Newsweek International articles from February 2006

Newsweek International archives from February 2006

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
February 6, 2006... Terror's New Face Readers of our Dec. 12 cover story were outraged by the "murderous" acts of female terrorists. "The Palestinian Authority incites suicide bombers--women and children--and glamorizes them by giving them hero status," said...

Another Nuclear Dawn; Nuclear power died in the last century, but things have changed since then. world leaders are now taking a second look at the atom.
February 6, 2006... Byline: Fred Guterl The story of nuclear power seems to have begun and ended in the 20th century. First came the fireworks--two atom bombs that ended a world war and announced vast stores of energy in the fine structure of the atom. Then...

India's Nukes: A Deal With 'Difficulties'.
February 6, 2006... When U.S. President George W. Bush signed an accord with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to help India develop its civilian nuclear-power industry last July, he opened a can of worms. India desperately needs more energy, and the country is...

The Waste Problem; Where Will We All Be In 100,000 Years?
February 6, 2006... ***** CORRECTION: Clarification: Due to a miscommunication, "the Waste Problem" by Arjun Makhijani (Feb. 6) contained some language that the author didn't intend. An updated version can be found at msnbc.msn.com/id/11080907/site/NEWSWEEK....

We Don't Need More Power; For each dollar of economic output, China wastes 11 times more energy than Japan.
February 6, 2006... Byline: Douglas Ogden (OGDEN is director of the China Sustainable Energy Program in Beijing and San Francisco (www.efchina.org).) The old adage "to a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" sums up how most countries deal with energy...

The Polls: What the Palestinians Really Voted For; A West Bank pollster finds more moderate trends underlying the Hamas victory.(Cover Story)
February 6, 2006... Byline: Khalil Shikaki (Shikaki is director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.) The results of last week's Palestinian elections certainly were a shock to the political system. While everyone expected Hamas to do...

OPEN LETTER: 'Just Be Fair With Us"; What does Hamas want? One of the movement's leaders claims they are eager to engage with the West, if not Israel.(Cover Story)
February 6, 2006... Byline: Muhammad Abu Tir (ABU TIR is a former militant who ranked No. 2 on the Hamas list of candidates in last week's elections.) My message to the West--to America, to Europe, to everybody--is this: Hamas wants peace. We hate bloodshed...

China Leaps Forward; The people's republic is embarking on the world's biggest nuclear building spree.
February 6, 2006... Byline: SARAH SCHAFER (With Duncan Hewitt in Zhejiang) American businessman Edwin deSteiguer Snead went to China seeking a future for nuclear energy. He's pretty sure he found it. On a recent bitterly cold day, Snead took a ride out to a...

A Change in Climate; Political worries are driving a nuclear rethink in the west.
February 6, 2006... Byline: William Underhill (With Kasia Kruszkowska) Martin Landtman is thinking big. As project director of Finland's next nuclear-power station, he's responsible for his country's largest-ever industrial investment. Over the next four...

A Chill in the Moscow Air; Taking a cue from their boss, the Russian secret service is acting more and more like the old KGB.
February 6, 2006... Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova The scandal broke with all the trappings of a cold-war espionage story--British spies as the villains, the eagle-eyed Russian secret service as the heroes. Late last fall the FSB, the successor agency...

The Call's On the House; The era of the free Internet phone is advancing fast, led by new entrants like Tesco, precipitating a sharp drop in the stocks of big telecoms.
February 6, 2006... Byline: Rana Foroohar (With Emily Flynn Vencat in London) Tesco is the closest thing that Europe has to Wal-Mart. The U.K.'s leading food and household-goods retailer sells everything from bananas to banking services, all at low prices. Two...

Revenge of the Doves; Pacifists stake out their ground in the race to take over as prime minister from Junichiro Koizumi.
February 6, 2006... Byline: Christian Caryl In a conference room across the street from the imposing Diet building, a Tokyo history professor in a black sweater is holding forth on the role of war memorials. Listening to him is a respectful audience of...

Can Rocca Rev up Torino? The 2006 Winter Olympics are right around the corner but so far, the only passion for the Games is coming from protesters. Even Italy's new hometown hero can't spark excitement the way La Bomba did.
February 6, 2006... Byline: Barbie Nadeau A new sport has taken hold in Italy ahead of the Winter Olympics, which are set to kick off in Torino on Feb. 10. Dubbed "block the torch" by locals, it pits Italy's ardent anarchists against Olympic organizers trying...

