Gayle Worland

Dr. Karl Shipman's stumble off a ladder in September 1997 set off a perilous chain of events that led to -- but did not end with -- his sudden death at age 64. The hardy, athletic internist and former chief of medicine at Presbyterian Hospital had simply broken his wrist...

Whenever someone handed Pharmacist Bob a prescription for thirty pills, he filled the order for thirty pills. "Not 29. Not 31," he says. "Thirty. That's how I see the world." So when he started seeing nurses fudging the rules at the Colorado prison where he worked, Bob Gusich didn't like...

Paying Dividends Making money can be a dirty business. But when Deb Sanchez attended a workshop at her Wild Oats grocery store promoting "social awareness investing," she thought it sounded like a good way to grow her small nest egg. Social investors focus their portfolios on things like environmentally friendly...

In the wee hours of the morning, an electronic signal beams out of the heavens and splashes into satellite dishes mounted on 12,000 schools across America. Later in the day, hundreds of TV monitors within each school switch on automatically and students' eyes lift to the screen in unison to...

It is one of the most nourishing, intoxicating and satisfying ways to spend an evening: the dinner party, where food is conversation and conversation is food, and secrets spill across the table as wine drains from the bottle. When the lights go up on the world premiere of Bernard Rands's...