Newsweek articles from October 2006

Newsweek archives from October 2006

What Little Town Blues? For 21st-century design, it's smaller cities that rule.(new Denver Art Museum)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan The fabled architectural sketch on a cocktail napkin has made a comeback. But in the case of the new Denver Art Museum, it was a boarding pass--Daniel Libeskind says he grabbed it as he flew over the city: "I...

Through Her Lens; In her new book, Annie Leibovitz, our most famous photographer, places celebs side by side with surprisingly personal images of love and loss. An exclusive.(Cover story)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan (With Jac Chebatoris) Annie Leibovitz is tired and nursing a cold, and she' s just flown back to New York on the red-eye from Los Angeles, where she spent two days shooting Angelina Jolie for Vogue. Like so many of...

On the Lost Highway; Cormac McCarthy sends a father and son on the scariest road trip he can imagine. Seat belts fastened?
October 2, 2006... Byline: Malcolm Jones For a more than decent summary of the plot of Cormac McCarthy's latest novel, "The Road," consult the Library of Congress boilerplate that follows the book's title page: "1. Fathers and sons--Fiction. 2. Voyages and...

One Hedge Fund's Wilting Fortunes.(Amaranth)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Allan Sloan We at NEWSWEEK don't print obituaries before our subject has been officially declared dead. But I'd like to make an exception for Amaranth, the hedge fund that became famous last week for losing $6 billion of its...

Swell Sulpher Edition.
October 2, 2006... Fresh from their Havana summit, the world's tin-pot loudmouths take over U.N. discourse with U.S. bashing. Was Bolton right? Bush + Loony Venez. leader calls him "The Devil," generating sympathy. Why didn't Rove think of this?...

Copiers: Keys to Company Info.(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Linda Stern Copier security isn't just about making sure you take your resume off the machine before your boss gets there. As copiers, printers and other office tools become more sophisticated, they become more hackable. ...

Pointing to Tomorrow.(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Linda Stern At the University of North Carolina, English majors can minor in entrepreneurship, non-business-school freshmen take seminars in starting companies and faculty members can get money to create new business classes. The...

Quick Read.(Mavericks at Work)(Make Money, Not Excuses)(The Starfish and the Spider)(Book review)
October 2, 2006... Byline: John Sparks Mavericks at Work by William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre Thinking differently is one thing, but what about actually doing differently? That's precisely the key to success for each of the three dozen companies...

Remedies Reborn; The newest high-end spa treatments take their inspiration from ancient Chinese medicine.(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Chinese medicine has moved out of the apothecary and into the most chic five-star spa resorts. Leading the pack: the major hotels in Asia, which have recently begun offering treatments based on ancient health...

Wisdom From the Big Digg; Kevin Rose's Web site lets the masses compose their own front page.(Interview)
October 2, 2006... Byline: STEVEN LEVY Some people say that the current Internet boom peaked when a national business magazine put a 29-year-old dude on the cover, declaring that the kid made $60 million in 18 months. Actually, Kevin Rose, founder of...

The Netflix Effect; Vacation homes are hardly the only luxury items that you can borrow. How about a Ferrari or a Gucci handbag?
October 2, 2006... Byline: Jessica Ramirez When Nicole Cross opened the mail on a recent evening, she found a padded white envelope that gave her a reason to grin. She quickly tore it open to try on the contents: a pair of 14-karat-gold hoop earrings adorned...

Coming to America; The Brazilian-made Obvio! will either be the little green car that could or, as one blogger put it, just 'roadkill.'.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Mac Margolis (With Karen Breslau) When automotive enthusiast Ricardo Machado made his play for the U.S. car market last year, no one paid him much mind. Machado, a lawyer and real-estate broker in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was by his...

Something Brewing; Green Mountain, a specialty-coffee roaster, is betting a whole lotta beans on a one-cup-machine maker.(Company overview)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Barrett Robert Stiller has a knack for getting it right. In 1981, when he bought a specialty-coffee roaster in Vermont, instant coffee was more the norm and Starbucks hadn't spread beyond Seattle. But Stiller was convinced...

