In this week's issue: how architecture and anthropology can
give business a boost, the courts decide whether to be their
own Big Brother, and why you shouldn't ever mess with the
circus.
---Books & Authors---
Salon interviews 81-year-old "Fahrenheit 451" author Ray
Bradbury, whose science-fiction dystopias from 50 years ago
eerily resemble modern life.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73467
A Salon article examines a bizarre eight-year dirty-tricks
vendetta allegedly carried out by a circus mogul upon an
unsuspecting freelance writer.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73557
---Business Strategy---
A FEER article shows how companies like Intel are using
field anthropologists to help research in what directions
technology should go.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73661
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=73661
Credit Union Management offers advice to small companies
trying to cope with rising health care costs.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73758
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=73758
A Metropolis article profiles architect William McDonough
and his successes getting industry to recognize the economic
value of environmentally smart design.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73891
A Time Europe article depicts the mess France's top chefs
and restaurants are in, facing threats from both the
government and the food world's changing tastes.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73883
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=73883
---Business Technology---
Computer User surveys the whole spectrum of technologies for
connecting your business to the Internet, from dial-up to
fixed-point wireless.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73828
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=73828
Line56 reports on e-business's big worry: cleaning up after
failed tech vendors.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73710
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Computer User argues that small businesses should consider
Linux for desktop use.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73762
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Darwin advises managers on what to do when their company's
website has been hacked.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=74025
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=74025
---Health---
A piece in FDA Consumer takes a look at the latest advances
in vision correction, from surgery to eyeglass and contact
lens improvements.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73928
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=73928
Managed Care envisions a system in which patients who wanted
to protect their anonymity could do so by using medical
"usernames," much like Internet handles.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73921
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=73921
---The Internet---
PC World walks you through the basics of creating your own
Web site.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73785
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PC World looks at the possibility that the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act may need adjustment.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73752
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=73752
New Republic reports that the U.S. federal courts must now
decide whether to monitor the Internet usage of their own
judges and staff, a decision that could affect all the
nation's businesses and employees.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73901
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=73901
---Sports---
A Sports Illustrated article wonders why it seems no one is
criticizing the National Football League's replacement
referees for crossing the picket line.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73855
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=73855
---World Economics---
Asiaweek reports on a tug-of-war over control of Indonesia's
largest state-owned cement maker that will show whether
Jakarta is serious about privatization and opening the
economy.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73727
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=73727
Asiaweek says that Japan's prime minister will have to be
careful not to cause too much pain through reforms as long
as unemployment is rising.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73729
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=73729
Asiaweek looks at the job ahead of Azman Yahya, Malaysia's
new economic hatchet man.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73735
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=73735
Euro currency hits the Euro Zone on January 1, 2002, and
Time Europe outlines the preparations being made and the
potential problems that face consumers and merchants alike.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=73887
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