Newsweek International articles from August 2001

Newsweek International archives from August 2001

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
August 6, 2001... A Slow and Easy Way of Life Readers of our July 2 story on the Slow Food and Slow City movements in Europe readily endorsed the pursuit of a more relaxed lifestyle. An American in Europe said he appreciates getting more vacation time and...

A Friend Indeed.(George W. Bush in Europe)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... They don't call him l'Americano for nothing. Italian Prime Minster Silvio Berlusconi proved last week that he'll say and do (almost) anything to be America's new best friend in Europe. Berlusconi turned his post-G8 meeting in Rome with George...

Ring in the Old.(Indonesia)
August 6, 2001... Indonesia's most famous housewife suddenly has a much bigger house. After nearly two years as a silent and often sidelined vice president-- and six months of quietly backing her former boss Abdurrahman Wahid into a corner--Megawati Sukarnoputri...

A Balkan Beirut.(war in Macedonia)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... When gunfire broke out around his small house in the village of Neprosteno, Borovoj Georgievski, 58, grabbed his wife and dove for the floor. He assumed it was Albanian guerrillas of the National Liberation Army, fighting the Macedonian police....

Dirty Secret.(Yokohama's International Stadium)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... It hardly seems like the ideal place to kick around a football. The field rests atop a toxic-waste dump. According to environmentalists, when the wind blows, dust tainted with PCBs--polychlorinated biphenyls, toxic byproducts of several...

Keeping the Bad News at Bay.(Asian economies)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Economies all across Asia are limping badly, hobbled by the slowdown in demand from the United States. In the first half of 2001, Japan fell into recession, and preliminary numbers suggest that Taiwan and Singapore also contracted. Yet as in...

Return of the Rebel.(Daniel Ortega)
August 6, 2001... The air shakes with the rhythm of campaign jingles, the explosion of fireworks and cries of "Daniel! Daniel!" There he is, perched on the bed of a pickup winding through the potholed streets, waving to the crowd as it swells around him. He...

The Next Big Thing?(DoCoMo in Europe)(Company Profile)
August 6, 2001... The Japanese mobile invasion of Europe is being prepared inside an anonymous office building in the workaday city of Dusseldorf, Germany. There, a team of 50 Germans, Dutch and Japanese are readying DoCoMo's i-mode Internet phone service for...

'I Consider Myself a Poet'.(Daniel Saavedra Ortega)(Interview)
August 6, 2001... On the campaign trail Daniel Ortega recently spoke with NEWSWEEK's Alan Zarembo in Managua. Excerpts: On whether he has changed: In 1990 we held new elections--which were not free because the United States blackmailed the people--but...

Irrational Depression.(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... There are times when it's probably a good thing that the U.S. economy isn't run by logic. Because if you applied logic to the news these days, the logical conclusion would be that the economy has fallen off a cliff and is about to splatter...

A Royal Leap of Faith.(Bulgaria's new prime minister, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Simeon II)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... On a September evening in 1946, Simeon II, the 9-year-old boy king of Bulgaria, was hustled by the communist authorities onto a train and into a life of exile. He felt lucky to have escaped with his life. Now he is back. Simeon's reformist...

The New New York.(interpretation of census data on city with specific attention to its immigrants)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 6, 2001... "There are roughly three New Yorks," E. B. White wrote in his slender paean to the city, "Here Is New York": the city of the native, "who accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable"; the city of the commuter, "devoured by...

Changing of The Guard.(new immigrants to Queens)
August 6, 2001... Ten years ago Anthony Mungroo was a fresh-faced immigrant from Guyana, peddling pots and pans on the streets of New Jersey, wringing a $2 profit out of each sale. Today he sits in his new office in the Richmond Hill area of Queens, nattily...

Tea and Silk Slippers.(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Twenty years ago New York had only one Chinatown, in lower Manhattan. Now there are three others. One is in Flushing, Queens, and two are in Brooklyn, which has become a prime destination of Chinese immigrants: a fledgling one in Sheepshead Bay...