Tales From Travelers; Stranded in Kurdistan, sick in Bratislava--but, hey, life's good when you're wearing a snappy tie.
October 2, 2006... We asked readers to tell us about some of their most unusual business trips--and offer advice: Geoff Kronik Brookline, Mass. With my shoes off, laptop out and boarding pass held mug-shot style across my chest, I headed through the...

Toying With Wine.(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Rebecca Hall If you can't sate your inner oenophile with stylish wine-glasses, there are plenty of cool new accessories on the market. The Wine Sceptre (who wouldn't want to own a sceptre ?) is a metal wand you freeze to keep a...

A Kingly Chess Set.(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Allan Madrid Yell "checkmate!" in style. The House of Staunton, a chess-set maker based in Toney, Ala., displays meticulous attention to detail in its new Sheffield line ($1,495; houseofstaunton.com ), introduced last month. The...

Capital Ideas.(employee stock options )
October 2, 2006... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn (Reporter Associate: Temma Ehrenfeld) You may remember that employee stock options were supposed to make everybody rich. Well, they made some people rich who hit the market right and exercised their options in...

Wall Street Weaselwords; Pretexting, backdating, market timing. So many of the phrases that catch on in the business world obscure what's really happening. Can't we use just plain English?(Essay)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Allan Sloan There are times when having an English degree comes in handy for looking at the business world. This is one of those times, because the only way to grasp the essence of the Hewlett-Packard and "backdated" stock-options...

Man of Leisure; Steve Case made Exclusive Resorts No. 1 in the destination-club industry--one $20 million property at a time.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Daniel McGinn If anyone needed a good vacation during the past few years, it was Steve Case. In early 2000, the celebrated founder of America Online engineered AOL's merger with Time Warner, which turned into the dot-com era's most...

Mail Call.(Letter to the editor)
October 2, 2006... Boardroom Drama at Hewlett-Packard Clearly fed up with corporate shenanigans, readers of our Hewlett-Packard cover story let loose. "We haven't even had a chance to get past the Enron scandal and other high-profile crimes committed by head...

A Species Yet Not Extinct; Some people say more troops--50,000 more--should be sent to Iraq. Ike Skelton says: 'Oh, we have the troops. But are they ready? No.'.
October 2, 2006... Byline: George F. Will Republicans regret, or say they do, that there are no more "Truman Democrats" --Democrats as hardheaded about national security as was the president who formulated the cold-war policy of containment. That regret must...

The Rise of Jihadistan; Five years after the Afghan invasion, the Taliban are fighting back hard, carving out a sanctuary where they--and Al Qaeda's leaders--can operate freely.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Ron Moreau, Sami Yousafzai and Michael Hirsh (With Zahid Hussain in Islamabad and John Barry in Washington) You don't have to drive very far from Kabul these days to find the Taliban. In Ghazni province's Andar district, just over a...

What Iranians Least Expect; What if Bush publicly offered to open an embassy in Tehran?
October 2, 2006... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) If you think Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said some crazy things, none comes close to this: "If the worst came to worst and half of mankind died, the other half would...

Dangerous Neighborhood; Hard questions about nukes, civil war and other sore topics for the presidents of two of the hottest spots in the Middle East.(Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani)(Interview)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Lally Weymouth Iran and Iraq go side by side, not only on maps but among America's most urgent challenges. As the U.N. General Assembly convened last week in New York, the two presidents talked separately to NEWSWEEK's Lally...

This Week Online.(Editorial)
October 2, 2006... Q&A: Barack Obama NEWSWEEK: As you've traveled around the country, many people seem to really respond to you. Why? Democratic Senator from Illinois: It's always hard to stand outside yourself and know what it is that people are...

The Editor's Desk.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Mark Whitaker I have always been a big fan of Annie Leibovitz--and so has almost every other magazine editor in the business. When the American Society of Magazine Editors last year asked its members to choose the best 40 covers of...

The Royal Treatment; In 'The Queen,' Helen Mirren is sublime as Princess Di's distant mother-in-law.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz When Helen Mirren was growing up in postwar London, millions of Britons revered the royal family. Mirren's parents were not among them. "They didn't like the class system, and the royal family is the pinnacle of...

