Your weekly dose of the best articles:
---Business---
CIO takes a look at the problems that can come from
mischaracterizing an employee as an independent contractor
and steps you can take to avoid problems.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54261
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CIO looks at D-LECs and B-LECs as low cost alternatives to
T1 for business Internet access.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54090
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54090
eCFO gives warnings to e-commerce companies planning to do
deals in China.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54352
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54352
Industry Standard has a special feature on the importance of
collecting and analyzing data for corporate competitiveness.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54707
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54707
---Investing---
Asiaweek interviews Barton Biggs who warns against tech
stocks but likes emerging markets.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54381
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Kiplingers talks about starting a Roth IRA for your child.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54728
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Teacher Magazine warns educators to do their homework when
it comes to their 403(b) retirement plans.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54251
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54251
---Privacy---
CIO discusses privacy issues, including a pact many
businesses have ignored that allows them to send data from
Europe back to the U.S.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54225
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54225
PC World looks at the lack of privacy protection for medical
records.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54359
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54359
---U.S. Politics---
Salon details the first day of debate on McCain-Feingold in
the Senate.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54730
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Salon looks at Bush's flip-flop on a pledge to limit carbon
dioxide emissions by power plants.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54105
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54105
Clinton-appointed, New York-based U.S. Attorney Mary Jo
White will take the lead in the
pardon investigation according to U.S. News.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54486
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54486
---Asia---
FEER sees trouble for Indonesia's fragile export-led
economic recovery.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54052
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54052
Asiaweek looks at Malaysian tycoon Halim Saad's efforts to
keep his Renong Group conglomerate afloat.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54363
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54363
The Weekly Standard reports on efforts by Beijing to keep
the U.S. from selling Aegis weapons to Taiwan.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54531
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54531
Time Asia describes the chaos caused for the ruling party in
India by a website's corruption expose.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54687
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54687
---Europe---
U.S. News details the political upheaval in the Ukraine from
damaging tapes of the president and the murder of an
opposition reporter.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54480
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54480
Behemoth Internet service provider AOL, for all its efforts,
has had trouble gaining a toehold in Europe against
indigenous ISPs, reports Microtimes.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=53882
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=53882
---Social Issues---
Scientific American looks at the potential health impact of
Bush's reenactment of the "Global Gag Rule" on abortion.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54609
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54609
U.S. News looks at the issue of forcibly medicating the
mentally ill so that they can stand trial for crimes.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54471
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54471
---Internet---
New Scientist looks at new search engine technologies that
allow you to find sounds, pictures, and video.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=53925
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=53925
Real Estate Portfolio reports on streamlined regulations and
special software being developed to simplify retail tax
codes to accommodate e-commerce.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54355
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54355
Industry Standard provides projections for various aspects
of Internet use in 2005.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54592
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54592
---Computers---
Mobile Computing ranks 10 notebook computers for speed,
battery life, and durability.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54330
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54330
Need more speed? PC World tests 5 notebooks featuring the
new 1GHz Mobile Pentium III.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54754
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54754
Scientific American reviews the Ricochet wireless modem.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54533
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54533
Open source software authors can avoid having someone else
patent their work by making its existence known to the
patent office according to Salon.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54749
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54749
---Science & Technology---
The Atlantic Monthly reports on how the study of human
genetic variation has become the most contentious area in
modern science.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=53975
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=53975
After 15 years of service Mir takes its final laps and Time
reports some interesting stories from its history.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54432
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54432
U.S. News reports on progress in more efficient alternatives
to incandescent lighting.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54473
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54473
---Education---
Teacher Magazine looks at the Teacher Advancement Program
which is designed to bolster student performance by creating
new incentives and supports for teachers.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54233
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54233
Lingua Franca looks at the battle between universities and
their professors for the right to sell lectures over the
Internet.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54122
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54122
---AIDS---
The New Republic looks at whether or not the drug companies
should be demonized for the lack of progress in treating HIV
in Africa.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54070
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54070
Salon reports that the WTO and World Health Organization
will hold a meeting to figure out how to get AIDS treatments
to the poor of Africa and Asia.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54747
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54747
---Movies---
Salon reviews the movie Enemy at the Gates.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54405
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54405
New Republic gives thumbs down to The Mexican, but likes
Brazilian film Me You Them.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54320
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54320
---Television---
Sound & Vision provides the latest news on digital TV
regulations.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54734
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54734
New technologies have made purchasing a TV more complicated.
Sound & Vision offers advice.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54738
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54738
---Sports---
A Sports Illustrated article criticizes the Williams sisters
for ducking their tennis match against each other last
Thursday.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54614
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54614
Is there anywhere advertisers won't go? Salon looks at
athlete's tattoos as billboards.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54757
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54757
---Misc---
Why does radio suck? A Salon author argues that it's
because of a sleazy, thinly-veiled pay-for-play system
that's only getting worse.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54030
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54030
Wired has a feature on next-generation roller coasters,
machines the likes of which can warp from 0 to 80mph in 1.8
seconds.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=53906
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=53906
Scientific American interviews Steve Irwin, the Crocodile
Hunter.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54583
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54583
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