Medal Rivalry; The world's best competitors show each other respect as well as guts and grit. Some matchups you don't want to miss:.(Winter Olympics)
February 6, 2006... Byline: Mark Starr, Devin Gordon, Brett Begun and Tracy McNicoll WOMEN'S FIGURE SKATING IRINA SLUTSKAYA VS. SASHA COHEN Though no competitor older than 16 has won the Olympic ladies' figure-skating crown since 1992, Russia's Irina...

The Winter Blues; As a stand-alone, the Winter Games can't sustain a buzz. They certainly can't match the passions brewing for football's world cup.
February 6, 2006... Byline: Mark Starr My favorite Olympics, the one where the sizzle truly lived up to the sell, was the 2000 Games in Sydney. From its opening splash, with triathletes braving shark-infested waters in the shadow of the incandescent Opera...

Global Investor: The Hollowing Ring of Davos.(world economic forum )
February 6, 2006... Byline: Stephen Roach (ROACH is chief economist and director of global economic analysis at Morgan Stanley.) The world economic forum in Davos is the cradle of the modern globalization paradigm: the "win-win" proposition that the...

The Good Life: Feb. 6, 2006 Issue.
February 6, 2006... Byline: Jenny Hontz (Alexandra A. Seno Jaime Cunningham Emily Flynn Vencat) Pools: Diving In High Style By Emily Flynn Vencat Indoor pools are making a splash. Architects are increasingly incorporating them into everything from...

Perspectives.
February 6, 2006... "You can't have one foot in terror and the other in politics." U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on U.S. dealing with Hamas "Where Is the Terrorist Today?" The theme song for policemen in Iraq, who blast it from car speakers...

Periscope.
February 6, 2006... Byline: Scott Johnson, Rod Nordland and Ranya Kadri (Joe Cochrane Eric Pape Keith Naughton Rana Foroohar Elise Soukup T. Trent Gegax) Exclusive: Talking to Terrorists U.S. officials in Iraq are now holding face-to-face talks with...

It's Bode Time.(Bode Miller)
February 6, 2006... Byline: Devin Gordon Bode Miller, the most gifted American skier in decades, talks the same way he races: fast, loose and seemingly out of control. He has a smirking disrespect for the media, a stance he'll repeat until your recorder runs...

The Mobile Phone Rings: You're Fired! Most young Europeans would choose SMS over their phone service, if they had to pick one.(short messaging service)
February 6, 2006... Byline: Eric Pape Are you afraid of storms, bursting levees and killer tsunamis? Hold on to your cell phone--it may soon be warning you of impending catastrophe. Starting on Feb. 1, cell-phone owners in flood-prone regions of the...

Blogging for Freedom.(Brief Article)
February 6, 2006... Byline: Jesse Ellison In two years, 30 bloggers have been arrested, interrogated, tortured or imprisoned for speaking out against repressive regimes, according to Anoniblog, a new Web site for bloggers in repressive countries. The site...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
February 13, 2006... Bush in the Bubble Our Dec. 19 cover story on Bush's world led readers to lash out at the president's isolation. "Is he a king?" asked one. Another hated "his play-by-my-rules philosophy"; a third loathed his "imperialism." The...

A 'Single' Church; Working with a 'breakthrough' bishop, the Vatican is drawing closer to Beijing.
February 13, 2006... Byline: Melinda Liu and Duncan Hewitt (With Jonathan Adams in Taipei) Despite a serious illness two years ago, Aloysius Jin seems in fine form. He switches continuously between French and English, and cracks a joke about Prince Charles's...

Europe Is a House Divided; The European Union has become a club of slow-growth laggard economies that are home to dynamic companies. Therein lies the seeds of a growing split between political leaders and the business elite, with serious implications for the future not just of Europe, but of globalization itself.
February 13, 2006... Byline: Rana Foroohar AND Stefan Theil (With Ginny Power in Paris) A strange divide is growing in Europe. Political and business elites are increasingly at odds with each other. Corporate titans are celebrating the fruits of record profits,...

Who's That Girl? Could a rising star of the French Socialist Party become the first woman president of France?
February 13, 2006... Byline: Eric Pape French politics has always been a manly world, no place more so than the Elysee Palace. Almost forever, it seems, France's presidents have been cut from similar cloth, distinguished by a shared hauteur if not grandeur,...