Passing the Pen Down To the Next Generation; I wanted to be author of my daughter's destiny, but I realized it's time for her to write her own endings.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Lynne Smelser (Smelser lives in Brighton, Miss.) In this age of internet chat, videogames and reality television, there is no shortage of mindless diversions to keep a child occupied. And yet, despite the competition, my 8-year-old...

In Rove's Footsteps; They learned from the master, and are applying the lessons in the hottest races ahead. Meet the architect's proteges.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Richard Wolffe In a darkened edit room in downtown Dallas, admaker Scott Howell is tinkering with his latest political firebomb. The ad starts with illegal immigrants running across the border. It then cuts to images of Osama bin...

Battlefield Flashbacks; For many Vietnam veterans, the Iraq war is a trauma trigger.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Dan Ephron Scott Cameron and Dennis Kanke had a lot in common. Residents of Duluth, Minn., both fought in Vietnam and returned home with traumas that lingered for decades. Both clawed their way out of the pit with the help of...

Who Is George Allen, Anyway? In a campaign, developments that might otherwise be one-day stories end up crystallizing deeper doubts about a candidate.(Biography)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Alter In a subdued speech at the end of a rough week, Virginia Sen. George Allen didn't mention anything to the evangelical Family Research Council about his discovery of his Jewish heritage. He didn't reassure his...

Newsmakers.(Interview)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Marc Peyser, Devin Gordon Cameron Diaz Snaps Back The camera loves Cameron Diaz, but that doesn't mean that she cares much for cameramen. Last week Diaz filed a police report accusing a paparazzo of assault with a deadly...

Perspectives.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Quotation sources: New York Times, Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Washington Post, Associated Press, New York Times (2), The Independent, Associated Press, Reuters, Associated Press "We haven't even begun rearming." Hizbullah...

Hewlett-Packard: One Chief Gone, Another Tries to Hang On.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Brad Stone Hewlett-Packard CEO and newly named chairman Mark Hurd is hoping to keep his name off the growing list of corporate casualties in Silicon Valley's worsening spy scandal. At an unusual press conference last Friday in...

CIA: Probe Into Renditions.(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball As many as 20 CIA officials and contractors could face legal charges in Germany for their alleged role in the abduction of Khaled el-Masri, a German national once wrongly suspected of involvement...

Coming Home.(space shuttle Atlantis returned last week )(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... The space shuttle Atlantis returned last week from a nearly flawless 12-day mission to resume construction of the International Space Station. NASA had put the project on hold for three and a half years after the Columbia disaster.

Fast Chat: 'Nobody Wants Me'.(Bill O'Reilly)(Interview)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Darman Fox News king Bill O'Reilly has a new book, "Culture Warrior," in stores this week. He caught up with Jonathan Darman. Have you always been a culture warrior? When I designed ["The O'Reilly Factor"] in 1995,...

Sports: Walking Wounded.(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Devin Gordon In professional sports, not all injuries are created equal. Consider the divergent fortunes of New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui and New England Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi. Matsui broke his wrist in May...

BeliefWatch: God's Gift.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Holly Lebowitz Rossi When sex is discussed in religious circles, the conversation is usually about morality: what you should and shouldn't do . But apparently for many Americans, sex is not just moral, physical or emotional--it's...

Exclusive: Harry Potter and the Wavering Costar.
October 2, 2006... Byline: SEAN SMITH Harry Potter" might lose one of its stars. The fifth film in the series, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," is currently filming at Leavesden Studios north of London. Negotiations to lock in Daniel Radcliffe...

Trickle-Up Economics? No one should be happy with today's growing inequality. It threatens our social compact, which relies on a shared sense of well-being.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson If you're in Asheville, N.C., stop by Biltmore, the vast estate that George Vanderbilt III--heir to a railroad fortune--constructed between 1889 and 1895. You can tour most of its 250 rooms, including 43...

