Cost, access, quality -- the prognosis for American health care may look grim, but innovation is the cure. The medicine of tomorrow is being born today. By Chuck Salter
Apple ignited the frenzy that has the tech world all shook up with mobile-app fever. How startups, big brands, and the iPhone's rivals are vying to cash in on the booming market. By Farhad Manjoo
The first salvo against interminable flight delays is Honeywell's new GPS-basedlanding technology. It could also save billions for the airlines. By Greg Lindsay
Brash and obsessive, tech tycoon Tom Siebel believes that keeping teens off crystal meth is largely a matter of educating and scaring them. Could he be right? By James Verini
In a year like this, we need a city upon a hill. Seattle, Fast Company's City of the Year, not only sprawls across seven hills but also boasts the ingredients that we believe will bring our communities -- and country -- back to prosperity: smarts, foresight, social consciousness, creative ferment. This year, singular bright ideas have earned 12 other cities -- Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Houston, Malmö, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Taipei, Tucson, and Vancouver -- places on our honor roll. Their exemplary initiatives are improving neighborhoods, transforming lives, and helping build better, faster cities for the future. By Fast Company Staff
The capital of the Pacific Northwest is blessed with divine geography, frontier spirit, and an abundance of both artists and geeks. Plus, it's not even that rainy. By Garth Stein
Where's the beef? During National Barbecue Month, it's usually sizzling over charcoal with pork, poultry, and (sometimes) veggies. As Memorial Day, the unofficial beginning of the summer grill season, looms, the industry remains red hot. Here's a tasting platter of stats. By Dan Macsai
In this show, which begins May 14, the Nature Conservancy and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York highlight the connection between a product's source and its consumers. "We want people to think about where the things in their lives came from," says Abbott Miller, a partner at the design firm Pentagram, who created the show with Cooper-Hewitt curator Ellen Lupton. Ten designers created functional objects with native materials from places with fragile ecosystems. We asked three to tell us about their work. By Linda Tischler
2008? Worst. Year. Ever. At least for Berkshire, the $113 billion holding company. That won't stop some 30,000 shareholders from trekking to Nebraska for its annual meeting. In fact, we expect they'll be more eager than ever to hear what wisdom CEO Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, has to offer in his annual address on May 2. It's usually a starry crowd; these famous faces have played pilgrim in recent years. By Kate Rockwood
Professor Andrew Hargadon believes energy efficiency can be sexy -- and he's winning fans at Chevron, Samsung, and Wal-Mart, and in Silicon Valley. By Anya Kamenetz
With the new Ever Clear antiperspirant, Alex Keith has sniffed out an opportunity to turn Old Spice into Procter & Gamble's next 10-figure brand. By Evan West
