| Hawai'i losing doctors
The failing health of many private medical practices in Hawai'i is driving physicians out of the state, leaving patients with fewer choices of doctors, longer waits for appointments and delayed care. The situation is worse in rural areas and on the Neighbor Islands, where doctors handle a higher percentage of uninsured and low-income patients and face what some call unreasonable on-call hours because there are fewer colleagues to share the load. Hawai'i County Mayor Harry Kim sent a letter Jan. 16 to the Legislature calling the growing shortage of primary-care doctors, cardiologists and other specialists a long-overlooked crisis. And Gov. Linda Lingle, in her State of the State address, called for malpractice tort reform to limit non-economic damages for pain and suffering and for other action to help the medical community.
Self-esteem booster
BACK when my eyes were still wide with innocence, the only unrealistic standard of beauty thrown in my face every single day was Barbie. And I knew she wasnt realno one I knew looked like her. The thought of comparing her blonde hair, perfect waist and curves to my dark locks, protruding tummy and baby fat never entered my mind. She, to me, was just another toy. Little girls have it much tougher nowadays. Unrealistic standards of beauty are imposed on them every single day. On television, in magazines, on the Internet. Photoshopped pictures, plastic surgery queens, crash diets left and right. The Olsen Twins, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton are on every other fashion cover. Long-term self-esteem Studies have shown that a girls view of beauty during her formative years (6-17 years old) may have a negative or positive impact on her long-term self-esteem.
Mumbai airport to get a facelift by 2010
From the terminal you catch your domestic flight will dramatically change after three years when the entire domestic flight operations will move to the Sahar side of the Mumbai airport by 2010. The brand new 1B domestic terminal constructed with an investment of nearly Rs 180 crore and currently used for departure of private airlines will be demolished to make space for cargo operations. Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel stated this during his Coffee with HT interaction on Saturday at the HT office in Mahim. "The Mumbai airport has a historical problem. There is no space to move an inch in this land locked airport. There has been a 50 per cent growth in traffic. The master planning on redevelopment is almost complete. It is a very complicated task, but I can guarantee that this existing airport will be converted into a brand new one by 2010," Patel said.
The Man Of Mode
I glimpsed the theatrical future last night and it mightily depressed me. For it will be a dumbed-down theatre world, in which period classic drama, with its distinctive voices and manners, cultures and costumes, is rendered contemporary. There will only be easy-on-the-mind, modern-dress versions of the old-fashioned originals. Are classic plays now too boring, too irrelevant to attract the young, unless dolled up as plays for tomorrow? It increasingly looks as if the National Theatre's brilliant, influential director thinks so. Nicholas Hytner's admittedly seductive production of The Man Of Mode, George Etherege's 1676 comedy of grubby sexual politics and marriage-marketeering, follows the line of his cleverly updated versions of Henry V and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist.
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