Newsweek International articles from August 2007

Newsweek International archives from August 2007

Mail Call: Improve on Nature?(Letter to the editor)
August 6, 2007... Readers of our June 4 report on efforts to create life in the lab were divided over the project. "Kudos!" cheered one who urged the scientists to "speed up their endeavors." Another said, "Religion should not enter into this." But a third...

Brave New Country; Immigration and terrorism are forcing Britain to rethink its national identity.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Stryker Mcguire (With Nick Hayes in London) Once upon a time, cricket seemed the most British of sports. Leisurely games on the village green. Rain breaks. Warm beer. White men (for the most part) in fussy white uniforms. Such...

Living Large in Asia; Hong Kong and Singapore find the price of success may be just too high.
August 6, 2007... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Well-heeled expatriates in Asia's financial capitals generally have life pretty easy. But this summer, those in Hong Kong and Singapore are starting to sweat. The problem? Sizzling...

The CEO Sheik; Meet Dubai's leader: ultramodern, apolitical and open for business.(Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktum)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Afshin Molavi He wears a long, flowing thobe and a white headscarf and smells faintly of oud , an ancient Arabian perfume. With his trim beard and loose sandals, he looks much as his ancestors might have nearly two centuries ago...

Power In Numbers; How wiki software is reforming bloated bureaucracies and changing the face of communication.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Jessica Bennett The United Nations, notorious for endless deliberations, is trying a technological quick fix. Its Global Compact Office, which promotes corporate responsibility, has embraced a once fringe social technology--the...

Finding His Rhythm; Jaycee Chan, Jackie's son, is set to become a film star with 'The Drummer.' But all he wants is to play music.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Jaycee Chan was filled with apprehension. He was in a hotel room trying to film a love scene for his new movie, "The Drummer," and it wasn't going smoothly. "'Wah, with 50 people staring, how can I do the job...

Father of a Troubled Son; A debut feature film explores how Gandhi's ideals may have built a nation but fractured his own family.(Gandhi, My Father movie)(Movie review)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Jessica Au Mohandas Gandhi's son Harilal lies drunk and destitute on a dirty Mumbai street. A couple of passersby find him and cart him off to a nearby hospital. There a doctor prods him to name a family member they can contact....

Buying Culture; By luring Western institutions like the Louvre and Yale, Abu Dhabi aims to become a global arts center.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Zvika Krieger Tough negotiations are nothing new to Jean d'Haussonville. The special adviser to France's Foreign Ministry has represented Paris in major negotiations with both the EU and NATO in recent years. But nothing prepared...

Rising Gulf; An unprecedented boom is changing the region--and echoing far past its borders.(Persian Gulf)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Afshin Molavi (Molavi, a journalist and fellow at the New America Foundation, is writing a book about the Persian Gulf region.) We all know the headlines by now: the Middle East is burning, right? So it seems, as Palestinians and...

The Papa of Paparazzi; Weegee's black-and-white images of a naked New York heralded the era of sensational photography.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Amber Haq It was a cold, quiet night in New York, 1937. Weegee, the legendary photo-reporter, sat waiting outside police headquarters. Suddenly a cop car hurled up the street. The door swung open and a young, drunk pickpocket burst...

Deadly Decisions; A devastating new documentary traces the course of the Bush administration's massive missteps in Iraq.("No End in Sight")(Movie review)
August 6, 2007... Byline: David Ansen Lucidly, dramatically and without resorting to partisan rhetoric, Charles Ferguson's not-to-be-missed documentary "No End in Sight" lays out in convincing, appalling detail the disastrous missteps of the U.S. occupation...

Don't Worry, Be Happy.(views on US international relations)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Gideon Rose (Rose is managing editor of Foreign Affairs.) There is an odd disconnect these days between popular perceptions of international relations and the actual state of affairs. Americans increasingly see the world as a source...

The Japan Syndrome; Global Investor Peter Tasker.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Peter Tasker; Tasker is a founding partner of Arcus Investment, an investment company specializing in Japanese securities. Is Japan slipping back into global irrelevance? Frustrated investors may well be asking themselves that...

