitar Gently Beeps
Alex Rigopulos, a founder and the C.E.O. of Harmonix Music Systems. Big eyes (reflected from a photo in his Boston office) were watching.A Beatles video game arrives at a time when participation and simulation are changing the way we listen to music.
Can Game Theory Predict When Iran Will Get the Bomb?
A political scientist has become wealthy (and controversial) by forecasting for governments and corporations. So what?s his game?
Weinsteins Struggle to Regain Their Touch
Four years after Disney bought the Weinsteins out of Miramax, the brothers are under serious stress.
I Say Spend. You Say No. We?re in Love.
A new study shows that when it comes to money, opposites do attract: ?spendthrifts? and ?tightwads? tend to marry.
Guest Columnist: The Distant Mirror
As much fun as it is to revel in fascination at the early 1960s seen in ?Mad Men,? the series works best as a startling reminder of just how distant the near past really is.
They Seem to Find the Happiness They Seek
Through a series of films, the dancing couple Astaire and Rogers came to epitomize glamour and love on screen.
Economic View: A Public Option Isn?t a Curse, or a Cure
An insurance option run by the government would neither invigorate nor destroy the health care system.
Editorial: Lining Up for Help
Any project as ambitious and expensive as health care reform must be robustly debated, but Americans need only look to the clinics last week in California to see how much we need reform.
Health Care in Britain: Expat Goes for a Checkup
The physicist Stephen Hawking is a defender of Britain?s National Health.Notes on the National Health Service from an American who now lives in Britain.
Unboxed: The Corporate Lab as Ringmaster
Big research and development laboratories are reaching out to smaller, more varied groups of researchers.
Getting Your Wireless Network Up to Speed
New routers can transmit data faster and allow a dozen devices to be connected simultaneously.
Two Acres of Hope for Recovering Addicts
Alex Rodriguez, left, and Albert Lupo in the field.At Renewal Farm, the men tend to kale and lettuce and flowers by day, and then exorcise their worries at a rehabilitation center where they sleep.
Op-Ed Contributor: Town Halls by Invitation
With deliberative polls, rather than town halls, participants come away better informed, and the accompanying confidential questionnaires show real majorities in large constituencies.
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