David's Big Gambit; Cameron's rejuvenated Conservatives play for the political center. A smart strategy--as long as it works.
February 13, 2006... Byline: Stryker Mcguire (With Kasia Gruszkowska) The "Alice in Wonderland" world of British politics gets curiouser and curiouser. Witness just a few events from last week. Despite a comfortable majority in Parliament, Prime Minister Tony...

Russian Nukes Redux; Looking to recapture lost glory, Moscow is building a new nuclear warhead designed to evade U.S. defenses.
February 13, 2006... Byline: Owen Matthews Is energy the nuclear weapon of the 21st century? In recent months, Russia has shown that control of gas supplies to its neighbors can be a potent political tool. But when Vladimir Putin was asked exactly that...

A Kung Fu Swan Song; With his new film, 'Fearless,' Jet Li achieves the kind of success increasingly elusive for martial-arts stars.
February 13, 2006... Byline: Andrew Huang Halfway through Jet Li's new film, "Fearless," a biopic about China's 19th-century kung fu master Huo Yuanjia, Huo is shocked when he returns home to the city of Tianjin and finds the streets filled with Westerners...

O, SILVIO! Farce or savvy politics, it's the Berlusconi show.
February 13, 2006... Byline: Barbie Nadeau I promise! From now on, two months of absolute sexual abstinence!" Like an athlete saving himself for the big game, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi made the ultimate campaign promise recently by vowing...

Turning Un-Japanese; To someone who has lived for long periods of time in the West, there is nothing particularly challenging about Japan, not anymore.
February 13, 2006... Byline: Christian Caryl Donald Richie has been living in Japan for half a century. The American writer, translator and film scholar has spent most of that time explaining Japan to the English-speaking world. But lately he's found himself,...

The Year Of the Dog Spa; Asians used to eat dogs. Now they pamper them.
February 13, 2006... Byline: George Wehrfritz (With Jonathan Adams in Taipei, Lorien Holland in Kuala Lumpur and Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop in Singapore) Sara's secret passion is a 1-year-old pooch named Pugster. The twentysomething Malaysian businesswoman, who...

Holy War; The cartoon brouhaha really illustrates the divisions within the Muslim community, not with the West.(Cover Story)
February 13, 2006... Byline: Olivier Roy (ROY, the author of 'Globalized Islam,' is a professor at the School for Advanced Studies of the Social Sciences in Paris) The worldwide uproar over the cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, printed in a Danish...

Igniting More Than Debate.
February 13, 2006... Byline: Charles Ferro Back in September 2005, the liberal Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published several cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad--at least one as a terrorist--although any physical representation of the prophet is...

Sports and Spa Lovers, Unite.
February 13, 2006... Byline: Tara Pepper (Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Klara Wyrzykowska Emily Flynn Vencat Sana Butler) Deciding where to spend valuable vacation time can be a fraught issue for couples who have different ideas about how to unwind. "I like to chill...

Perspectives.
February 13, 2006... Byline: QUOTATION SOURCES, TOP TO BOTTOM: REUTERS, NEW YORK TIMES, REUTERS, AP, UPI, AP (2) "Where are the corpses? Where are they taking the survivors?" Gedir Mohammed, whose relative was among nearly 1,500 people onboard an...

Periscope.
February 13, 2006... Byline: Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai (Christian Caryl Mark Hosenball Ginanne Brownell Mike Elkin Tracy McNicoll, Mark Starr, Katka Krosnar and Stefan Theil Jessica Bennett Elise Soukup) Afghanistan: Guerrillas on Film Taking a cue...

If Martha Stewart Were a Geek...
February 13, 2006... Byline: Steven Levy Ok, you've all got DVD players now. But before pondering the next step--Blu-ray? HD DVD? Downloaded movies?--give a thought to that old VHS player in the garage. The flashing "12:00" still pops up when you plug it in,...

The Cutest New Cops.(Brief Article)
February 13, 2006... Byline: Jesse Ellison China's Internet police force has come up with a new way to control Web surfers: adorable cartoon police officers that stand watch at the side of Shenzhen Web sites and bulletin boards--constant reminders that Big...

Al-Jazeera Unmasked; The Arabic satellite network is surprisingly balanced.
February 20, 2006... Byline: John R. Bradley (BRADLEY is the author of "Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis.") The Egyptian-American scholar Mamoun Fandy once famously wrote that there are no real journalists in the Arab world, and anyone who...

