In this week's issue: cowboy poetry makes a comeback,
Windows XP gets tested, forecasters envision the post-attack
economy, and a Kennedy gets arrested on purpose.
---Books & Poetry---
FEER reviews Barbara Garson's Money Makes The World Go
Around: One Investor Tracks Her Cash Through the Global
Economy from Brooklyn to Bangkok and Back.
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Buy this book:
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"Cowboy poetry" is enjoying a renaissance of sorts, reports
Humanities.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=76954
---Business---
As buzz marketing becomes more contrived, Business 2.0 asks
if there will be a backlash.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77126
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Business 2.0 looks at reborn dotcom eHobbies and offers 7
tips for turning around a failing e-business.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77167
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Business 2.0 claims that many companies fail to make good
use of the data they have about their customers, and offers
advice.
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A Business 2.0 article offers encouragement for managers
enduring the midpoints of major projects when everything
seems to go wrong.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77139
---Computing---
PC World looks thoroughly at Windows XP, detailing its
features, speed, stability, and compatibility.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77185
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Mobile Computing looks at the options for mobile
professionals who need Internet access.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77175
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PC World surveyed 27,000 readers about PC vendors' customer
service, and found that service is getting worse across the
board.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77232
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---Investing---
Business 2.0 gives its readers strategies for finding "safe"
stocks.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77120
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Kiplingers takes a look at how the market has fared after
catastrophic events in the past, and offers investment
strategies with specific stock picks.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77113
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---Movies---
Salon reviews "Training Day," a cops-and-robbers thriller in
which Denzel Washington plays a monstrous character, for a
change.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77423
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---Science (and related politics)---
According to a Time Asia article, the news that mad cow
disease had spread to Japan was badly mishandled by the
Japanese government, leading to consumer panic.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77275
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Science News reports on new findings that might lead to
better ways of fighting anthrax.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77154
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A Scientific American article declares we're entering the
golden age of antiviral drugs and outlines the approaches
involved in developing them.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77389
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---Terrorism---
An American Prospect article contends it was no accident
that the crashes of September 11 had such fearsome visual
power: this was made-for-TV terror.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=76947
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FEER predicts an upswing in heroin production in and export
from Afghanistan, citing evidence that the Taliban has
lifted a U.S.-funded ban on opium poppy cultivation.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77076
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A Salon article tries to describe the psychological fallout
of September 11th's events upon New Yorkers.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77021
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The New Republic's take on the Anti-Terrorism Act being
considered by Congress is that it at once does too much and
not enough.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=76996
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A New Republic article looks at hawala, an entrenched,
little-understood, and unregulated system of money transfer
that terrorist groups are said to use.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77319
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---U.S. Politics---
A Salon article suggests reinstating the draft, but this
time as compulsory national service for men and women, with
both military and non-military options.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77092
Robert F. Kennedy was arrested trying to stop Navy bombing
exercises on the pristine and ecologically vulnerable Puerto
Rican island of Vieques. He narrates his experience for
Outside.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=77350
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