Archive for ‘Culture’

Dr. Valdes molds ‘Kaiser for the uninsured’

Health Care Heroes

Kao revolutionizing care for the elderly, dying

Health Care Heroes

Fine advocates for poor, politically isolated

Health Care Heroes

Svan Song: Exploring a Hidden Culture

I.F. Stone’s Radical Idea

The journalist believed solid reporting could overcome the financial turmoil that plagued newspapers

Bay Area directors explore post-9/11 FBI entrapment in ‘Better This World’

Interview

Energy Thirst

Few capitals of late have experienced growth as explosive as Panama City, where a building boom caused an annual jump of nine to 15 percent in national energy use over the last five years. Now the question is, with energy demand outstripping supply, where is all the juice going to come from—and why aren’t photovoltaics playing a bigger part of the solution?

‘We Have to Be Awake’

An interview with Vaclav Havel

Rescued From the Nazis

Reviving Mendelssohn

Taking a Slug of America

American writers such as Paul Auster or Jonathan Franzen sell far better in Germany than in their home markets. This reception says more about German readers than the authors themselves.