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Location: Mailing Lists / Archive General Hot Articles / 2001-02-14

Happy Valentine's Day from us at MagPortal.com.  Every week
we show our love for our readers by passing on what have
been the most interesting magazine articles on the Web. 
Enjoy!
 
---U.S. Politics---
An Atlantic Monthly article describes one American's quest
to get back 1.5 million square miles of land on islands over
which the U.S. has mysteriously ceded sovereignty.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49235
A Salon article describes how a few erroneous details about
gifts the Clintons received were snowballed by the press
into a huge, and dubious, scandal.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49718
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49718
A U.S. News piece remarks on how once-staid Clintonites are
now beginning to lose their faith.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49756
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49756
Time reports on a grisly dog attack in San Francisco and the
issues surrounding whether to prosecute the owners.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49802
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49802
Weekly Standard has an article on how President Bush's MBA
background and management style are confounding the media.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49851
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49851
A Time author reports from the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge on the new administration's plans to drill for oil
there.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49833
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49833

---Middle East---
An editorial in The New Republic responds to Ariel Sharon's
victory in Israel's prime-ministerial election.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49543
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49543
 
---Asia---
Fraternity violence has turned Philippine campuses into
spawning grounds for cronyism and corruption, reports FEER.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49253
 
---Europe---
A Wired feature portrays the culture clash in Europe between
traditional Continental conservatism and American-style
exuberance over technology.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50229
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50229
A Time Europe article reports that the trafficking of women
for sex is growing in Eastern Europe, but law enforcement
has been slow to respond.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50033
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50033

---Science---
U.S. News reports on scientists' plans to build a drill that
can penetrate the Earth's crust and plumb the mantle.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49771
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49771
Wired reports on the sophisticated and specialized computers
inside today's Formula One race cars.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50325
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50325
A Technology Review article reports on new navigation
systems that make flying a small plane easier than driving a
car.  Will this be the wave of the future?
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50236
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50236
 
---Health---
Time Europe reports on accounts that the drug ecstasy may be
a reliable treatment for Parkinson's disease.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49892
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49892
Technology Review previews some futuristic devices for
connecting our bodies more directly to computers and medical
systems.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50178

---Business---
Fortune reports that Porsche, despite growing sales of its
sports cars, is planning to make a sport-utility bandwagon
-- er, vehicle.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49278
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49278
Time reports that falling interest rates and wounded stocks
look to precipitate a resurgence in 1980s-style corporate
raiding and buy-outs.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49782
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49782
A Business 2.0 article examines what the author believes has
been the greatest failure of e-businesses:  the idea that ad
revenue alone will support a site.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49949
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49949
 
---Finance---
An eCompany Now article tells investors to look at how
companies place financial bets as a clue to how their stocks
might move.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49338
A Kiplinger's article discusses so-called "all-weather"
mutual funds that shelter investors from market turbulence.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49542
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49542

---Computers & The Internet---
Salon polls a panel of experts on their reactions to the
federal court ruling against Napster.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50045
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=50045
An eCompany Now writer conducts an experiment, responding to
every piece of spam he receives and seeing what happens. 
The results may surprise you.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49357
Scientific American reports the electronics industry is
bowing to Hollywood's latest plans to include
copy-preventing codes in next-generation hard disks.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49865
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49865
If you're looking to start a new relationship now that
Valentine's Day has come and gone, check out Men's Fitness's
tips for courting online.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=50233

---Books---
The new book "Fast Food Nation" critiques the health and
labor practices of the burger business.  Will it get
Americans to change their eating habits?  A Salon writer
expresses doubt.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49608
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49608
  buy the book:
  http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395977894/magportalcom
Scientific American reviews the new book 'Body Bazaar: The
Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age'.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49856
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49856
  buy the book:
  http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0609605402/magportalcom
 
---Movies---
An Entertainment Today article tells how "Hannibal", the
sequel to "Silence of the Lambs", came to be made ten years
later.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49748
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49748
 
---Education---
An Education Week article argues that the peculiarities of
the English language make phonics a bad way to teach
reading.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=49864
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=49864