An Urban Revival.(the Bronx)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... It used to be that Nicolas Bielma could hardly give away a tortilla. When he opened his store in Hunts Point in the early 1990s, the South Bronx was a burned-out wasteland. What use could the locals--mainly African-Americans and Puerto...

Riding the Trail of the New Pioneers.(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... When air travelers from abroad arrive in America, clutching tickets marked New York, they may carry visions of Manhattan's skyline. But they actually disembark in the borough of Queens. Here, in the 1930s, I was raised and went to school--in an...

The Next Bitter Pill.(corporate earnings )(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... American investors won't have to wait for third-quarter announcements in October to know whether corporate earnings are continuing to come up short. Companies used to wait until earnings season to share bad news. Today, driven by new government...

Bringing Raisins to China.(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Something very strange was cooking in the kitchen of Shanghai's swank Shangri-la Hotel. The row of six industrial-size woks normally used to conjure up customer favorites sat idle in the corner. Instead of whipping up batches of twice-cooked...

Appropriate for All Ages.(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Much has been made in Japan of the clout of teenage girls, the arbiters of taste and uncrowned queens of the fashion industry. But when it comes to toys, a radically different demographic is beginning to call the shots. Japanese toymakers...

The Merchant of Happiness.(Guy Laliberte of Cirque du Soleil)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 6, 2001... From his hotel suite, you can see a public bench at the corner of Hyde Park. That's where Guy Laliberte spent his first night in London at 18. By his side were a backpack, two accordions, a mouth organ, spoons and a jew's-harp. He'd left his...

Life on the Edge.(California)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... If you don't like the weather in northern California, wait a few minutes and it'll change. (Mark Twain might have said that.) Other climates are similarly mutable. A year or so ago the streets of quiet Stanford and Palo Alto were made...

Cyberscope.(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... THE INTERNET Do-Good Hackers For as long as there have been computer networks, there have been hackers ready to break into them and cause trouble. So it is surprising that the biggest story to emerge from this year's Def Con hackers'...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... "We all want the same thing: a better world, or at least a less disgusting one." Giuliano Giuliani, father of Carlo Giuliani, the anti- globalization protestor killed during clashes at the Genoa G8 summit "He was not seen wielding a...

How Far Will Peres and Sharon Go?(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Sometimes the most improbable marriages are the ones that end up lasting the longest. In Israel, a five-month partnership between Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres--the hard- charging general and the indefatigable...

Soup Coup?(the Salvation Army in Russia)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Ah, the Salvation Army. Do-gooders in Santa suits who ring bells and serve soup to the poor. Not according to the Kremlin, though. The Russian government has been waging war with the Moscow chapter for nearly five years over a series of...

Son of a...(Augusto Pinochet Jr.)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... If you've got a famous dad, why not cash in? Augusto Pinochet Jr., son of the Chilean ex-dictator, is marketing wine bearing Papa's name. One fruity vintage: Mi General. Another, Gran Pareja, or Great Couple, bears a picture of Mom and Dad....

How Did the Iceman Goeth?(5,300-year-old hunter )(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Poor old Otzi. That's the nickname scientists gave the 5,300-year-old hunter found in the Italian Alps, who they assumed had died in his sleep (albeit in subzero temperatures). Turns out he was shot in the back with an arrow. So much for our...

Japan's Man of Many Faces.(Yasumasa Morimura )(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 6, 2001... Japanese portrait artist Yasumasa Morimura photographs his face onto masterworks by Van Gogh and Rembrandt. He has impersonated Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn. His interpretation of iconic Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is on exhibit at Tokyo's...

Cash 'n' Carry.(caddies' wages)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Ian Woosnam received a two-stroke penalty for having too many clubs in his bag at the recent British Open. No, his caddie, Miles Byrne, wasn't getting revenge on his boss for his meager paycheck. It was a simple mistake. But the miscount might...