The Lure of the Gothic; A new Tate Britain exhibit demonstrates why grotesque images are still so effective in portraying our hidden demons.
February 20, 2006... Byline: Tara Pepper The enlightenment that swept aside medieval Europe's dusty faith and folklore in favor of bright modernity and reason had an unintended side effect: it gave rise to Gothic art and literature, and its macabre esthetic of...

The Last Word: Praful Patel; Is India Finally Taking Off?
February 20, 2006... Byline: Ron Moreau One of the most obvious differences between Asia's two giants, China and India, has long been the state of their infrastructure. Whereas Beijing has laid thousands of kilometers of gleaming road and spread futuristic...

The Good Life, Feb. 20, 2006 issue.
February 20, 2006... Byline: Brad Stone and Paul Tolme and Kasia Gruszkowska (Paul Tolme Kasia Gruszkowska) Technology: Free Calls Get Pretty The 75 million users of Internet telephone service Skype can finally unplug their headsets. Skype is the...

International Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
February 20, 2006... Afghanistan's Drug Trade The sources cited in "a harvest of Treachery" (Jan. 9) are biased and unreliable and therefore lack credibility. They are former failed government officials with personal agendas, and their political motivations...

The East Looks Ok; Worries about one set of immigrants--Muslims--are starting to ease resistance to those from New Europe.
February 20, 2006... Byline: William Underhill (With Stefan Theil in Berlin and Eric Pape in Paris) For Vladimir Spidla, it was sweet vindication. Ever since the European Union took in 10 new members some 20 months ago, he has been preaching the merits of open...

Middle East: Presenting a New Face to the World; Hamas will find ending riots easier than taking power.
February 20, 2006... Byline: Kevin Peraino Mahmoud Zahar has little doubt about who should control the Palestinian Authority. "People voted for us," the Hamas cofounder told NEWSWEEK recently at his Gaza City home, a yellow and brown-flecked structure that...

Lost, Without a Trace; Talks on normalizing relations with Japan are spotlighting just how vast Pyongyang's kidnap scheme was.
February 20, 2006... Byline: Hideko Takayama and Evan Thomas (With Joe Cochrane in Bangkok) The 13-year-old girl was on her way home from badminton practice when she disappeared. Every night for five years, her mother kept the porch light on, hoping against...

Will Korea Break Up Samsung? As its chairman returns home to apologize for "the stir" of scandals dogging his company, he faces a shockingly real threat to the massive family empire.
February 20, 2006... Byline: George Wehrfritz and B. J. Lee It was hardly a triumphant homecoming for the leading corporate chieftain of Korea Inc. Sitting in a wheelchair with his right knee in a cast, Samsung chairman Lee Kun Hee ended a five-month absence on...

Knee Repair; New ways of fixing the most troublesome joint.(Cover Story)
February 20, 2006... Byline: Daren Briscoe Knees are the bane of all athletes, but they're particularly nettlesome to aging amateurs, whose joints have endured years of pounding. Fortunately, some of the technology inspired by doctors who treat professional...

Athletic Aging; As the world's fitness generation grows older, it is changing the way doctors and equipment makers look at exercise.(Cover Story)
February 20, 2006... Byline: Mac Margolis (With Emily Flynn Vencat in London and Kay Itoi in Japan) Not so long ago, getting in shape was pretty straightforward. Throw on some sweat pants and a pair of sneakers or climb into a swimsuit and off you went,...

Soccer on the Screen; From documentaries to comedies, the game dominates entries at this year's Berlin Film Festival.
February 20, 2006... Byline: Michael Levitin After the United States stunned England with a 1-0 victory at the 1950 World Cup, soccer mysteriously died in America. Baseball, football and basketball dominated the postwar years; it wasn't until the North...

Pointing the Finger; Europe has apologized. But attitudes are hardening toward radical groups and governments in the Middle East.
February 20, 2006... Byline: Christopher Dickey When Hamas called for the Muslim world to calm down last week, European officials hoped they'd turned a corner. They'd been looking frantically for a way out of the clash of civilizations sparked by the...

Tales From The War; A correspondent's wrenching memoir.(The Place at the End of the World)(Book Review)
February 20, 2006... Byline: Ginanne Brownell Being a war correspondent is a privilege and a burden. The privilege comes from having firsthand access to the events that shape history. But it can also be a painful responsibility to trespass through the most...

