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...Ellwood, 71, the man who invented the phrase "health-maintenance organization" and who, along with Stanford University economist Alain Enthoven, developed much of the theory behind managed care. From his ranch in Wyoming, Ellwood sounds like a broken man, and in a too literal sense he is. He was thrown from a horse last month, fracturing his neck. (No, he was not paralyzed or treated by managed care.) The painful healing process has given him a lot of time to consider how disappointed he is with the system he helped create. "The idea was to have health-care organizations compete...
...biggest question facing any prospective buyer is digital vs. analog. Analog phones are often thrown in "free" with service contracts. But digital phones offer whizzy features and last far longer on battery power. Also, digital networks generally provide clearer signals than analog. One day, digital networks will blanket the planet. Now, however, coverage is spotty, with smaller places unserved. Worse, there are three different digital "languages"--one used by AT&T, for instance; another by Sprint; and a third, known as GSM, that is big in Europe and offered here by Omnipoint. Alas, they can't understand one another...
...during the 1970s, when California and four other states, after successful suits by poor parents and school districts, were forced to hammer out new funding plans. The issue heated up again in 1989, when Kentucky's supreme court found the state's funding system unconstitutional. Since then, courts have thrown out school-financing systems in 13 other states. Some, like New Jersey, remain perpetually mired, unable to arrive at a new formula, but most have begun emphasizing the notion of "adequacy," making sure each student receives a minimum spending level but allowing towns to collect extra funds for their...
...episode of her other favorite show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in which Angel, a male vampire, "turned bad" after having sex with the 17-year-old Buffy. "That kinda annoyed me," says Ryan. "What would have happened if she had had a baby? Her whole life would have been thrown out the window." As for the fallen Angel: "I am so mad! I'm going to take all my pictures of him down...
These qualities were obviously not lost on director Ivan Reitman when he cast her--well before the issue of her personal romantic preferences raised its irrelevant head--in Six Days, Seven Nights. For this is a castaway comedy with a stronger-than-usual admixture of action sequences thrown in to please her co-star's boyish fans. His Quinn is a charter pilot and social dropout. Her Robin is a nervous small-plane passenger and magazine editor. And they are forced to survive on a tropical island when their plane is forced down by a storm...