Extreme makeover for Hartford's print shop.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Setting the American Dream’s Homeownerships Standard of Living and its Costs

This article discusses how the Extreme Makeover: HomeEditionUStelevision reality program, which focuses on rebuilding houses for those in need,sets unrealistic boundaries for the American Dream’s standard of living oflow-income homeowners in the United States. Passing through economic hardshipin the past several years, it is important to study how this program can meet thereal expectations of t...

Health courts: an extreme makeover of medical malpractice with potentially fatal complications.

Advocacy in action: extreme corporate makeover interruptus: denormalising tobacco industry corporate schmoozing.

The tobacco industry continues to seek corporate "respectability", despite being responsible for the deaths of millions of smokers worldwide every year.

Asymmetrical collaboration in print shop-customer relationships

The service provider-customer relationship, although not perhaps considered a typical collaborative relationship, is clearly collaborative work. However, such work is constrained by the very (service) nature of the relationship. Customer-service provider interaction can be characterised as interaction at the boundaries of organisations, each of which is likely to have their own workflows and or...

Extreme makeover: converting one cell into another.

Cells of adult mammals can be converted (reprogrammed) to new cells. In one approach, adult cells are converted to pluripotent stem cells, followed by differentiation to regenerate new cell types. Alternatively, adult cells may be directly converted into other mature cells or progenitors. We discuss and compare these two approaches with particular emphasis on the latter and its relevance for re...