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Most E-mailed news on 18 August 2009 |
Op-Ed Columnist: The Swiss Menace
The Democratic health care reform plan most resembles the system in Switzerland, despite comparisons to the approaches taken in Britain and Canada.
Op-Ed Contributor: Your Baby Is Smarter Than You Think
Babies and young children are designed to explore, and they should be encouraged to do so. Children learn more through natural interaction with a parent and play than with any toy.
Op-Ed Contributor: Health Care?s Generation Gap
Money spent on exorbitant intensive-care medicine for dying, elderly people should be redirected to preventive care for children and mothers.
A New Test for Business and Biofuel
One of the nation?s wealthiest American Indian communities is a major investor in a start-up with the twin goals of making fuel from algae and reducing emissions.
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.
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.
Women at Arms: Living and Fighting Alongside Men, and Fitting In
American military women have changed the way the U.S. goes to war ? without the disruption of discipline and unit cohesion that some feared.
Op-Ed Columnist: Telling Grandma ?No?
Republicans should stick to defending the younger generation?s pocketbooks rather than strategically championing old-age entitlements.
Job Search Firms: Big Pitches and Fees, Few Jobs
A bewildering, largely unregulated array of businesses offering assistance are leaving job seekers vulnerable.
Dangling Money, Obama Pushes Education Shift
Stimulus money has provoked heated debates over standardized testing and the federal role in education.
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.
?Public Option? in Health Plan May Be Dropped
For President Obama, giving up on a public insurance plan could punch a hole in Republican arguments but could also alienate liberal Democrats.
?39 Steps?: Unlikely Broadway Survivor
?Alfred Hitchcock?s The 39 Steps? has outlasted pretty much every other straight play on Broadway without the benefit of elaborate sets or well-known stars.
Believers Invest in the Gospel of Getting Rich
Even in a downturn, preachers in the ?prosperity gospel? movement are drawing sizable, adoring audiences.
The Paper That Doesn?t Want to Be Free
With few signs that advertising is rebounding, other publishers are moving to imitate The Financial Times by erecting so-called pay walls for online content.
Association of Golf Club With A.I.G. Still Rankles
Players at Richter Park, a public golf course in Danbury, Conn., can glimpse the private Morefar Back O?Beyond.Morefar Back O?Beyond is known as a playground for A.I.G. executives and clients, which now irks local golfers.
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.
On the Mat, Florida Wonders Which Way Is Up
?There is a psychological edge in being at ground zero in the bust,? the best-selling novelist Carl Hiaasen says of Florida.Across the state, people wonder if Florida?s economy needs a new direction.
Editorial Notebook | The City Life: What?s That Weird Purple Thing?
The High Line gives city dwellers a chance to wonder at their own city weeds.
On Par: Game?s Holy Grail Is Far From Elusive
The hole in one has been accomplished by everyone from children to the elderly, from presidents and performers to average Joes.
Sites Ask Users to Spend to Save
Swoopo.com sells a variety of products in auctions that typically top out at a small fraction of the retail price, but charges a fee for each bid.
For Winter Games in Vancouver, Ice Isn?t So Easy
Icemeisters face challenges in getting the ice just right in an area at sea-level elevation with high humidity.
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