Walking On Air.(walking tours)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Sana Butler There's no better way to explore a place than on foot. But forget the trail mix and sleeping bags; walking tours are increasingly going upscale, adding amenities from goat-cheese tastings to bath butlers. The Wayfarers'...

Hot Spot: Karu & Y Miami.(restaurant)(Restaurant review)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Set in Miami's gritty arts district north of downtown, this ultrachic outpost offers chef Alberto Cabrera's twist on the cuisine called alta cocina, which originated in Spain. Beyond the sumptuous food, the...

Four Hours In . . . Harbin.(Harbin, China)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Adams This city in China's far northeast is best known for its winter ice festival, but its Russian flavor and relaxed pace make it a fascinating stop year round. Visit the Siberia Tiger Park just outside the city,...

Driving Like British Royalty.(Bentley Arnage)(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Tara Weingarten He may be nasty on "American Idol," but when Simon Cowell slips behind the wheel of his very well-behaved Bentley Arnage and cruises down Rodeo Drive, he might appear almost charming. That's because it's nearly...

The Maximalist.(gold cookware)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... It may not improve your bordelaise sauce, but it will look mighty good on the Aga: the German cookware company Fissler is selling a saucepan made with nearly one kilogram of solid gold and studded with more than 200 diamonds on the handles. The...

Ray-Ban Revival.(Wayfarer sunglasses)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Ashley Nash-Hahn The last time Ray-Ban Wayfarers were this popular, a young Tom Cruise in his skivvies was sporting a pair while rocking out to Bob Seger in "Risky Business." Summer 2007 has seen the comeback of the black,...

Recycling Hot Air.(waste heat)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Jessica Bennett We all know it's possible to save energy by recycling waste, but it's also possible to recycle waste energy. Physicists at the University of Utah have found a novel way to do it--by first turning waste heat into...

Perspectives.(Quotation)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: Associated Press, Reuters, Des Moines Register, New York Times, Sun, BBC "The biggest problem is that my butt hurts. Is that normal?" U.S. presidential hopeful John Edwards, after a hard...

Periscope.(news around the world)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Jack Livings, Joseph Contreras, Dan Ephron, Joshua Alston Hopped Up and Ready to Go In a race already marred by doping scandals, the Tour de France last week suffered what some commentators are calling a potentially fatal...

The Digital Play.(Synthasia)(Theater review)
August 6, 2007... Byline: B.J. Lee To watch a play is to step into a world that seems far removed from electronic bleeping and ringing--assuming, of course, that theatergoers remember to turn off their cell phones. At the Goyang Digital Theater on the...

Mail Call: America After Bush.(Letter to the editor)
August 13, 2007... Many readers of our June 11 "After Bush" cover story cheered Fareed Zakaria. "A first-rate analysis," praised one. "A refreshing appraisal," said another. Some offered their own views on America's post-Bush problems. One faulted Zakaria for his...

Beijing Reborn; With the Olympics approaching, China is re-creating its once grim capital on an awesome scale.(Cover story)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Melinda Liu (With Jonathan Ansfield in Beijing and Duncan Hewitt in Shaoxing) The transformation of Beijing for the 2008 Olympics is emerging as perhaps the most ambitious remake of any major world capital in history, short of the...

Draftsmen's Contract; On the ramparts of the Chinese design revolution.(Cover story)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan (With Jonathan Ansfield and Duncan Hewitt) Architects in China have rarely had to worry about a lack of work; a few years ago, according to a report by Rem Koolhaas and his students at Harvard, China already had...

The Great Farm Revolt; Japan's opposition leader edged out Abe by appealing to rural voters. But such us-vs.-them tactics won't help him govern.(Ichiro Ozawa, Shinzo Abe)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Akiko Kashiwagi To understand Ichiro Ozawa--whose Democratic Party of Japan thumped Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party in upper-house elections last week--it helps to consider where he kicked off his campaign: in...

The Italian Bill Clinton; Moderate and pragmatic, Walter Veltroni just might be the man who can finally turn Italy around.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Barbie Nadeau In six years as mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni has calmed a notoriously fractious city built upon a 2,500-year-old infrastructure and centuries of ineffective management. He kept the budget in line, increased tourism...

