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...program and will cover heart-disease and diabetes screenings to catch problems before they become expensive. It will also provide incentives for reducing medical errors, notably by supporting electronic-prescription programs to cut down on mistakes resulting from bad handwriting and by encouraging doctors to share patient information via computer programs...
...American Girl doesn't push girls to act older," says Ellen Brothers, president of Pleasant Company of Middleton, Wis., which launched the American Girl brand via catalog in 1986. "We're saying, 'Find a friend, and learn everything you can about her and that pivotal point in history.'" This has proved to be a lucrative proposition. To learn everything about, say, Samantha, American Girl's Victorian-era doll, you can buy her complete collection--her books, furniture, clothing and accessories...
...explode in the face of the incumbent telephone companies," says David Isenberg, a former Bell Labs researcher and respected industry observer. Vonage, for example, has 70,000 customers paying $34.99 a month for unlimited calls in the U.S. and Canada. You just link your phone to your broadband connection via an adapter. An added perk: you can choose any area code in the country. Buy a second line for $4.99 a month, for instance, and select the area code of the college your daughter attends so that all her calls home will be local. Companies like Packet8, VoicePulse and Addaline...
...rink; the highlight is the Manège d'Andréa, a surrealist carousel with flying frogs, bionic spacemen and Jules Verne spaceships. In Rome, the market in the baroque Piazza Navona is worth a visit for its first-rate buskers alone. In Naples, the entire Via San Gregorio Armeno is given over to crèche scenes and figurines. The largest of Vienna's markets takes place in front of the Rathaus, or City Hall). At the Skansen open-air museum in Stockholm, look out for the procession of white-clad girls bearing candles in honor...
...high winds left 250,000 people without drinking water and 37,000 without electricity. President Jacques Chirac pledged €12 million for the stricken region. Consuming Passion GERMANY Computer expert Armin Meiwes confessed at the opening of his murder trial to killing - and eating - a man he met via the Internet, but claimed victim Bernd-Jürgen Brandes was a willing participant. Cannibalism is not a crime in Germany, so Meiwes is charged with murder for sexual satisfaction and disturbing the peace of the dead. Showdown Time? ITALY Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government approved a media-reform...