In this week's issue: Nicotine-free tobacco, the oil curse,
warnings for restaurant patrons, and more.
---Art---
Smithsonian previews a major new art exhibition inspired by
the friendly competition and cross-pollination between Henri
Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=120158
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=120158
---Business---
According to Wired, a small cigarette company hopes to
strike it rich by packing cigarettes with Amish-grown,
genetically modified, nicotine-free tobacco that may help
smokers quit.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=120218
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=120218
---Economics---
A piece in Fortune contends that Venezuela's poverty,
paradoxically, is the result of its oil wealth.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=119809
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=119809
---Education---
An Education Week article looks at downsized California tech
workers making a second life as schoolteachers.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=119798
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=119798
---Food---
Smart Money offers "ten things restaurants won't tell you"
that diners might want to know.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=120312
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=120312
---Politics---
A New Republic article attempts to explain why racial
preferences like affirmative action survive politically
despite the fact that most U.S. voters oppose them.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=120194
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=120194
---Science---
Science News reports on the discovery of a small dinosaur
with feathers on all its limbs, possibly an intermediate in
the evolution of birds.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=120014
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=120014
Smithsonian profiles iceberg wrangler Jerome Baker, whose
job is to protect North Atlantic oil rigs from the perils of
million-ton chunks of ice.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=120154
similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=120154
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