We're happy to share with you the most interesting magazine
articles our editors have come across over the past week.
Pleasant reading!
---U.S. Politics---
Time Asia examines President Bush's tough talk on foreign
policy and wonders whether he will overcome his inexperience
and "walk the walk".
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55393
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55393
American Prospect looks at the motivation behind Bush's
faith-based programs initiative.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54794
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54794
A New Republic article charges the Bush Treasury team with
ineptitude and failure to address the economic slowdown in a
productive way.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54951
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54951
---U.S. Business---
Industry Standard reports on Boeing's move from Seattle and
the aerospace company's big plans for the future.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55298
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55298
U.S. News reports on the new approaches marketers are taking
to sell to aging boomers who don't want to believe they're
growing old.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55031
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55031
A Salon article shows how the global beef scare is pounding
McDonald's.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55066
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55066
---World Business---
Red Herring looks at both the problems and untapped
potential of tech startups in South Africa.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55073
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55073
FEER reports on Chinese appliance manufacturer Haier's
current move to take the American market by storm, which
includes opening a U.S. factory.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54856
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54856
A FEER article reports that ExxonMobil closed its three
onshore fields in Indonesia's Aceh province because of
bombings and a kidnapping.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54872
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54872
---The Internet---
Red Herring reports on the quest for (and against)
interoperability in instant messaging, which may surpass
e-mail as the leading form of communication on the Internet.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55075
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55075
Business 2.0 writes about coming improvements in the
technologies of image-searching on the web.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55278
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55278
A Business 2.0 article profiles one Internet grocery
delivery service that is actually profitable.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55305
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55305
---Handheld Computing---
Business 2.0 has an extensive article about "The Palm
Phenom" covering the history of PDAs, their evolution, and
future prospects.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55317
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55317
---Social Issues---
A Weekly Standard article argues that, for political
reasons, the media has ignored less-controversial stem-cell
research that doesn't involve fetal tissue.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54940
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54940
A Weekly Standard article reasons that it's time to build
more nuclear power plants to solve the U.S.'s energy woes.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55143
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55143
Time reports on a Supreme Court case that could decide
whether families can allow "minimally conscious" patients to
be taken off of life-support.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55269
An Asiaweek article explains how WTO entry for China will
put serious pressure on that country's sub-standard legal
system.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55217
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55217
Addressing the issue of slave reparations recently brought
back into the national spotlight, a Time author argues that
they are morally just but politically hopeless.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55433
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55433
---Tickets---
Kiplinger's has a piece on America's ticket economy and how
to score seats for sold-out events.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55198
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55198
---Movies---
A Salon article gives high marks to host Steve Martin in a
review of the Academy Awards ceremony.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55316
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55316
Salon reviews the movie Heartbreakers starring Sigourney
Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55007
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55007
---Health---
A Time article reports on new treatments for phobias of all
kinds.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55431
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55431
---Sports---
For a Smithsonian article, a writer goes through the rigors
of a school for aspiring baseball umpires and find how hard
their job actually is.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54805
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54805
A Sports Illustrated article hypothesizes that the economic
downturn could affect the sports industry.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=54830
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=54830
---People with Large Hats---
New Republic writes on the peculiar exile culture of Texans
in Washington, D.C.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55169
Time handicaps the field of Roman Catholic Cardinals from
which will emerge a successor to the ailing Pope John Paul
II.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=55273
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=55273
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