Snap Judgment: Movies.(All the King's Men)(The Last King of Scotland)(Movie review)
October 2, 2006... Byline: David Ansen All the King's Men Directed by Steven Zaillian Despite Sean Penn's meaty, lip-smacking performance as the populist demagogue Willie Stark--novelist Robert Penn Warren's fictional version of Louisiana Governor...

Snap Judgment: Books.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Raina Kelley, David Gates, Marc Peyser Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood If only we had Margaret Atwood around us always, making our lives' hard choices and awkward impasses seem not only inevitable but graceful. This...

The Benefits of Busy; A new study finds that 'overscheduling' is a myth.(child raising)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Daniel McGinn (With Karen Springen and Joan Raymond) For many families, figuring out how many after-school activities are too many is a struggle. For parents who fear they're "overscheduling" their children, a new study carries a...

They're Seeing Red Over Greens.(E. coli in spinach crop in Salinas Valley, California)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Matthew Philips Since 1990, Don Patterson has grown and sold nearly 50 million pounds of conventional fresh market spinach from his small farm in Cranbury, N.J. No one has ever reported getting sick from eating it, and he's never...

They Call Her 'Lucy's Daughter'; A 3 million-year-old ancestor speaks to us.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Mary Carmichael It's been 3.2 million years since she died--and 32 since she was unearthed from the Ethiopian desert and christened after a Beatles song--but the prehuman fossil known as Lucy can still draw a crowd. Six hundred...

Health: Getting Ready To Roll.(babies)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Karen Springen From the day Avrick Altmann was born 15 months ago, his mom, Dr. Tanya Remer Altmann, has kept him moving. She gave him plenty of "tummy time" on the floor. She held up bright objects and rattles so he would lift his...

Checklist.
October 2, 2006... Our top picks for the week ahead. BUY 'Pride and Prejudice': Limited Edition ($60). Fans will swoon for this gold-embossed set of the classic BBC mini-series with Colin Firth. GO to Europe with deals from studentuniverse.com. London...

Road Test: Mazda Speed3; All revved up.(Product/service evaluation)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Tara Weingarten It you think car writers live to test exotic sports cars on a racetrack, you're right. So when Mazda invited me recently to the notoriously fast Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, Calif., to sample its new...

Ask Tip Sheet.(Hollywood star salary)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Sean Smith When a Hollywood star is said to make $20 million a picture, how much does he actually get to keep? --Pam Lackey, Albuquerque, N.M. Of an actor's $20 million salary, 10 percent goes to his agent. His business...

Cameras: Modern Retro.(Panasonic new Lumix DMC-L1 )(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: George Hackett Panasonic has clicked with its Lumix line of digital point-and-shoot cameras, which feature Leica lenses. The new Lumix DMC-L1 is the brand's first digital single-lens-reflex model, and shooters who grew up with the...

Food: Vegas For Gourmets.(Las Vegas has been flooded with brand-name chefs)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Fareed Zakaria In the past decade, Las Vegas has been flooded with brand-name chefs. But few of their restaurants have become destinations in their own right. Now that's changing. At the highest end, two French chefs have arrived...

Are There Blue Skies Ahead? Home sales are falling, but Century 21's CEO says his house is in order.(Tom Kunz )(Interview)(Industry overview)
October 9, 2006... Byline: Daniel McGinn There's no popping sound--not yet anyway. But for doomsayers who've been worried about a housing bubble, data released last week brought long-awaited news: after months of slowing sales, in August the median existing...

Speechless In Seattle; What has happened in Seattle prefigures what a national Democratic administration might try to do to stifle ?conservative talk radio.
October 9, 2006... Byline: George F. Will Seattle--as the comprehensive and sustained attack on Americans' freedom of political speech intensifies, this city has become a battleground. Campaign-finance "reformers," who advocate ever-increasing government...

Blood, Guts and Money; Don't look now, but mixed martial arts has gone mainstream.(Ultimate Fighting Championship)
October 9, 2006... ***** CORRECTION: Correction: Our story "Blood, Guts and Money" (Oct. 9) contained an outdated domestic-revenue figure for WWE's 2006 WrestleMania event. The correct figure is $31.8 million. NEWSWEEK regrets the error. ***** ...

