In this week's issue: Economic stormclouds, the birth of
the mouse, what it's like to be a hunter-gatherer, and more.
---Business---
According to Commercial Investment Real Estate, courts
around the U.S. are beginning to uphold the legality of
electronic signatures.
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More and more angel investors are forming into groups, says
an Inc. article, which changes the funding landscape for
startups considerably.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=150375
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---Economics---
According to Atlantic Monthly, the prospects for unemployed
Americans are worsening.
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An Atlantic Monthly article foresees a painful evaporation
of the American middle class unless major economic changes
are undertaken.
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---Food---
An Outside article follows the author's quest to reassemble
a diet of serious game, based on haute-cuisine pioneer
Escoffier's 1903 food bible.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=149968
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---Health---
A BusinessWeek article argues that the laws should be
changed to allow the FDA to get harmful supplements off the
market more quickly.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=150198
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---Internet & Computing---
Search Engine Report lists the most searched-for terms of
the year 2003 on the major search engines.
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In a Wired article, a pioneer of the Internet and the mouse
talks about computing's early days.
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A new study reported in InternetNews finds that 33% of
Americans now get political information online, eroding the
dominance of traditional media in that regard.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=150421
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---Investing---
Financial Advisor allows a finance professor to explain why
the conventional wisdom, that stocks are safe over the long
run, is wrong.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=150105
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A stock analyst for Motley Fool looks at the bullish and
bearish cases for 2004 and comes down on the side of the
bears.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=150215
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---Law---
Motley Fool reports that one Wisconsin man is threatening to
sue his cable company for making him fat and drunk.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=149996
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