First Ladies' Club; Cecilia Sarkozy thought she would be 'bored' as First Lady. Instead, she has transformed the role.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Tracy McNicoll (With Christopher Dickey in Nice) France's scene-stealing new First Lady made a spectacular foray into geopolitics last month with her controversial role in the liberation of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian...

The Last Word: Saif al-Islam al-Qadhafi; The Politics of Blackmail.(Interview)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Christopher Dickey Saif al-Islam al-Qadhafi (his preferred spelling of a name with many variations in English) is the best-known son of Muammar Kaddafi, the Libyan ruler once called "the most dangerous man in the world." Lately,...

Why Fatah is Not the Answer; Engaging the Palestinians means engaging Hamas; Fatah has lost its credibility.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Jeremy Greenstock (Greenstock is director of the Ditchley Foundation and a former British ambassador to the United Nations.) Tony Blair's recent appointment as representative of the Middle East Quartet (made up of the United States,...

'A Double-Edged Sword'; Pakistan's banished prime minister on talks with Musharraf that could pave her way back to power.(Benazir Bhutto)(Interview)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Ron Moreau Benazir Bhutto, the exiled, two-time Pakistani prime minister, is now negotiating a political comeback with President Pervez Musharraf. Last week they reportedly met face to face in Abu Dhabi after months of back-channel...

First Prize for Weird; A bizarre substance, like 'frozen smoke,' may clean up rivers, run cell phones and power spaceships.(aerogels)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Mary Carmichael God, as the hymn goes, may have made all things bright and beautiful, but for sheer weirdness first prize should go to a man-made creation instead: aerogel. A solid that's up to 99 percent gas, it is rigid to a...

Lessons From Motown; Wall Street's loss of global market share has reached a crisis level. In 2005, 24 of the globe's 25 largest IPOs took place overseas.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Daniel Gross A world-beating made-in-the-U.S.A. industry, long insulated from foreign competition, dominates global markets and cheerily doles out stratospheric wages and benefits. As it begins to lose market share, executives...

Style: Expanding Time.(women's watches)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Sana Butler When it comes to time-pieces, size matters. Tired of squinting at dainty wristwatches, women are embracing bigger models that make a bold statement and are easier to read. Corum's hand-painted limited-edition...

Four Hours In Bogota.(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Natalia Moreno The Colombian capital offers visitors unexpectedly vibrant music, history, culture and flavors. Don't miss out. VISIT the Museo del Oro, with more than 35,000 gold artifacts--ranging from fish hooks to masks...

Fitness: Designed to Climb.(Illoiha fitness club rock-climbing wall)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Katie Connolly The Omotesando district in Tokyo is better known for catwalk fashions and luxury design than rugged adventure sports. But the neighborhood's hip Illoiha fitness club somehow manages to combine the two in its new...

The Maximalist.(luxury items)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Talk about sweet dreams. This fall the Italian company Frette will launch Helena, a limited-edition set of woven silk sheets named after Helen of Troy. There'll be no eating in this bed; the linens go for $6,950, with only 99 available sets.

Protecting a Luxury Label's Good Name.(Savile Row suits and Swiss watches)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Nick Foulkes The French are notoriously hot on protectionism, and they do it so well: the system of appellations d'origine controlees, originally put in place during the 1930s to eradicate wine fraud, is the model for similar...

Perspectives.(Quotation)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Quotation sources: Reuters, The Guardian, Times Of London, New York Times, Reuters "The first thing that came to my mind was, 'I'm pretty lucky'." Sixty-eight-year-old Don Frick , who was enjoying a festival in Pennsylvania on...

Venezuela: Testing a Blood Diamonds Ban.(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Phil Gunson Venezuela's Hugo ChAvez has earned a bad reputation of late, at least in some quarters. Now he's accused of thumbing his nose at another international norm: the ban on trading "conflict diamonds." Only a minor gems...

Investment: Smart Money.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Adam B. Kushner You can do better by doing good, say the crunchy green consultants. Much better, say the tough guys at Goldman Sachs. The authors of a new study from the investment bank found that socially responsible companies...

