In this week's issue: annoying shareware, alluring spam,
the purpose of music, and an inexplicably popular sport
played in the swamp.
---Business---
A Computer User article guides readers down the path of
deciding to quit your day job and start a small home office.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70550
A U.S. News piece notes a sharp upturn in the number of
summer camps for kids -- especially girls -- focused on
business and entrepreneurship.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70984
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CIO reports that Cisco's precipitous decline was
precipitated by a failure of one of their most-vaunted
systems: their own business-forecasting software.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71106
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71106
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---Computing & Internet---
The underbelly of the software industry has become seedier,
with unscrupulous software makers achieving wider
distribution paying to have their programs covertly bundled
with hot shareware downloads, reports Salon.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70767
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=70767
A U.S. News article decries the depths web advertisers have
sunk to, asserting that those who run pop-up and pop-under
ads need to learn some manners.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70966
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=70966
Rebates sound like a great deal, but, as a PC World article
finds, they aren't as reliable as one would think.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71219
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71219
A Salon article finds its author intrigued by what may be
the world's most entrancing and eloquent class of spam, the
Nigerian "419" e-mail scam.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71227
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71227
Is a computer virus e-mailing your private documents to
friends and strangers alike? PC World reports on the threat
of the Sircam worm.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70116
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=70116
---Engineering & the Environment---
A Time article examines the project of building a $420
million sports arena on top of a reclaimed toxic wasteland
in Dallas.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71188
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71188
---Family History---
Kiplinger's explains the steps to take when researching your
geneaology.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70424
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=70424
---Finance & Investment---
Red Herring analyzes the European Central Bank's reluctance
to cut interest rates.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70794
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=70794
Red Herring tells an impressive tale of alleged stock
manipulation in connection with a once-highflying incubator,
Zero.Net, and its ex-felon founder.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70824
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=70824
---Health---
Managed Care interviews a prominent health educator about
ways to reduce errors in the medical system.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70513
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=70513
Depression is taking its toll across Asia, where symptoms
are ignored and the condition is stigmatized, according to a
FEER article.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70858
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=70858
---Household Maintenance---
Family Handyman provides advice for the homeowner with
insect problems.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70618
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=70618
---Science & Technology---
Science News reports on a major advance in agricultural
technology: researchers have genetically modified a tomato
plant to thrive in salty conditions, a property that may may
enable the farming of formerly unarable land.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70882
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=70882
A Lingua Franca article covers an unorthodox attempt to
teach a computer common sense, one fact at a time.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70896
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=70896
A U.S. News article ponders the purpose of music and the
ways it seems hard-wired into human brains.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70964
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=70964
An article in CIO reports on the current state of "digital
paper" technology.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71035
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71035
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---Sex and the Bard---
Pornographic film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays are
garnering some academic attention, reports Lingua Franca.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70917
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=70917
---Social Issues---
A New Republic article reports that ecoterrorism has come to
the suburbs, bringing with it a heaping measure of
hypocrisy.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70435
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=70435
A CIO article expresses fear that the soon-to-be-implemented
location-tracking technology in wireless devices will spell
the end of individual freedom.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71050
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71050
---Sports---
Following the deaths of two football players from
heatstroke, a Sports Illustrated article reasons that
coaches need to keep their players from pushing too hard.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70733
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=70733
An Outside article reports from Wales on a bizarre sport
that somehow keeps growing in popularity: bog snorkeling.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70683
---World Politics---
East Timor faces an uphill climb, as the new nation must
build an economy from scratch in one of the world's poorest
places, reports Asiaweek.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=70700
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=70700
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