In this week's issue: advice for the long-term unemployed,
news on SARS in Asia, how to remember things better, the
changing game of baseball, and more.
---Business---
An article in Industry Week predicts a coming shortage of
skilled workers in the United States.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=128843
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=128843
An Entrepreneur article says business opportunities abound
in the luxury market, even in a down economy.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=129058
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=129058
---Careers---
A piece in Fortune offers advice for those who have been
out-of-work and job-hunting so long that they have given up.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=128883
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=128883
---Health---
A Time Asia piece shows what life is like in Hong Kong now
that the deadly respiratory disease SARS has the city locked
down and scared.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=129163
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=129163
Time Asia finds the Chinese government doing a frighteningly
bad job of managing the SARS crisis.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=129175
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=129175
---Science---
According to research reported in Science News, you may
better remember how something looks or tastes if you don't
initially try to describe it in words.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=129030
---Sports---
A former pitcher talks about how the game of baseball has
changed to favor the hitter, in Popular Mechanics.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=128875
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=128875
An ex-US Olympic Commission official tells Sports
Illustrated that some high-profile American athletes were
allowed to bend the Olympics' anti-drug rules.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=128816
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=128816
---U.S. Politics & Society---
A piece in The American Prospect says Congress should never
again write the president a blank check to make war.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=128794
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=128794
Time Asia reports on a seemingly made-for-TV case involving
a Chinese-American double agent, affairs with FBI agents,
and stolen American secrets.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=129160
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=129160
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