By the Numbers.(statistics)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Being a Christian missionary has long been hazardous work. But the recent kidnapping of 23 and killing of two South Koreans at the hands of the Taliban highlights how dangerous the calling remains. 126 The number of Christian missionaries...

Health: Jiffy Boobs.(one-hour breast augmentation)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Susanna Schrobsdorff The headlines were irresistible: LUNCH-BREAK BOOB JOBS HEADED TO EUROPE. According to some news outlets that carried the story, doctors would be using women's own belly fat for a one-hour breast-augmentation...

The Debunker.(positive side of sun exponsure )(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Patrick Falby We slather kids with sunscreen, force them into hats and hover over them with umbrellas. And despite all that, the more we learn about cancer-causing UV rays, the more we realize how vulnerable our children are. But...

Books: Oddball Epic.(Apollo's Song)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Malcolm Jones Manga is such a mystery. We all sort of know about the Japanese comic books with the Betty Boop-ish kids with the big eyes. But there's manga, and then there's Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka, who died in 1989, more or less...

Reality Check.(pedophilia)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Psychologists and law enforcement have long wondered if there's a correlation between men who download child porn and those who actually molest children. Now they have the answer--and it isn't pretty. In an unpublished government prison study,...

Social Networking And Class Warfare.(Facebook versus MySpace websites)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Steven Levy For young people, the burning question of our time is "Facebook or MySpace?" Though there's considerable overlap between the two big social-networking services, only one usually becomes the center of a teen's...

Trading Spaces.(map connecting trade between countries)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Katie Connolly GDP is the standard yardstick for evaluating a country's economy, but it's a rough measure, especially for poor countries--it doesn't take into account the types of products a country makes and how they affect growth...

Mail Call: A Long, Sad Goodbye.(Letter to the editor)
August 20, 2007... Readers of our June 18 report on caregiving for Alzheimer's patients offered unstinting praise. Cheered one, "Wonderful, much needed articles!" Added another, "Your story is the best conversation starter." The rest shared their experiences of...

How To Beat Terror; Asian states have adopted new tactics in the war on terror. And suddenly they're winning the fight.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Joe Cochrane, Criselda Yabes and Marites D. Vitug At first, the image looked grimly familiar: two masked men brandishing assault rifles at a cowering prisoner. But the video, shown on Indonesian TV in June, had a twist: it brought...

Things Fall Apart; Thailand's Muslim insurgency is spinning out of control.
August 20, 2007... Byline: George Wehrfritz (With Am Kumpera in Narathiwat) Police with guns check vehicles at the gate, and inside the perimeter a siege mentality prevails. Yet this is no army camp: it's a school in the Thai village of Tak Bai. Since...

Very Liquid Assets; Water crises are both a dark threat to the world and an increasingly bright investment opportunity.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno The new oil may be water. According to Global Water Intelligence, a U.K. consultancy, by December total assets under management in water funds could hit a record $20 billion this year, a 53 percent increase from...

Back To the U.S.S.R. By pushing a patriotic view of history and the humanities, the Kremlin is reshaping the Russian mind.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Owen Matthews (With Anna Nemtsova in Moscow) In Russia, the ghosts of the past refuse to die. This month, several hundred mourners gathered in the Moscow suburb of Butovo at a mass grave of 20,000 victims of Joseph Stalin's purges....

The Still Life of Castro; As a colony, a protectorate and even now, Cuba is the odd Latin out.(Fidel Castro)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Jorge G. Castaneda On July 26, Cuba marked the end of the country's first year since 1959 without Fidel Castro fully in power and in control. His first absence on Revolution Day since that year has led to endless speculation about...

Children Of War.(in Rwanda)(Personal account)(Photograph)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Torgovnik It's been more than a decade now since the Rwandan genocide. The country is rebuilding. But one generation stands apart. These children, thought to number some 20,000, are the sweet crop borne of a bitter...

A Kinder, Gentler Dam; New construction in one of Asia's poorest countries raises the ethical bar for the world's megaprojects.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Kent Dam projects in poor countries tend to wreak havoc on the communities they displace. But the $1.4 billion Nam Theun 2 dam in central Laos is a different story. Piu, a smallholder in her 30s, moved in May to a village...