The Go-to Guy.(Vladimir Putin )(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Suddenly, Russian President Vladimir Putin is the world's go-to guy. National-security adviser Condoleezza Rice jetted into Moscow last week, seeking Putin's cooperation on missile defense. Now comes North Korea's ever-eccentric leader Kim Jong...

Mail Call.
August 13, 2001... The Bottom of the Global Barrel Our July 9 Special Report on the world's worst countries inspired letters of praise and of scorn. One reader congratulated us for "having gone deep into each country's heart and showing readers a reality not...

O to Be a Dog in Paris!(mayor Yves Contassot tackles city's legendary canine poo problem)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... When Yves Contassot ran in the Paris municipal elections a few months ago, one especially pungent issue dogged him. Other politicians turned up their noses. But voters sensed this Green Party candidate would be different. "Do you have the...

Facing A Grisly Past.(Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge)
August 13, 2001... The black-and-white photograph, stapled to a yellowed document deep in the archives, is evidence of a past that Khieu Ches would rather forget. The picture was taken in 1977, soon after the peasant boy--then 16--arrived at a school in Phnom...

Justice, Not Vengeance.(Hun Sen on Khmer Rouge trial, Cambodia)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 13, 2001... An avid golfer, Hun Sen prides himself on always knowing the right club to use at the right time. Recently he has tempered his opposition to trials of top Khmer Rouge leaders. But he continues to berate the United Nations for demanding that any...

The Coming Rail Boom.(Trans-Siberian Railroad expansion through North and South Korea)
August 13, 2001... Talk about accidental tourists. Kim Jong Il, North Korea's shadowy strongman, is a homebody if ever there was one. He hates flying. He fears assassins. And when he met South Korean media executives in Pyongyang last year, he quipped: "Why...

Rise of the Indian.(empowerment and indigenous peoples, South and Latin America)
August 13, 2001... Alejandro Toledo's first memories of racism date back to his childhood. Toledo was 6 when his family left their remote mountain village in search of a better life in the grimy Peruvian port city of Chimbote. The child of indigenous peasants...

Bye Bye, Barbie.(native Brazilian model Suyane Moreira represents more acceptable ethnic beauty)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... It's hard to imagine, but Suyane Moreira didn't always like what she saw in the mirror. Sure, she was pretty enough, the sort of pretty that can stop a conversation. And with her cinnamon skin, the curtain of raven hair and deep, black,...

Down a Slippery Slope?(Mapuche Puel open Batea Mahuida ski center, Argentina)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... Jose Miguel Puel is not your typical resort executive. As Argentina's Batea Mahuida ski center opens its second season, Puel frets that the tourists will disturb the area's serenity. If the dormant volcano the resort is named after gets angry,...

Out of the Shadows.(illegal aliens and social policy, United States and Europe)
August 13, 2001... When the writer H. G. Wells visited the United States at the turn of the 20th century, he was astonished at the native enthusiasm for immigrants. "Let them all come!" one elderly Yonkers resident exhorted the perplexed Briton. "We can do with...

Storming Fortress Europe.(unwarranted deaths upon illegal immigration)
August 13, 2001... When fishermen in the Sicilian village of Portopalo di Capo Passero finish unloading their morning's catch, many of them repair to the Bar Caprice up on the main street. One sleepy day last year, one of them brought in a strange catch from his...

The House Divided.(immigration policy, United Kingdom)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... When Amit Roy came up with the idea for an Asian Rich List, his editor at The Sunday Times of London dismissed it as "Minority stuff, old boy." Eleven years later, Britain's Richest Asian 200, published by the Asian newspaper Eastern Eye, is...

Into the Light.(immigration policy, Italy)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 13, 2001... At dusk, immigrants gather on the south side of the Duomo, the famous 15th-century cathedral, in Milan. Peruvian and Filipina maids, construction workers from North Africa, Ukraine and Moldova, and Nigerian and South Asian street sweepers chat,...

