In this week's issue: Testing prospective employees, the
online gambling life, embarrassing e-mails, the death of
P/E, and remote-control rats...
---Business Technology---
Optimize reports on a study of businesses' Internet
initiatives that found huge increases in productivity and
profitability.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=96962
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=96962
A CIO article argues that businesses, in order to thwart
cyberattackers, need to better share information and
analysis about their security holes and exploits.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=96686
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=96686
Optimize looks at applying manufacturing's Six Sigma
approach to quality in business-process planning.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=96899
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=96899
Are pre-employment skills, intelligence, and personality
tests worth the effort for employers? An Employment Review
article investigates.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=97111
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=97111
---Computing---
A Computer User article looks at the current state of color
reproduction accuracy in digital photography and at
improvements on the horizon.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=96691
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=96691
---Health & Medicine---
A Managed Care article looks at interaction between the
Canadian and U.S. medical systems as an opportunity to
highlight differences between the systems.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=96654
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=96654
Experts are calling for a more streamlined system to deal
with the increasing number of food poisoning outbreaks in
schools, reports Education Week.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=97250
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=97250
---Internet---
A Salon article takes the reader inside the world of online
casino gambling.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=96884
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=96884
A PC World article collects some of the most disastrous and
embarrassing e-mail mistakes.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=97110
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=97110
The state of Michigan is setting up an online court for
business disputes in order to speed the judicial process,
according to CIO.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=96726
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=96726
The pros and cons of legally obligating IT workers to report
online child pornography are debated in Optimize.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=96936
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=96936
Science News looks at what behavioral scientists are finding
out about the Internet's effect on the social lives of its
users.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=97034
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=97034
Salon tries to sort out a tangled mess of pop-up ads,
spyware, and malicious browser-vulnerability exploits that
made up an insidious online marketing campaign.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=97237
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=97237
---Investing---
A Mutual Funds article explains why a popular method of
stock valuation, the price-earnings ratio, has been
undermined by suspect accounting.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=97220
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=97220
---Science---
According to Science News, researchers have found a way to
steer rats through a maze by manipulating remote-control
electrodes in the rats' brains.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=97038
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=97038
---U.S. Politics & Society---
Do farm subsidies make sense for the United States anymore?
A Salon piece examines the issue.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=96725
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=96725
Employment Review presents its annual list of the best
places to live and work in America.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=97120
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=97120
---World Politics & Society---
Is having such a close relationship with the United States
bad for Britain? A Time Europe article looks into this
contention raised by a new book.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=97094
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=97094
A Time Asia article chronicles the life of a Burmese rock
star -- a difficult career in a country where every song
must be vetted by a military junta's censors.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=97181
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=97181
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