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---Computers & the Internet---
PC World gets two experienced hackers to show them the
tricks of the trade.
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---Business---
A Motor Age article looks at what is necessary for a small,
family-run business to succeed.
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Industry Standard previews the coming three-way battle for
the video-game console world, an industry that seems poised
to explode.
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Time examines Kodak's plans for change as the world moves
towards a future where film is obsolete.
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Industry Standard writes that webcasting is catching on as a
way for companies to deliver news and information to
shareholders and the press.
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---European Business---
Time Europe reports that the continent's once-docile
shareholders are putting serious pressure on CEOs.
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Bidding billions for third-generation wireless spectrum that
they haven't yet been able to use has left European telecom
companies in a bad place, reports Industry Standard.
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Can daring concept cars from the designer behind the Audi TT
and VW New Beetle save ailing automaker DaimlerChrysler? A
Metropolis article reports.
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---The Restaurant Business---
A Time article reports that, in the quest for hipness, more
and more restaurateurs are designing their places to be
especially noisy.
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A CIO article describes how the troubled Hard Rock Cafe
chain of restaurants is looking to the web to help turn its
business around.
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---E-Business---
A Red Herring article predicts that the next generation of
B2B exchanges will work -- once powerful vendors force their
dependent suppliers to sign on.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=59218
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Internet World has an interview with CEO Jeff Taylor about
the strategies behind the impressive growth of career search
site Monster.com.
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---U.S. Politics & Society---
Education Week comments on a survey documenting the extent
of bullying in American schools.
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A New Republic article sees racial integration and urban
gentrification at the root of the recent race riots in
Cincinnati.
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President Bush's surprising off-the-cuff remarks about the
U.S.'s Taiwan policy send worrisome signals about his
foreign-affairs acumen, as a Time Asia article reports.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=59631
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---World Politics & Society---
Private home ownership is finally taking off in China,
reports a FEER article.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=59122
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A Weekly Standard article suggests steps that the U.S.
should take against the brutal regime in Sudan.
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---Personal Finance & Investing---
A Salon article describes how self-employed parents are
discriminated against by financial aid departments when it's
time to send their kids to college.
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Individual Investor rolls out its annual list of America's
fastest growing companies.
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---Books---
Salon reviews a new book that sheds light on the mysterious
National Security Agency.
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A Salon article decries the lame, misleading blurbs adorning
the jackets of books.
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---A Well-Aging Beatle---
TV Guide interviews Paul McCartney, who at 58 is enjoying a
surge of creativity.
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---Home & Garden---
National Gardening has tips on how to select, buy, and plant
trees.
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---Health & Nutrition---
An AskMen piece points out the many health benefits of beer.
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Weekly Standard profiles the fitness guru Bush will likely
install as Surgeon General of the U.S.
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---Science---
Red Herring reports that chemists and physicists are still
trying to understand fully and model the properties of the
world's strangest liquid, water.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=59113
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A Salon article calls Dennis Tito, who paid $20 million to
become the first space tourist, a pioneer in bringing space
closer to the dreams of everyday people.
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