Coming Home to Harlem.(economic revival in New York City neighborhood)(Statistical Data Included)
August 13, 2001... It was the type of event Bill Clinton relishes. At his welcome-to- Harlem rally last week, the former president grooved with a group of sax players, reminisced about his boyhood, expounded on the troubles of the downtrodden and indulged in his...

A Thoroughly Modern Man.(painter Malcolm Morley)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... A pastel former Methodist church in a manicured, upscale village on Long Island, New York, is perhaps the last place you'd expect to find the painter Malcolm Morley living. As a youth in England, he ran away from the boys' naval school he'd...

Idle by Law.(war refugees barred from labor force, Germany)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... Things are looking a lot better for Imer Duraku now than when he was fleeing war-torn Kosovo eight years ago. Granted a haven in Germany, the 41-year-old attorney and his family just moved into a comfortable, three-bedroom apartment in Bernau,...

Momma, I Want to Swing.(Japanese drawn to gospel music)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... On a recent sweltering afternoon, about a dozen Japanese housewives, students and office workers gathered inside a tiny church on West 126th Street in Harlem. Staring at lyrics printed on bright yellow sheets of paper, they listened as the...

Made in the USA, Used in The West Bank and Gaza.(military aircraft)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 13, 2001... It may have been no accident that Israel kept its helicopters out of sight during the latest track-and-kill operation against Palestinian militants. The U.S.-made Apaches hovered miles from the Nablus office of the Islamic militant group Hamas,...

Women Robbing Women.(investment scheme defrauds women)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 13, 2001... The Women Empowering Women flier reads like the manifesto of a feminist collective. "Our main goal is the empowerment of women by providing for them the financial and emotional abilities to support themselves, their loved ones and their...

Crimes Against Humanity.(arrest of war criminals)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic. Their names resonate in the slaughterhouse of the Balkans. For years the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has sought their arrest and extradition to The Hague. Last week brought...

Stop Making Excuses.(effect of United States economy on Europe)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... It seems much longer, but only half a year ago Europe heaved a great collective sigh of relief. After years of sluggishness, the economy was growing and showing signs of a broad and sustained recovery. Most remarkably, all this was happening...

Can This Man Save the World?(Mike Moore)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 13, 2001... Never mind the business suit; Mike Moore has the look of a brawler. That may be a useful attribute for the head of the World Trade Organization these days. The 52-year-old former construction worker and meatpacker made his way through the ranks...

You Can't Be Too Clean.
August 13, 2001... We Brits still abide by the five-second rule. If food has been lying on the floor less than that, go ahead and eat it--regardless of surface conditions. Which explains the shocked faces clustered around my barbecue in Brooklyn the other day....

Cyberscope.(personal digital assistants in education)
August 13, 2001... Pocket-Size Education Imagine a day when students can interact with holographic professors who pop up out of handheld devices. That's a long way from today's personal digital assistants, with four-inch screens that have a hard enough time...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... "Individually, you agreed to evil." Judge Almiro Rodrigues, sentencing former Bosnian Serb general Radislav Krstic to 46 years in prison for his role in the killing of more than 7,000 unarmed Bosnian Muslims in 1995 "I think there's some...

Neck and Neck--But Way Behind.(Wim Duisenberg)(Junichiro Koizumi)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... Wim Duisenberg, head of the European Central Bank, and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi may be more than 5,000 miles apart as the crow flies. But in the race for a dubious distinction, "Minister for the Destruction of the World...

Better Halves.(Miguel Arroyo, wife of Philippine President)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... She soared into power in January, vowing to stamp out corruption. Now Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo faces a tough choice. Her husband, Miguel, is accused of taking bribes of $2.5 million to court his wife into influencing a major...

