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Location: Mailing Lists / Archive General Hot Articles / 2002-06-19

In this week's issue:  Pieces on pot, the Constitution,
distributed R & D, audio sleuths, and Pac-Man.

---Art---
In The Atlantic Monthly, a reviewer laments that nature
photographer Ansel Adams would not have been pleased by the
new retrospective "Ansel Adams at 100."
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=100817
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=100817

---Books---
Salon reviews "Pot Planet," a marijuana-oriented travelogue
of sorts, and finds it to be surprisingly readable and
entertaining.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=100368
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=100368
 Buy this book:
  http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802138977/magportalcom
American Prospect reviews a new book that tries to point out
how undemocratic the U.S. Constitution is.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=100730
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=100730
 Buy "How Democratic Is the American Constitution?"
  http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300092180/magportalcom

---Business---
An Entrepreneur article examines how self-serve technology
is changing many different types of business.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=100460
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=100460
Fast Company examines one of Google's solutions to staying
ahead of other search engines:  have every employee
contribute ideas to R & D.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=100501
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=100501
A CIO piece looks at why it's been difficult for state and
local governments to outsource their IT operations
successfully.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=100711
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=100711

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---Music---
A Time Europe piece looks at gypsy music, a genre that is
exploding in Europe and that some have likened to the birth
of jazz.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=100589
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=100589

---Science---
HHMI Bulletin looks at the lengths some scientists will go
to in order to win cover placement for their articles in
scientific journals.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=100348
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=100348
A Wired article looks at some of the approaches forensic
audio scientists are proposing to find out what was on the
18 1/2 erased minutes of Richard Nixon's Watergate tapes.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=100333
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=100333

---Science vs. Non-science---
A Salon article deconstructs the methods of popular TV
"psychic" John Edwards, asserting his reliance on basic laws
of statistics.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=100334
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=100334
A Scientific American article forwards "15 answers to
Creationist nonsense."
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=100706
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=100706

---Video Games---
Salon assesses the cultural significance, in its time, of
Pac-Man.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=100563

---World Politics---
Atlantic Unbound talks to historian Michael Oren about his
new history of the Six Day War in 1967, which he contends
has shaped the modern-day Middle East and its politics.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=100271
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=100271
A piece in The New Republic underscores the importance of
German nationalism to the success or failure of Europe.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=100619
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=100619