There’s nothing I hate more than a sensational media circus surrounding a sensitive medical ethics issue — and that’s exactly what ensued when New Orleans police arrested a doctor and two nurses recently for allegedly euthanizing chronically ill patients during Hurricane Katrina.…
Archive for July, 2006
Heat wave of income
by Lee Simmons, July 28, 2006, 8:08 amThe heat wave sweeping across the country for the last two weeks has sent many scurrying like roaches out of the light and into the cool confines of the great indoors. Not all have found respite, though. New York’s Queens Borough suffered from a massive blackout lasting at …
Internet killed the video star
by Daysha Taylor, July 27, 2006, 8:00 amStudies have found that social interaction with real, live humans is important. (Yes, there are studies. Google it.) But many moons ago, local was replaced by corporate. Self-scanning checkout stations replaced Susie, the girl who once asked about your family while she bagged your groceries. …
Marketers are just toying with us
by Vanita Trippe, July 26, 2006, 8:00 amI was browsing through American Way (American Airlines’ inflight magazine) the other day. You know the type of publication – chock full of stories touting travel destinations and high-tech toys for grownups. Well, right there on its pages, I ran into …
Why does America hate Superman?
by Larry Bills, July 25, 2006, 8:00 amLike most children of my generation, I left the theater after seeing Superman in 1978 with the entirely realistic ambition to one day become Superman. All I had to do was figure out how to get those fantastic powers. But …
Taking stock
by Jeff Dorsch, July 24, 2006, 8:00 amSemiconductor industry executives could use some tips on dating. Not on going out to dinner and a movie, but on when they exercise their stock options.
The widespread practice of backdating stock options, where executives and board members timed their purchases and sales of stock options to …
Hef and Jenna
by Joe Bramhall, July 21, 2006, 8:00 amThere’s a hot new couple steaming things up in the porn business: Hugh Hefner and Jenna Jameson. (Ooh, bad mental image. Bad.) Hef’s adult publishing and entertainment empire, Playboy, recently bought Club Jenna, the video …
Garage a trois? Sacré bleu!
by James Bryant, July 20, 2006, 8:00 amPardon my French, but I think the three-way strategic alliance proposed by billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian between Renault, Nissan, and General Motors makes about as much sense as a croissant …
Utility Merger Mash — not my favorite dance
by Anne Law, July 19, 2006, 8:00 amThe merger of WPS Resources and Peoples Energy will create yet another utility monster. While the deal may be good for the utility companies, it could ultimately hurt the public. Why?
Bigger companies …
Minnesota, trendy?
by Elizabeth Cornell, July 18, 2006, 8:00 amToday, patients have more hope of getting better, not sicker, when they enter the hospital. Minnesota started the trend by instituting a law requiring hospitals and outpatient surgical centers to publicly report so-called adverse health events (injuries caused by medical management).
About 20 states already have some …
