Making a Healthy Difference
Not all health care heroes hold MDs or wield scalpels. Meet six individuals who work behind the scenes in their hospitals and communities.
Features
The Bus Stops Here
The annual Heart and Soul of Georgia Tour celebrates some re-energized downtowns and gives small towns a chance to tell their stories. Here's a look at Waycross, Fitzgerald and Folkston.
The Play's The Thing
Across the state, dozens of small theatre groups entertain audiences, enrich their communities and help a bevy of citizen-actors find their inner Hamlet.
Inside The Atlanta Fed
Georgia played a key role in establishing the cou ntry's central banking system, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is one of a dozen regional banks that helps set national monetary policy. It's much more of a grassroots operation than you might think.
Slow-Growing But Solid
What is the bottom line for the U.S. economy? My forecast calls for U.S. Gross Domestic Product to rise by 3.2 percent in 2006, and by 2.7 percent in 2007.
Reinventing The Cloister
The crown jewel of Georgia's fabled Sea Island resort will reopen later this year, resurrected, reborn and rebuilt. Bill Jones III, the man whose vision has guided the process, says the new building has to respect the past and look to the future.
Staying On Track
At UGA, Cedartown's Kermit Perry ran for glory on the cinders.
Fifty Years And A Billion Dollars Later
Q&A with Aaron Rents founder Charles Loudermilk, who parlayed a modest loan and a few folding chairs into a furntiure rental empire and helped write the book on corporate citizenship in Atlanta.
From Representation to Inclusion
Corporate diversity programs, now widely recognized as good business, have increased the numbers of women and minorities in the workplace. But that's not necessarily enough. And the next step may be the hardest one of all.
Unhealthy State
Atlanta is the public health capital of the world, home to the CDC and a long list of agencies and institutions that focus on health care. So why are 42 other states healthier than Georgia - and why do officials think things can improve? Plus, Public Health Classroom.
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