Blame It on Biofuels; Cornflake makers and socialists alike are pointing to green fuel for high food prices. Are they right?
August 20, 2007... Byline: Barrett Sheridan High food prices always hit the poor hardest, and these days there is plenty of bad news. Corn prices are nearly $4 a bushel, almost double their 2005 level. In Mexico, for instance, that translates into a 50...

Locked And Loaded; Wall Street is hot on weapons makers as developing nations bolster their defenses.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Stephen Glain It may be too soon to talk about a global arms race, but the shopping spree is on. Nations of the world are buying weapons at the fastest pace since the Soviet Union collapsed 16 years ago. In 2005, according to the...

Out Painting The Town; Living in a rapidly changing city is a major, if unintentional, theme of the Singapore Art Show.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop All cities change, but Singapore seems to change a little faster than most. From small fishing village to colonial outpost to cosmopolitan metropolis, the city-state keeps reinventing itself, sometimes at...

Dressed For Success; Artist Julian Schnabel is having such a spectacular year, he can wear purple pajamas if he wants to.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Michael Levitin When you're an artist as versatile and productive as Julian Schnabel, you can wear what you want to an opening--even purple pajamas, as he did for the recent premiere of his 25-year retrospective in San SebastiAn,...

Bringing the War Home; British soldiers construct and curate a new exhibit in London about their experiences in Afghanistan.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Ginanne Brownell With dust flying everywhere, Lt. Russell Archer orders a half-dozen soldiers to drop their sandbags and get to work. The men, engineers from Britain's 16th Air Assault Brigade, are building protected bunkers, a...

World's Riskiest Market; Investors are growing more cautious, but an intrepid few still bet on North Korea.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Rana Foroohar (With B. J. Lee in Seoul, Akiko Kashiwagi in Tokyo and Barrett Sheridan in New York) Emerging markets have taken a hit over the past couple of weeks, as global market wobbles have prompted a flight from risk. So it's...

No Longer So Special; Britain's new prime minister has signaled the start of a different kind of relationship with the United States.(Prime Minister Gordon Brown)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Stryker Mcguire Ever since Tony Blair left office, a single question has dominated transatlantic discourse: will a rift open in the "special relationship" between Britain and the United States? Two months into the new government of...

Retraining Terrorists; A bold new program in Iraq uses Islam to teach insurgents the error of their murderous ways.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh Wiry and lean, Abdullah looks on with a glassy stare as the instructor explains the subject for the day: revenge. The case study is the first gulf war, and the instructor lists religious and moral reasons why it...

Don't Fear the Credit Crunch.(residential real estate industry in crisis)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Mohamed A. El-Erian (El-Erian is the president and CEO of Harvard Management Company and a member of the faculty of Harvard Business School.) When the U.S. subprime-housing crisis first made the front pages of the financial press a...

The Race Is On.(global competition in providing education)(Cover story)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat It looks like a rock video. as techno music pounds in the background, attractive young Asians break-dance, play guitar and pump their fists in the air. Yet this is no dance track. It's an ad: part of the U.S....

It's Not Easy Being English; Britain no longer dominates Anglophone education. Students want more, and the old empire is happy to give it to them.(Cover story)
August 20, 2007... Byline: William Underhill The welcome begins with a courtesy car at the airport. To follow: a week of activities, from a talk with the vice chancellor to an introduction to British folk dancing. For the foreign student arriving at...

U. of Europe?(creation of Europe-wide educational standards)(Cover story)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Silvia Spring The partisans of a united Europe like to hail its most famous successes, like the creation of a central bank, a single currency and a common market. For some reason, though, an achievement that is perhaps no less...

The Mythical Million.(lack of engineering and technical graduates in China and India)(Cover story)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Melinda Liu and Sudip Mazumdar Earlier this year, students would show up for class each day at the Jalpaiguri Engineering College in West Bengal--and find no teachers. The Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Information...

