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Location: Mailing Lists / Archive General Hot Articles / 2002-10-09

In this week's issue:  Employee theft, business attire, new
war games, and the workings of the mind.

---Business---
Optimize argues that a job as big as corporate security
requires a team effort across the enterprise.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=109642
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=109642
An Inc article deals with the difficult problem of
recovering, both business-wise and psychologically, when a
trusted employee steals from you.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=109875
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=109875
Inc profiles a woman entrepreneur who somehow manages to run
two businesses and raise five children, including a toddler
and an infant, at the same time.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=109888
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=109888
A Red Herring editorial recommends that tech companies
attack the entertainment establishment head-on, luring
content creators away with innovative technologies.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=110023
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=110023

---Computing---
Is Microsoft serious about offering secure products? A PC
World article asks this question, noting that the flood of
security warnings for Microsoft software hasn't abated.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=109958
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=109958

---Education---
A study reported on in Education Week finds that many U.S.
states are doing a better job preparing students for
college, reversing a trend.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=110276
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=110276

---Fashion---
An Employment Review article runs down the current trends
and guidelines for appropriate office attire.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=109685
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=109685

---Health---
An American Family Physician article warns people taking
nutritional supplements for prostate disease that they're
probably not getting what they think they're getting.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=109873
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=109873
Will the world be a better, healthier place if we all go
vegetarian?  Time Europe has an overview of the issue.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=110106
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=110106

---History---
Salon interviews a pair of historians who have just
completed a new and somewhat controversial book about the
origins of the Holocaust.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=109616
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=109616

---Science---
Reason has an interesting interview with evolutionary
biologist Stephen Pinker, author of the new book How the
Mind Works.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=109933
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=109933
A Science News article looks at how a space elevator might
be made within the next 15 years.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=109859
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=109859
The September 11 attacks produced an entirely new form of
pollution, writes American Prospect, one whose environmental
and health effects scientists are still trying to puzzle
out.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=110045
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=110045

---U.S. Politics & Society---
The U.S. Army is giving away a compelling new
custom-designed computer game as a recruitment tool, reports
Salon, and is drawing both praise and criticism for the
approach.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=109883
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=109883

---World Politics & Society---
Outside sends an investigative journalist to Iran, who finds
a unique society that is not so easily boiled down into
"Axis of Evil" simplisticity.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=109761
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=109761