Harvesting the bounty of the past week's magazine articles
on the Web, we bring you the best and most interesting.
Enjoy!
---Movies---
Salon rounds up the Oscar nominations and handicaps the
field.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50405
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50405
Salon gives a modest thumbs up to the movie "Down to Earth",
starring Chris Rock.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50713
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50713
---The Internet---
Get your pets on the Net -- an MIT professor thinks
pet-chatrooms can help alleviate the isolation and boredom
of domestic animals, reports CIO.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50590
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50590
Salon looks at how RealNetworks has managed to maintain the
upper hand against Microsoft in streaming media.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50703
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50703
An Industry Standard article examines Napster's options and
strategies for file-sharing now that their legal defense
seems to have evaporated.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50920
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50920
---Books---
Forbes claims that literary figures have historically
screwed up handling their money and it looks at a book on
investing that borrows from Mark Twain.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50492
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50492
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---Science---
Science News describes research efforts to embed
micro-capsules into composite materials to allow them to
"self-heal".
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50653
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50653
Forbes reports on new pharmaceutical research into cures for
drug and alcohol addiction.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50520
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50520
Science News covers the completion of assembling the human
genome -- and the finding that it contains only a third as
many genes as most scientists expected.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50659
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50659
---Business---
Forbes reports on CEO Steve Ballmer's efforts to make
Microsoft a kinder, gentler, and more customer-oriented
corporation.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50641
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50641
An Atlantic Monthly article describes how businesses, once
considered the enemies of privacy, are now trying to cash in
on providing it to a technologically denuded populace.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50482
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50482
eCFO reports on online security issues facing corporations
and their use of hired hackers to expose problems.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50668
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50668
U.S. News reports on increased use of the Internet by
traditional companies and the productivity gains reaped by
the new technology.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50751
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50751
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---European Politics---
Russia wants to import spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing
at its Mayak plant, where, reports U.S. News, safety is
questionable.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50770
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50770
---Asian Politics---
Power problems are not unique to California's Silicon
Valley. Taiwan's, too, is often in the dark, reports FEER.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50494
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50494
Time Asia reports that tourist hordes are slowly destroying
China's Great Wall.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50859
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50859
---Finance & Economics---
Time's board of economists analyze economies around the
world to try to divine the next growth leader and potential
problem areas.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50805
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50805
---Comic Books & Academia---
A Lingua Franca article examines DC Comics's apparent
resistance to scholarship that discusses the sexual
orientation of Batman and Robin.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50485
---U.S. Politics---
A Salon article explains why some of the world's richest
people are the staunchest opponents of Bush's tax plan.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50554
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50554
New Republic argues that Bush's faith-based charity
initiative will actually make government bigger.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50665
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50665
U.S. News looks at some of the strange results and political
consequences when sensible principles are taken too far.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50728
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50728
A Time Asia article surveys the political damage resulting
from a deadly collision between a U.S. submarine and a
Japanese fishing trawler.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50924
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50924
---Social Issues---
The Scientist discusses the benefits and hazards of a data
bank for human genes established by a new law in (where
else?) Estonia.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50712
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50712
Years of decline in the murder rate have come to an end.
U.S. News looks at the causes of both the decline and the
turnaround.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50790
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50790
U.S. News makes a suggestion for wealthy nations to help
combat AIDS and tuberculosis in Africa.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50729
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50729
---Health & Nutrition---
The Scientist extols the health benefits and safety of
olestra, a cooking oil which adds no fat or calories to
food.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50714
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50714
Time Europe reports on the healthier alternatives that
Europeans are trying in lieu of potentially deadly beef.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50936
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50936
---Computers & Electronics---
An Industry Standard article counsels skepticism of the new
digital- and high-definition-TV products that manufacturers
and broadcasters are pushing.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50845
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50845
A MacWorld article heaps praise on Apple's newest offerings,
including the Titanium PowerBook G4 and iDVD software.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50947
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50947
---Education---
Will dodge-ball be eliminated from America's schools? The
controversy over that timeless game is growing, reports
Education Week.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=51031
Salon reports that DARE will change its approach for
teaching American children about the dangers of drugs after
nearly twenty years because the old method was ineffective.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50697
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50697
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