Doing It Themselves.(private schools in developing countries)(Cover story)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Jason Overdorf In India, education is supposed to be free and universal through age 14. In fact, it often doesn't work out that way. Consider Dhiraj Sharma, the 10-year-old son of a bicycle rickshaw driver in Dehli, who was forced...

Free Marketeers.(rise of private universities in developing countries)(Cover story)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Mac Margolis Some of the 20th century's greatest scholars got their start at India's venerable state universities. But if Anil Agarwal has his way, those august institutions will soon get a run for their money. The 53-year-old...

An Arab Opening.(teaching teenagers to be entrepreneurs by Injaz al-Arab)(Cover story)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Stefan Theil (With Mandi Fahmy and Gameela Ismail in Cairo and Zvika Krieger in Beirut. Theil, NEWSWEEK's European economics editor, is a fellow at the German Marshall Fund.) Mohamad Hodeib speaks passionately about global...

Iraq's Endangered Schools; Teaching has become a dangerous, often fatal, occupation in war-torn Iraq, where higher education is the latest casualty.(Cover story)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Zvika Krieger Saad Jawad does not like to take chances. The University of Baghdad professor goes to the campus only once or twice a week, varying the days to throw off any would-be killers. He does most of his work at home on the...

Hands-On Study.(vocational education in China)(Cover story)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Duncan Hewitt When Pan Jianfeng, a Shanghai ad consultant, was recently asked to recommend young local designers to an international agency, he sent three candidates with years of work experience. But the company decided they...

English for Everyone.(Asians' preoccupation with learning the English language)(Cover story)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Adams and Max Hirsch (With Nick Hayes in London) China's recent rise has brought with it a new conventional wisdom: that everyone must learn Mandarin. But no one's told South Korea yet. Though Chinese is increasingly...

Over a Billion Served.(students studying Mandarin)(Cover story)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Stephen Noerper (Noerper is an international-relations specialist and Asia scholar and the president of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral Academy.) This past academic year, 146 New York City kids 4 to 14 dutifully attended Rosalyn Chao's...

Innovation Isn't Enough.(state of universities in the United States )(Cover story)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Michael M. Crow (Crow is president of Arizona State University.) The modern university is the ideal environment for the creation and transfer of knowledge that drives national competitiveness in an increasingly global era. Its most...

America, Still on Top.(U.S. higher education)(Cover story)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Vartan Gregorian (Gregorian is the president of Carnegie Corporation of New York.) One of the great strengths of U.S. higher education is that it grew by informal design. Following the 1862 Morrill Act, which gave federal land to...

Don't Sniff at Money.(Education; Royals)(Correction notice)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Stefan Theil ***** Correction: In our interview with Jordan's Queen Rania ("Don't Sniff at Money," Aug. 20-27), we mistakenly referred to Her Majesty as "Princess." NEWSWEEK REGRETS the error. ***** Princess Rania...

Summer Sparkles.(jewelry)(Buyers guide)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Lorna Shaddick The glittering water, pale sand and clear skies of a summertime beach vacation will soon be just memories, but there's a way to keep them alive until next year: the aquamarine, coral pink, turquoise and deep blue...

Perfect Weekend: Buenos Aires.(Brief article)
August 20, 2007... Make the most of a weak peso as the Good Life revels in Latin America's hottest spot. SHOP The Recoleta district has great boutiques, such as Humawaca (calle Posadas 1380, tel. 011 54 11 4811 5995), and La Dolfina (Avenida Alvear 1315,...

Wakiya, New York City.(Restaurant review)(Brief article)
August 20, 2007... Byline: David Bardeen Tucked into a corner of Ian Schrager's chic Gramercy Park Hotel, Wakiya offers a sumptuous take on regional Chinese cuisine from Shanghai, Sichuan, Guangzhou and Beijing. Ambience: The scent of smoldering oolong...

South Island Shelter.(house in Queenstown, New Zealand)(Brief article)
August 20, 2007... Nestled on 100 acres in Queenstown, New Zealand, this industrial-style three-bedroom, three-bath home is surrounded by landscaped gardens and unparalleled views of the Remarkables mountain range ($5.9 million; brownssothebysrealty.com ).