The Clinic: A No-Spin Zone; It's the determination to stay within the zone of privacy that has made abortion an easy mark for cheap mythology and easy demonization.(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Anna Quindlen For anyone who has spent a lifetime listening to the bumper-sticker rhetoric of abortion politics, hearing Renee Chelian describe how she does things at the Michigan clinics she oversees is, no question, a shock to...

Don't Get Excited. It's Just the Dow.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Allan Sloan Have you recovered yet from celebrating the Dow's reaching record highs last week? Hope you didn't go too wild. Hangovers can be so nasty--though it sure was fun watching folks on the New York Stock Exchange floor whoop...

Paging the Pages Edition.(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Louisiana guv Edwin Edwards famously said the only way he'd lose was if he was caught "with a dead girl or a live boy." Ouch. Bush - Only good thing about Foley scandal is it keeps spotlight off Iraq fiasco. Gulp. Hastert...

The Face Business.(Facelogic International)(Product/service evaluation)(Company overview)(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Linda Stern Pedicures have been popularized, so why not facials? A new franchise dedicated to that idea is spreading faster than untreated crow's feet. Facelogic International, of Carlsbad, Calif., is following the...

Sit, Stay Awhile.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Linda Stern Cross a hotel room with an apartment and you get a popular concept in business travel: the extended-stay hotel. Aimed at workers who spend more than four days in one location, extended-stay hotels offer more room,...

Get the Man To a Monet!(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Linda Stern Who's majorly affected by your mental state? The boss. Depressed workers can cost employers big bucks due to lost productivity. In 2002, for example, workers suffering from depression cost Lockheed Martin $786,000 in...

Clean Out Your IN Box in the Car.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Linda Stern Road warriors might want to make room on their dashboards for one more gadget. Coming in early 2007: the iLane, a device that will read e-mail aloud and allow users to reply, forward--or, perhaps most important,...

Quick Read.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 16, 2006... Byline: John David Sparks Red, White, and Drunk All Over By Natalie MacLean As escape fantasies go, it's an appealing one: a thirtysomething chucks a career in tech marketing to build a living around her love of wine. MacLean succeeds...

Data Points.(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... $130 Price of one ounce of Beluga caviar from finecaviar.com $215 Midweek rate for non-members to play a round of golf and eat lunch at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, home of the 2006 British Open $14, 000 Cost of one night in the...

Sticking to The Business; Jake Winebaum rode the boom and weathered the bust. Now he's focusing on work--dot-com style.(Interview)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Steven Levy While some entrepreneurs in the current boom are proving that there are second acts in America, others are quietly proving that the first act isn't over. Case in point: Jake Winebaum. After starting Disney's first big...

The Scissor Sisters; Can three siblings create a fashion empire out of whole cloth?(Company overview)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Sarah Childress It's not a stretch to say Samantha, Caillianne and Chloe Beckerman live for fashion. Their Manhattan apartment is crammed with garment racks and the coffee table is littered with sketches and fabric swatches. This...

Make the Most of Mealtime.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Barrett Think that eating lunch at your desk makes you more productive? Not necessarily. "What you can accomplish in an hour at a business lunch more than compensates for the work you could have done at the office," says...

A Smooth Ride; Thanks to savvy marketing and a smart blend of modern technology and Old World craftsmanship, Bentley is winning the battle of the 'budget' luxury cars.(Product/service evaluation)(Company overview)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Keith Naughton The rapper Xzibit made his name customizing cars. But when it came time for the host of MTV's "Pimp My Ride" to purchase his most expensive car ever, he didn't change a thing. His $200,000 gray green Bentley...

Pretty, Pricey Puzzles.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Sana Butler Prized by collectors of fine art, the creative work of Steve Richardson evokes a vast array of emotions through intricate geometric designs. But his compositions are not paintings. They're jigsaw puzzles designed on...

A Welcome Sight.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Rebecca Hall Aging fashionistas no longer have to consider reading glasses a necessary evil. With spectacles this cool, you may even wish for your eyes to go. Show your style with Gucci's Insect line--brown or black spectacles with...

