In this week's edition: resurgent sake and ukeleles,
tobacco-settlement backlash, the other Iraq, and one word:
plastics...
---Architecture---
An Industry Standard article notes that architects charged
with designing new university computing centers are finding
19th-century collegiate edifices to be better suited to
today's technology than 30-year-old tech buildings.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66058
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66058
---Beverages---
The Japanese rice wine called sake is the hippest drink
these days among young tech workers, according to Business
2.0.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65984
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=65984
---Books---
Entertainment Today looks at this year's Pulitzer
Prize-winning books.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65556
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=65556
---Business---
A Web Techniques article goes over the main points of
building a well-designed intranet.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65425
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=65425
CIO gives advice on preparing for and weathering an economic
downturn (layoffs, outsourcing, etc.).
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65872
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=65872
---Comedy Greats---
A Salon article trumpets the enhanced theatrical re-release
of Monty Python's comic masterpiece 'The Holy Grail.'
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65800
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=65800
Comedy impresario Mel Brooks is the subject of a Salon
career profile.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66205
---Computing---
CIO analyzes Microsoft's recent public flap over open-source
software and the Linux community's responses to Redmond.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65707
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=65707
---Crime---
Salon tells how one small-town police force is battling
underage drinking by compassionately clamping down on the
teen party circuit.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65395
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=65395
Salon reports that federal judges are speaking out against
mandatory-sentencing laws that, they contend, rob them of
the right to be compassionate to small-time drug criminals.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66164
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66164
---Health---
New Scientist reports on research that suggests some
people's depression may be caused by an overactive immune
system.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65400
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=65400
CIO provides tips for avoiding eye strain.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65784
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One smoker's $3 billion judgment against Philip Morris has
caused a backlash against anti-tobacco causes and
litigation, reports Salon.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65693
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=65693
---International Politics---
Saddam Hussein complains that UN sanctions are starving his
people, but areas of Iraq where Saddam doesn't control the
profits from oil sales are doing well, says a New Republic
article.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65341
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=65341
FEER reports that the Cambodian government is finally taking
steps to curb the poaching and trade of tigers. Is it too
late to save this endangered species?
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65455
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=65455
Time Europe analyzes the Bush trip to Europe and declares it
"far from a total disaster".
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66111
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66111
---The Internet---
In Salon, a 17-year-old describes his crusade against the
Internet-filtering system in his school.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65518
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=65518
---Movies---
Salon reviews Disney's new, "grown-up" animated film,
Atlantis.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65717
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=65717
---Music---
Globalization may not destroy diversity, a Technology Review
article argues, if the explosion of the world-music scene is
any example.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65330
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=65330
The ukelele is enjoying an upsurge in popularity, according
to Business 2.0. Really.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66117
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66117
---Science & Technology---
Technology Review remembers Claude Shannon, the father of
the digital age.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65372
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=65372
A U.S. News article takes an accounting of how pervasive and
important plastics have become in modern life, and how they
are changing with the times.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=65792
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=65792
---U.S. Politics---
Education Week reports on a recent Supreme Court ruling that
will allow religious groups much freer access to American
schools.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66055
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66055
Torn between his principles and big-money backers on one
side, looming blackouts and mutinous congressmen on the
other, President Bush may be moving towards price caps for
California's electricity market, Time reports.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66115
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66115
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