Gotta Love the Golden Oldies.(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... Showbiz used to ditch its starlets at the first sign of a wrinkle. But this is 2001. Madonna blows them away at 43. Sigourney Weaver, 51, just posed braless on the cover of a U.S. men's mag. And according to one TV producer, 60-year-old Faye...

Spaceballs.(space-based weapons)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... Gen. Michael Ryan, the U.S. Air Force chief of staff, last week stressed the need for space-based weapons to defend the 250 American satellites in space. But don't expect to see any X-Wing fighters. The United States and Russia have already...

Body Snatchers.(in Vietnam)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... We've all heard of kidnapping. But corpse-napping? A gang in Ho Chi Minh City goes around dressed as policemen or hospital workers, snatching the recently deceased from hospitals. Then comes the ransom note to the bereaved family. Want to give...

God's Puppet.(Doug Nearpass' DigDag)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 13, 2001... If God usually speaks through a medium, why shouldn't the rest of us? Doug Nearpass, an evangelical Christian and spare-time ventriloquist from New Jersey, uses his dummy, DigDag, to preach the Lord's word. At the sixth annual convention of...

Goat Moats.(to create firebreaks in forest fires, United States)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... Once a wildfire starts spreading like, well, wildfire, not even the best team of firefighters can stop it. But a group of Utah academics and the state's National Guard have found an efficient and cost- effective preventive measure: goats. They...

Free Nelson's Chicken!(restaurant's cartoon logo controversy, South Africa)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... South Africa was engulfed by a raging war last week. Well, more of a food fight, actually. On Tuesday Nelson's Chicken & Gravy Land in Cape Town closed because of the ire of the Nelson Mandela camp. The cartoon logo, claimed African...

Change That Tune.(national anthem lyric criticisms)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... Several Canadian women's groups want to change their national anthem. No more "true patriot love in all thy sons command," they protest. How about "all of us" or "all our hearts" instead? PERI surveys some recent calls for anthemic change...

Mail Call.
August 20, 2001... The Politics of the Cellular Divide Many readers weighed in on our July 16 story about the U.S. controversy over stem-cell research. Some were deeply troubled by the use of fetal cells for science while the majority supported federal...

Escape to the Balkans.
August 20, 2001... The beaches are back, hotter than ever. Ten years after the wars began, five years since the last shots were fired in ethnic anger, that most timid of Homo sapiens, the Western tourist, has ventured in earnest back to the Balkans and the...

Rediscovering the Old East.(resorts in former East Germany)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... Getting there is half the fun. My convertible blasts along ancient, tree-lined country lanes, through fields of rye ripening under a Curacao-blue sky. Nothing could be farther away from the metropolitan frazzle of Berlin than the wide-open...

Give Peace a Chance.(Northern Ireland peace prospects)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... Two Northern Irelands were in the news last week. Dominating the front pages: the battered peace process, forever caught in the punch-up between good news and bad. Back on the business pages, a different story unfolded. A luxury Ramada hotel...

Death By Conformity.(mental health in Japanese workers)
August 20, 2001... He blends with the salarymen who frequent the Imperial Hotel's lobby bar during cocktail hour in Tokyo. Three years ago he was one of them: a proud, confident corporate warrior who fancied himself a descendant of Japan's stoic samurai. Then the...

Tune Out, Stay In.(Japanese youth suffering social withdrawal)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... In 1997 Haruo resigned from the gas company and stayed in his bedroom for three years. "I closed the rain shutters and listened to music," he says. "I didn't know if it was day or night." Another recluse, a chatty 29-year-old, passed the...

In Search of the Gods.(Russian roots of Norse religion)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... Azov is hardly the kind of place where most people would look for adventure. Life is slow in this postcard-pretty Russian town on the delta of the muddy river Don. No one has bothered to tear down the statue of Lenin in the main square. Azov...

Prozac Pipeline.(Japanese use of unapproved drugs)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... The banner ad flashes like a neon marquee in Ginza: PROZAC... PROZAC... PROZAC. The tag line reads: "If you don't know about this you're behind the times." The Web site linked to the ad, run by a company with no obvious name or address, is one...

