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
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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
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Searcher looks at useful web sites for researching and
purchasing pharmaceuticals.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=47989
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Science News reports on recent scientific studies of the
placebo effect.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48243
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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
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---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
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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
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A Fortune article explains why Bush's 1.6 trillion-dollar
tax cut now seems likely.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?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
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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
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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
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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
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New Scientist interviews a prominent Colombian biologist who
is using his access to dangerous areas to effect political
change.
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An article in The Weekly Standard describes China's
"choke-hold" over Hong Kong.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48570
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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
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---Business & Finance---
Auto Industries features a story on the rise of the Korean
auto makers.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48483
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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---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
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Metropolis reports on plans to revive the once-mighty, now
sad, Los Angeles river.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=47976
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---Books---
Salon reviews a new book on the ethical code of
free-software programmers.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=48719
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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
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