Capital Ideas.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn Memo to those who think it's OK to pay fees of 3 percent or more for tax-deferred annuities and other investments: in terms of purchasing power, those fees will eat up most--or all--of your future gains. The fees...

Reversal of Fortune; Short-term money isn't supposed to yield more than long-term investments. But some money-market mutual funds are topping 30-year Treasury securities. Huh?
October 16, 2006... Byline: Allan Sloan We all know there's no such thing as a free lunch. But every once in a while, you may think you see one. So what do you do? Answer: check carefully to find the price--because there always is one. Today's case in...

One Rich Ragtop; In a test-drive, the Bentley Continental GTC works its magic on an old Detroit hand. A perfect blend of man and machine.(Product/service evaluation)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Keith Naughton As the sun sets on Golden Vineyards in Napa Valley, I wind my way through mountain switchbacks and become lost. And I couldn't care less. I'm too enthralled by the power and the glory that is the Bentley Continental...

Sky-High Map Guys; Google Earth brought satellite photography to the masses. As competitors try to catch up, the old business of aerial mapping is taking off in the Internet age.(Product/service evaluation)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Brad Stone If you were in Los Angeles recently and noticed a twin-engine Cessna Turbo 310 crisscrossing the sky in meticulously parallel lines, several times a day for more than a week, you were probably watching one of Ken...

Mail Call.(Letter to the editor)
October 16, 2006... An Acclaimed Photographer Records Life Readers responded en masse to our cover on the photography of Annie Leibovitz, saying they wished we'd put our article about the resurgence of the Taliban (which ran at length inside the magazine) on...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Jon Meacham A decade ago, my wife and I spent a long, lovely--and, if memory serves, rather liquid--evening in Atlanta with Bill Emerson, a charming bear of a man who had covered the civil-rights movement for NEWSWEEK. Emerson was...

Case Study: Facing Up To Mistakes; An injured patient and her doctor help to create change at Brigham and Women's.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Claudia Kalb Linda Kenney is an advocate for change. Born with club feet, Kenney was a hospital veteran, enduring 19 surgeries before she was admitted to Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital in November 1999. Kenney assumed her...

Disclose, Apologize, Explain.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Lucian Leape, M.D. (Leape is adjunct professor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. For more information, go to health.harvard.edu.) Progress is being made in reducing medical mistakes, but we're never going to...

Case Study: A Standard Approach; Simple protocols, rigorously followed, make the difference at Cooley Dickinson.(Cooley Dickinson Hospital )
October 16, 2006... Byline: Mary Carmichael It's been 124 years since caleb Cooley Dickinson, cousin of the poet Emily, endowed the hospital in Northampton, Mass., that bears his name--and he'd barely recognize the modern institution it has become. Cooley...

Case Study: The Goal Is to Communicate; The death of a little girl leads to a new culture of safety and openness at Johns Hopkins.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Claudia Kalb Johns Hopkins is a world leader in medicine. So when Sorrel and Tony King found themselves there in 2001 with their 18-month-old daughter, Josie, they were grateful. Josie had climbed into a bathroom tub, turned on the...

Invasive Procedures: Less Is More ... And Better.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Donald M. Berwick, M.D. (Berwick is clinical professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and CEO of the Institute for HealthcareImprovement.) The modern hospital is the cathedral of our time--gleaming,...

Case Study: A Technology Prescription; Computerized health care is saving money and improving treatment at Denver Health.(Product/service evaluation)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Brad Stone (With Robbie Brown) If you ever have the misfortune to suffer a health crisis known as diabetic ketoacidosis, a critical state of severe high blood sugar, Denver Health hospital is one of the best places in the country to...

Digital Age: Next: Paperless Medicine.
October 16, 2006... Byline: David W. Bates, M.D., and Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D. (Bates and Komaroff are professors at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. For more information go to health.harvard.edu.) If you're a patient, there are many...

Case Study: New Ideas For Nurses; A major Pittsburgh hospital shows how to reinvigorate a once overworked staff.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Anne Underwood Which of these hospitals would you rather be treated in? At Hospital A, a major southwestern facility, the nursing staff is stretched so thin--and the intellectual and emotional demands of the job are so...