Features

Why Americans Are Going Abroad for Health Care

Greg Lindsay — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:46:11 -0400

Bringing Green Jobs to the Urban Poor

Linda Baker — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:46:14 -0400

Oakland activist Van Jones is on a mission to bring green-collar jobs to the urban poor. His mightiest weapon: His mouth.

How to Fix the Web

Robert Scoble — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:45:57 -0400

"Please say who you are, what you do, and how the Web is screwed up." How's that for an icebreaker? That was the way Kevin Lynch, Adobe's CTO, grabbed his audience at the company's annual developers event this year, throwing open a discussion about what we don't like about the Web and what we'd like to see fixed.

Project Rehab

Danielle Sacks — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:27:10 -0400

Take Me Out to the Ballpark

Jeff Chu — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:25:59 -0400

Beneath the east garage is the Strike Zone: a 15,000-square-foot children's area with a PlayStation Pavilion (proceeds benefit the Nationals' charity), a Build-A-Bear outlet, and other amusements.
The biggest scoreboard in baseball -- about five stories tall -- boasts a 4,532-square-foot high-definition video screen.
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Measuring Footprints

Alissa Walker — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:25:16 -0400

Dead Man Walking

David Case — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:36:17 -0400

Library of the Living Dead

Elizabeth Spiers — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:25:56 -0400

Contrary to what your parents and teachers told you, reading does not necessarily make you smarter. Sometimes it doesn't even require you to think. I would send you a copy of Nicole Richie's novel, The Truth About Diamonds, as demonstrable proof, but there's a clause in my contract prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. Instead, I'll point you to the modern era's second-worst literary promulgator of intelligence reduction: your local bookstore's business section.

MEET: World Retail Congress

Theunis Bates — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:27:30 -0400

"I'm keen to meet up with retailers from Asia and South America. At the 2007 Congress, we made contact with Dubai's Landmark Group, and have since opened a Spar-branded hypermarket in India with one of its subsidiaries."

Gordon Campbell
Managing Director of Grocery Giant Spar

"Behind the scenes, there'll be a definite feeling of uncertainty among big retailers because of the signs of doom and gloom in the global economy."

Miles Gray
CEO of Clothier Ben Sherman

The Amazing Race

Robert Levine — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:27:45 -0400

The Engineer

David Warren Lee
Chairman, Project Director, and Systems Engineer
Society For Sustainable Mobility
Malibu, California

David Warren, 30, works as an engineering product manager for a defense contractor by day, but in his free time leads the Society for Sustainable Mobility's Open Source Green Vehicle Project. The goal is a seven-passenger SUV that will get 100 mpg, sell for about $30,000, and, he says, have the performance of a Porsche Cayenne.