In this week's issue: The cars of spring, Wal-Mart vs.
Asia, why drug testing in schools doesn't deter kids, and
visions of John McCain as a Democrat...
---Automobiles---
Atlantic Monthly examines the arrival each spring of more
and more seductive new cars.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=95199
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=95199
---Business---
A piece in CIO urges companies to work harder to understand
what each customer is worth to them.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=95387
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=95387
CIO looks at the differences between the United States and
Europe in how companies handle the private information of
their customers.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=95393
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=95393
Time Asia looks at the plans of multinational "superstore"
retailers to expand into Asian markets -- and the backlash
confronting them there.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=95525
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=95525
---Investing---
A Kiplinger's article recommends the shares of home building
companies.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=95550
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=95550
---Science---
Salon covers the ongoing debate -- both archaeological and
political -- over where the earliest Americans came from.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=95520
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=95520
Science News reports on a new field of ecological study that
seeks to understand how artificial light affects plant and
animal life at night.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=95358
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=95358
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---Social Issues---
New Republic offers a secular argument against human cloning
for research purposes.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=95465
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=95465
According to Kiplinger's, the families of nursing home
residents are banding together at many institutions to
provide a voice for advocating improvements in patient care,
living conditions, and the working conditions of caregivers.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=95453
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=95453
According to Salon, mandatory drug tests don't deter high
school students from dope, as many students see beating the
system as a challenge.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=95476
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=95476
---U.S. Politics & Society---
John McCain should run for president in 2004, as a Democrat,
according to a New Republic article.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=95118
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=95118
An Atlantic Monthly article looks at some of the prison
letters of Martin Luther King's convicted killer, James Earl
Ray.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=95134
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=95134
---World Politics & Society---
Europe must stake out a position of its own on the Middle
East crisis, according to a Time Europe piece.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=95446
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=95446
Time Europe reports on the skyscraper-plane collision in
Milan and its echoes of September 11.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=95441
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=95441
Salon interviews a writer with unusually extensive access to
the Afghan war about what's really going on there.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=95574
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=95574
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