In this week's edition: business judo, dot-com grieving,
litigation nation, and a big win for Beijing.
---Biotech & Bioethics---
Icelandic startup DeCode Genetics has been awarded a 12-year
license to create and manage a database of the entire
nation's medical and genetic history. CIO reports on the
exquisite balance that must be maintained between privacy
and progress in this endeavor.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=68941
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---Business---
For a Fast Company piece, a judo champion-turned-marketing
executive shares some lessons from the martial art that help
him in business.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=68556
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Internet World looks at the hottest techno-gadgets for the
wireless corporate warrior.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=69074
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---E-Business---
A Fast Company article tells of Starbucks' new scaled-down
web strategy.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=68509
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An Industry Standard piece delves into the details of what
went wrong with failed online grocery service Webvan.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=68928
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Salon (which is not quite dead yet) weighs the effect that
dot-com deaths have had on customers.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=68397
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---Environment---
FEER explains some of the measures China is taking to combat
the rapid desertification raging across the country's
northern frontier.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=68502
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Asiaweek reports on some recent murders in the undeclared
war between environmentalists and prawn farmers in Thailand.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=68544
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A New Republic article argues that the demise of the Kyoto
Protocol may be a blessing in disguise, as it opens the door
for affordable, workable solutions for stopping the
greenhouse effect.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=68538
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=68538
---Law & Society---
A recent libel suit spanning two continents may have
consequences for the viability of e-mail newsletters,
reports Salon.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=68603
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Does the constant threat of litigation stifle our society?
The New Republic reviews a book, Philip Howard's "The Lost
Art of Drawing the Line," that follows that argument.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=68366
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---Music---
Sound & Vision reports on the South By Southwest festival,
the music industry's largest event, which, to their
surprise, was actually more about the music than about the
money.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=68454
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Mourning Napster? PC World reports on new software from
Dutch company FastTrack that has reopened the floodgates of
questionably-legal file sharing.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=68586
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---Sports & Politics---
Sports Illustrated reports on the success of Beijing's bid
to host the 2008 Olympic games.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=68547
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---U.S. Politics & Society---
Time profiles Bob Mueller, the man named to replace Louis
Freeh as FBI chief.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=68749
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A Weekly Standard editorial calls for U.S. secretary of
defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign in protest of what it
calls the drastic underfunding of the military.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=68923
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A Salon writer blasts Democrats for defending Gary Condit in
the missing-intern case and sheds more light on the
congressman's alleged history of randy misbehavior.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=68567
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