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Location: Mailing Lists / Archive General Hot Articles / 2001-06-27

In this week's edition: putting the noble in Barnes & Noble,
pink-slip parties, smelling for space, and more.  If you
like what you read, please feel free to forward this
newsletter to your friends.
 
---Books & Book Culture---
A piece in The Atlantic Monthly argues that the chain
bookstores -- contrary to criticism from the cultural elite
-- have enormously enriched our cultural life.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66717
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66717
In Salon, a writer complains of how technological advances
like cellphones are making it impossible for authors to use
traditional plot devices in fiction and still sound
plausible.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66369
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66369
The Atlantic Monthly reviews "I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My
Baby!", a history of the tabloids and their cultural impact.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66860
 Buy this book:
  http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573929026/magportalcom

---Business---
Has the Internet stopped growing?  The answer seems to be
"no" for now, but, The Industry Standard reports, the
possibility has many in the telecom industry worried.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66850
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66850
U.S. News looks at some of the unconventional approaches
companies are taking to make firings a bit sweeter for
downsized workers.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66585
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66585
With job losses piling up across many industries, Industry
Standard germanely delves into all aspects of severance: 
what people are getting and how they are getting it.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66815
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66815
A Business 2.0 article reports in depth about five proven
new technologies that businesses are benefitting from now.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66127
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66127
 
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---Hiking---
In Smithsonian, a writer describes the experience of
community at one of the Appalachian Trail's more remote
waypoints.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66710
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66710

---Science---
New Scientist interviews NASA's top sniffer, George Aldrich,
who is responsible for making sure no nauseating odors end
up burning astronauts' noses.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66512
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66512
Science News reports on the two new species of dinosaur
fossil unearthed in the southwestern United States.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66435
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66435
A New Scientist article reports on research that seems to
have found a neural basis for the specific kinds of
hallucinations that psychedelic drugs induce.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66514
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66514
 
---Social Issues---
We human beings are far more than the sum of our genetic
parts, argues a New Republic article, so we needn't fear
genetic research.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66278
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66278
A Salon article reports that controversy over emergency
contraception -- the so-called morning-after pill -- may
take center stage in the abortion debate.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66336
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66336
A New Republic piece complains that computer-generated women
like Tomb Raider heroine Lara Croft are setting the
body-image bar for real women unnaturally high.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66445
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66445

---World Politics---
FEER examines the effectiveness of Taiwan's "dollar
diplomacy" that pays Central American countries to recognize
Taipei.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66391
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66391
An Asiaweek article profiles five prominent philanthropists
who are helping to bridge Asia's digital divide.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66493
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66493
A Weekly Standard article claims the Middle East conflict
has become polarized not over a question of land, but over a
moral question: is Israel a criminal state?
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=66711
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=66711