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Location: Mailing Lists / Archive General Hot Articles / 2001-08-15

In this week's issue:  executive philosophy, lucrative
law-enforcement, why fine Bordeaux might soon come with a
screw-top, and more...
 
---Advertising---
BMW commissioned five A-list directors to shoot short action
films advertising BMW vehicles.  A New Republic article
critiques both the resultant Internet films and the new
"advertainment" phenomenon.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=72004
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=72004
 
---Business & Strategy---
A Business 2.0 article explores why Ayn Rand's "objectivist"
philosophy has so many followers among the ranks of
high-tech executives.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71400
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71400
The weak economy combined with the threat of bankruptcy
reform has led to a spike in the number of deadbeat accounts
written off by credit-card lenders, according to Financial
Services Marketing.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71953
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71953
A Time article reports on serious charges of malpractice in
an industry with zero tolerance for error:  commercial
aircraft maintenance.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71683
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71683
Companies like 3M and FedEx have found that hard times are
the best times for innovation, reports CIO.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=72109
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=72109
 
---Driving---
A Car & Driver article looks at cameras that automatically
identify and ticket red-light runners, concluding that
they're more a tool for collecting money than saving lives.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=72008
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=72008
Business 2.0 reports on new technology that may soon make
the bus the fastest way to commute.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71402
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71402

---E-Business---
What's it like running the web strategy of notorious
perfectionist Martha Stewart's media empire?  Tough,
according to a CIO article.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=72091
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=72091
 
---Education---
Technology Review shows how the U.S. educational system
produces scientific elites and scientific illiterates --
with little in between -- and discusses why that's not a
good thing.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=72010
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=72010
 
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---International Politics---
Does a more-friendly relationship between the U.S. and India
portend a coming cold war with China?  A Salon article
weighs the evidence.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71662
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71662
Time reports that, while Mexico complains about the U.S.'s
immigration policies, it is refusing entry to migrants from
even poorer nations in Central America.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71682
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71682

---The Internet---
In The Industry Standard, a law professor goes over the
finer points of taxing the Internet, with the U.S.
moratorium on such taxes coming up for reconsideration soon.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71893
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71893
Critics of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act have long
felt that the law is too harsh.  Now they have a test case,
reports The Industry Standard.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71897
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71897
Swiss watch company Swatch has introduced a new time
measurement called "Internet time" that it hopes will become
popular, reports CIO.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=72072
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=72072
 
---Science---
Scientific American reviews a new book that depicts
America's scientific bureaucracy as the quintessential
bloated, whiny special-interest group.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71813
Business 2.0 reports that Detroit Edison is rolling out
liquid nitrogen-cooled superconducting ceramic power cables
in order to increase efficiency.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71362
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71362
Science News examines the ongoing attempts of brain
scientists to understand dreams, one hundred years after
Freud first addressed the topic.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71563
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71563
A Technology Review article describes the (disturbing) lack
of attention paid to security and encryption by mobile phone
and wireless network providers.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=72001
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=72001
 
---Sports---
Salon profiles Marvin Miller, the baseball players' union
leader who first challenged the assumption that professional
athletes are chattel and won them worker's rights.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71313
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71313

---Wine---
Wine snobbery takes a hit, reports FEER, as a study
determines that screw-tops are better than corks for keeping
wine.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=71466
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=71466