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Location: Mailing Lists / Archive General Hot Articles / 2001-02-07

Here's your weekly installment of intelligent and
interesting reading from MagPortal.com.  Enjoy, and pass it
on to your friends.
 
---Health, Illness & Treatments---
A Salon writer goes through the steps of getting a
prescription for pot in California.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=47793
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=47793
Still struggling with your New Year's resolutions? Time
Europe reports that it's not too late for forty-somethings
to reverse a lifetime of bad habits and stay healthy.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=47926
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=47926
Searcher looks at useful web sites for researching and
purchasing pharmaceuticals.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=47989
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=47989
Science News reports on recent scientific studies of the
placebo effect.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48243
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=48243
As The Scientist reports, new research suggests that a rich
social environment can be a powerful weapon against dementia
and cognitive decline.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48425
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=48425

---U.S. Society, Politics & Culture---
A Reason article describes the National Forest Service's
difficulties coming to terms with an annual gathering of
hippies.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48514
Kiplinger's reports on the growing crime of identity theft.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=47124
Salon profiles and interviews Warren Farrell, once a
prominent feminist and now the nation's leading "men's
rights" advocate.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48837
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=48837
A piece in The New Republic argues that by opposing the
FCC's low-power radio initiative, NPR sold out its own
founding principles.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48622
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=48622
A Fortune article explains why Bush's 1.6 trillion-dollar
tax cut now seems likely.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48821
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=48821
 
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---International Politics & Social Issues---
A Salon article analyzes the dilemmas of modern
dictatorship:  being a tyrant isn't as easy as it used to
be.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48557
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=48557
A Time Europe piece urges President Bush to bond with
European leaders rather than go it alone in the world.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=47924
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=47924
FEER writes that Asian governments are starting to grapple
with the ethical questions raised by medical research.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=47998
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=47998
Salon reports that the split decision in the Lockerbie
bombing case has not satisfied the families of the victims,
who look to Libya for restitution.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=47817
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=47817
New Scientist interviews a prominent Colombian biologist who
is using his access to dangerous areas to effect political
change.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=47837
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=47837
An article in The Weekly Standard describes China's
"choke-hold" over Hong Kong.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48570
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=48570
Financier-philanthropist George Soros makes his case for
tempering free-market globalization with well-developed
social institutions in a FEER interview.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=47938
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=47938

---Business & Finance---
Auto Industries features a story on the rise of the Korean
auto makers.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48483
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=48483
CIO offers an article on how to make oneself come across to
journalists as a reliable, articulate expert.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=47881
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=47881
CIO announces its Enterprise Value Awards, which honor
companies with the most visionary and successful uses of
information technology.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=47914
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=47914
An Employment Review article pins down the difference
between a job and a career, and why that difference is
important.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48339
An Industry Standard analysis finds that technology has
indeed changed the economy's business cycle, just not in the
way that many expected.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48684
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=48684
Industry Standard warns that if Yahoo doesn't diversify its
revenue sources, it may lose its blue-chip status on the
Street.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48704
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=48704
 
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---Houses (Haunted & Non-Haunted)---
Forbes reports that original Frank Lloyd Wright-designed
houses are still going up, thanks to a prodigious output of
designs during his life.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=47939
A Skeptical Inquirer writer tells of his stays at supposedly
"haunted" inns.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=47951
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=47951
 
---Science & The Environment---
This week's update on scientific fish-manipulation:  Forbes
reports on genetically modified salmon that grow twice as
fast as their normal cousins.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48040
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=48040
Metropolis reports on plans to revive the once-mighty, now
sad, Los Angeles river.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=47976
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=47976
 
---Books---
Salon reviews a new book on the ethical code of
free-software programmers.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48719
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=48719
Salon has a feature on the recently-published Tiananmen
Papers, supposedly a record of how the Communist Party in
China decided to crush a democratic movement.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48381
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=48381