Not a Thought of Damnation.(Bloomsday celebration in Dublin, Ireland)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... Oh, I met with Napper Tandy and he took me by the hand. He said, How's dear ould Ireland and how does she stand? It's a question you asked over 200 years ago, Napper, but I'll tell you how Ireland stands in the year 2001. There was a...

Criminal Justice System.(Philippine facilities for juvenile offenders)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... When we enter the cell in Bilibid Prison, a group of inmates suddenly disperses. They had been hunching over something. We now see it is what seems to be a little girl dressed in scanty garments. She stands up, ashamed. Her eyebrows are drawn...

What Happened to Irish Art?(comercialization of Irish culture)(Statistical Data Included)
August 20, 2001... Rain beats down on W. B. Yeats's grave in Drumcliffe, but still the faithful come. As the guide talks of the Irish poet's death in 1939, a tall professorial type nods solemnly. Japanese tourists in dripping red Windbreakers grin gamely for the...

L.A.'s Master of Colors.(synchromism founder Stanton Macdonald-Wright)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... As the comedian Rodney Dangerfield might put it, Los Angeles don't get no respect... at least in terms of the history of modern art in America. The city has always been considered a distant second--maybe even third, after Chicago--to New York....

Movies Under the Moon.(outdoor movies)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... Toting bagfuls of snacks and drinks, a small crowd gathers on a swath of patchy grass beside New York City's East River. Seats are staked out with blankets and coolers. Conversation tapers off when a pinkish-red sunset envelops Manhattan's...

Paris is Burning.(youth crime in France)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 20, 2001... The curfew begins each night at 11, but the streets of Colombes are unquiet. Police cars prowl through the sulfurous halos of the street lights and black shadows cast by soulless concrete housing projects. Here and there, the screens of mobile...

Real-Estate Porn.(bargain housing in Croatia)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 20, 2001... First came the war correspondents, quietly buying little villas on the rugged coasts and islands of Dalmatia. They passed through the area often enough, on the way to Bosnia, Croatia or Kosovo, and watched as beachfront property values...

Finding the 'Next' Netheads.(Next: The Future Just Happened)(Brief Article)(Review)
August 20, 2001... One of the iron laws of the Information Age is that every time somebody lays down an iron law of the Information Age, it turns out to be 180 degrees off the mark. Early on, futurists predicted that the computer would lead to the paperless...

The Pressure to Hit Back.(Ariel Sharon urged to retaliate)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... For much of the meeting, hard-liners in Ariel Sharon's cabinet appeared to have the upper hand. A Palestinian suicide bombing in Jerusalem hours earlier had killed 15 people, including seven children. The hawks told Sharon that his inaction two...

Sex, Lies and Celebrities.(Jimmy Lai)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 20, 2001... For years, Jimmy Lai published a best-selling newspaper and magazine in Hong Kong. His mix of no-holds-barred criticism of Beijing and raw tabloid style continually astonished Hong Kong readers. After the Tiananmen Square massacre, he cursed...

Bolivar, Dictator or Paladin?(Hugo Chavez)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 20, 2001... After Fidel Castro, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is the most controversial head of state in Latin America. At home, a fragmented opposition accuses Chavez--re-elected in 2000 with a record 60 percent of the vote--of "Cubanizing" Venezuela: gutting...

Unplugged in America.(banning television viewing)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 20, 2001... What is this?" asked the teacher, holding up a picture of the well- known "thinking chair" from the popular preschoolers' TV show "Blue's Clues." My daughter's hand shot up. "An armchair," she declared confidently. "That's a very adult...

Cyberscope.(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... Airships to the Rescue? Last month the advanced technologies Group (ATG) in Britain launched a demonstration model of what it hopes will be the solution to burgeoning telecommunications traffic: unmanned stratospheric airships. ATG has...