Time to Step Up to the Plate.(immigration law)
February 20, 2006... Byline: Jorge G. Castaneda (Castaneda, a former foreign minister of Mexico, is now Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American Studies at New York University) Later this month the U.S. Senate is likely to begin one of its...

Mountains To Climb; Last week's vote proceeded peacefully. But will Haiti's fortunes finally change?(Brief Article)
February 20, 2006... Byline: Malcolm Beith The Creole proverb warns: "deye mon, gen mon"--beyond mountains, more mountains. Under the eye of U.N. peacekeepers, Haitians voted for a new president and Parliament last Tuesday. Early results gave 63-year-old...

Cold War, Hot Stocks; Rumsfeld's Pentagon modernization campaign has stalled. That's a boon to the makers of old-style heavy weapons.(Donald Rumsfeld)
February 20, 2006... Byline: Stephen Glain The Pentagon's spending plans were no secret on Wall Street. Share prices of top U.S. defense contractors began soaring months ago, in anticipation of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review, which was released last...

The Last Word: Sergei Kiriyenko; How to Handle Iran's Nukes.
February 20, 2006... Byline: Owen Matthews Sergei Kiriyenko may hold the key to re-solving the Iranian nuclear crisis. The former Russian prime minister and the head of RosAtom, the Russian nuclear agency, will meet a delegation from Tehran this week to...

Still Going Strong; Jack LaLanne is a living testament to the enduring benefits of diet and exercise.(Cover Story)
February 20, 2006... Byline: Peg Tyre Decades before Jane Fonda felt the burn and Suzanne Somers thinned her thighs, Jack LaLanne was teaching viewers how to stay trim. At every stage of his 70-year career--first as a competitive body-builder and gym owner,...

Small Changes, Big Benefits; You don't have to break a sweat to improve your health, you just need to get moving.(Cover Story)
February 20, 2006... Byline: Harvey B. Simon, M.D. (SIMON is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. His new book, "The No Sweat Exercise Plan: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, and Live Longer" (McGraw-Hill), was published last month. The CME data...

Perspectives.
February 20, 2006... Byline: QUOTATION SOURCES, TOP TO BOTTOM: UPI, REUTERS, CBS NEWS, GUARDIAN, CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORP., NEWSDAY, LONDON INDEPENDENT "Let's move on." U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, urging Muslims to accept an apology from the...

International Periscope.
February 20, 2006... Byline: Michael Hirsh, Michael Isikoff, Zoran Cirjakovic, Rod Nordland, Barbie Nadeau, Michael Hastings, Devin Gordon, Stefan Theil, Hilary Shenfeld and Nicki Gostin Yemen: Orchestrated Escape? Earlier this month a group of 23...

More Watchful Eyes On the Continent.(video surveillance)
February 20, 2006... Byline: Eric Pape Last year French drivers killed fewer than 5,000 people on the roads for the first time in decades. Credit goes largely to the 1,000 automated radar cameras planted on the nation's highways since 2003, which experts...

Making Sure the Shoe Fits.(Brief Article)
February 20, 2006... Byline: Benjamin Sutherland (Benjamin Sutherland) Tired of trying on a dozen shoes in search of the one pair that truly fits? inescop, an industry consortium in Alicante, Spain, has built a device that uses lasers and cameras to produce a...

Mail Call; Issue Dated Feb. 27, 2006.(Letter to the Editor)
February 27, 2006... Liberty vs. Security? Readers of our Jan. 9 cover story were alarmed by the Bush administration's wiretaps. "The president is eroding civil rights," charged one. Echoed another, "He is defined by untrammeled power." Spying in America...

Myth and Reality; Forget all the talk of equal opportunity. European women can have a job--but not a career.(Cover Story)
February 27, 2006... Byline: Rana Foroohar (With Emily Flynn Vencat in London and Stefan Theil in Berlin) Here's a pop quiz on gender equality. In which part of the world are women most likely to reach the highest rungs of power? Choice A offers new moms 12...

Fatherhood: Trying to Do It All; As they get more involved, dads may face even more challenges than women in balancing work and family.(Cover Story)
February 27, 2006... Byline: Tara Pepper Women aren't the only ones having a rough go of it in Europe. Men, these days, are embracing fatherhood with the round-the-clock involvement their partners have always dreamed of-- changing diapers, handling night...

