In this week's issue: Music for the branded lifestyle,
blaming the parents instead of the teacher, legalizing
drugs, and a World Cup preview...
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---Business---
CIO looks at different ways that employers can encourage
their workers to share what they know with one another.
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A Salon piece tells how graphics card maker Nvidia has
triumphed in a turbulent, fast-moving and cutthroat market
that must feed the voracious technology appetites of gamers.
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Business 2.0 profiles the little company behind the branded
"lifestyle" compilation CDs sold at retailers like Pottery
Barn, J. Crew, and Williams-Sonoma.
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If you're going to make changes to your business, an
Entrepreneur article suggests you do it quickly.
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---Family---
America doesn't have a crisis in schooling, says an
Education Week article; it has a crisis in child-rearing.
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---Health---
More good news for wine drinkers: researchers have found
drinking a few glasses a day helps to protect against the
common cold, according to Science News.
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Might researchers fare better against cancer by treating it
as a chronic disease to subdue and control while they search
for a cure? A piece in The Scientist investigates.
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---Internet---
Salon examines the quickly evolving world of online dating
services -- a burgeoning industry where singles have learned
to fine-tune their personal "brands" like so many cola
marketers.
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Business 2.0 has a roundup of all the new online ad formats,
from what they are to what they cost.
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---Investing---
A Business 2.0 article examines mistakes people commonly
make managing their 401(k) retirement plans.
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---Social Issues---
A Time Asia article criticizes the criminal justice system
in Pakistan, where a raped woman can be convicted of
adultery and sentenced to death by public stoning.
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In an American Prospect article, researchers who completed a
ten-year-long study of the effects of drug legalization
conclude that legalization would reduce drug-related crime
but increase drug use and addiction.
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---Sports---
A Salon piece remarks that negotiations between Major League
Baseball players and team owners represent a bizarre
inversion of normal labor disputes.
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Sports Illustrated handicaps the field of finalists for
soccer's 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=98333
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---U.S. Politics & Society---
A Mother Jones article examines the Bush administration's
plans for building new, smaller nuclear weapons for use in
conventional battles.
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Salon interviews the woman fighter pilot who successfully
fought to free US servicewomen stationed in Saudi Arabia
from regulations mandating head-to-toe Muslim robes off
base.
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