The Five-Year Itch; Though it only took off in 2001, online dating is already struggling to keep the magic alive.
February 27, 2006... Byline: Ginanne Brownell (With Jaime Cunningham in New York and Florence Villeminot in Paris) Not so long ago, online dating seemed to offer lonely-hearts new hope that Mr. or Ms. Right was within point-and-click range. Barbara Whitehead,...

Britain: Now for 'Project Gordon'; The labour party's heir apparent goes live. Almost live, at any rate.
February 27, 2006... Byline: Stryker Mcguire Was it the frozen smile? the four-page spread in London's Daily Mirror was supposed to cast Gordon Brown as the cozily comfortable successor to Tony Blair. Unfortunately, Britain's redoubtable chancellor of the...

Selling to the Neighbors; While trade within other regions boomed in the postwar era, it stalled in the Middle East. No longer.
February 27, 2006... Byline: Stephen Glain After a century-long estrangement, some Arab economies are rediscovering a lucrative asset: each other. Take Egypt, where the value of trade with its Arab partners rose by 60 percent last year--fueled by the falling...

Blogger Nation; A proliferation of voices is slowly dismantling the status quo in China.
February 27, 2006... Byline: --BY SARAH SCHAFER (With Duncan Hewitt in Shanghai) Wang Xiaofenghails from northeastern China, a region known for its freezing winters and for its theater, in which performers improvise banter to musical accompaniment. Wang grew up...

Paris on My Mind; A new show at London's National Gallery traces how America's artists fell in love with the French capital.(Americans in Paris 1860-1900)
February 27, 2006... Byline: Tara Pepper Americans from Cole Porter to Edgar Allan Poe have long harbored a passion for Paris. But visual artists forged the trail, arriving in such numbers after the American Civil War ended in 1865 that Henry James would write...

Past as Prologue; Russia: Moscow presents itself as the new 'middleman' in the Middle East. But its role may actually be that of spoiler.
February 27, 2006... Byline: Owen Matthews (With Anna Nemtsova in Moscow) Once, not so long ago, Europe saw itself as the Middle East's honest broker, poised between a hard-line United States and an equally intransigent Muslim world. At the same time Russia,...

Opinion: Censorship Inc. If they're not careful, Western tech companies could break up the Web.
February 27, 2006... Byline: Rebecca Mackinnon and John Palfrey (Rebecca Mackinnon is a fellow and John Palfrey is clinical professor of law and executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.) Executives of some of...

'Subtropical' Paradise; A Latin singer with an Anglo name crosses borders.
February 27, 2006... Byline: Brian Byrnes Alaskans invariably have to venture far and wide to seek fame and fortune beyond the Great White North. In Kevin Johansen's case, he traveled nearly as far south as possible to make his musical dreams come true. The...

Global Investor: Yes, the Market Is Overvalued.
February 27, 2006... Byline: Henry Blodget (Blodget is president of Cherry Hill Research, an industry-research firm.) After watching u.s. stocks tread water for seven years, one might be tempted to conclude that the market must finally be cheap, or at least...

The Good Life.
February 27, 2006... Byline: Sana Butler, Ginanne Brownell, Kasia Gruszkowska,Steven Levy Fashion: What's In Your Trunk? By Sana Butler They're more than fashion shows and sure beat buying off even the poshest rack. For the rich and stylish, trunk...

Perspectives.
February 27, 2006... "I'm the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend." U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, on accidentally shooting lawyer Harry Whittington. "No civilian nuclear program can explain the Iranian nuclear program. So it is a clandestine...

International Periscope.
February 27, 2006... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller, Mark Hosenball, Jonathan Adams, Joe Cochrane, Keith Naughton, Stryker Mcguire, Cathleen Mcguigan, Nick Summers Google: The Guessing Game Nearly six years after the first dot-com bubble burst, the lesson is...

Unimaginable; The Torino Games have spread the wealth, and at times rocked the joint.
February 27, 2006... Byline: Mark Starr Maybe the crowds in Torino aren't stoked to fever pitch, as they were in Salt Lake City four years ago. Then again, the Italian Olympic team isn't on a record medal pace--with just six halfway through the Games--as the...

Police! Freeze! Do You Accept Visa? With online games, product placement ads can cater to different players at different times.
February 27, 2006... Byline: Kasia Gruszkowska You are the world's best undercover agent on a secret mission behind enemy lines. You've got your state-of-the-art weapon, body armor, night-vision goggles--and minty-fresh breath, thanks to Airwaves chewing gum....