Newsweek International articles from January 2003

Newsweek International archives from January 2003

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
January 13, 2003... Ancient Healing Arts Our Dec. 2 cover story on alternative medicine moved many readers to share their own positive experiments with "old, experienced ways of healing." Some wrote in praise of homeopathy; one missed the mention of ayurveda....

Deadline on Cyprus : Young Turks want their say in the island's future.
January 13, 2003... People power, Cypriot style. What else to call it when 30,000 demonstrators-- nearly 20 percent of the population of the Turkish part of the divided island--turn out on the streets of Nicosia? Five hundred kilometers away in Ankara, the old man...

A Captive Land : The people of Nepal have become hostages to terror.
January 13, 2003... The Himalayan kingdom of Nepal looms large in the Western imagination. But the mountain redoubt that once sat peacefully between India and China is no Shangri-La. Since Maoist insurgents first took to the hills seven years ago, Nepal has known...

Rot at Europe's Core : The European Union faces a new challenge for the coming decade--how to manage a weak Germany, adrift and lacking leadership.
January 13, 2003... Gerhard Schroder is feeling besieged. Every day he's trashed in the German media. At press conferences, he irritably lashes out at critics. His poll numbers are abominable--32 percent and sinking. Abroad, he's robbed Germany of nearly all clout...

Here Come the Brits : The French countryside hosts a new English invasion.(British buy homes in north of France)
January 13, 2003... The last time the English passed through Agincourt was in 1415. That's when Henry V and an outnumbered English Army scored one of its bloodiest triumphs in centuries of conflict with France. Ten thousand Frenchmen were slaughtered in a few...

Cursed By Black Gold : Venezuela's leader counts on popular resentment of the rich to keep him in power. But the country's real problem isn't its wealth so much as where it comes from.(Hugo Chavez, petroleum industry, distribution of wealth)
January 13, 2003... Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has supporters with active imaginations. In recent street demonstrations a Chavez supporter has raised aloft a political prop dubbed "The Rats Attack." A large papier-mache tableau mounted on poles, the creation...

The Dangers of Delay : Restrictions on stem-cell research in the United States will exact costs on American doctors as well as potential patients.
January 13, 2003... In August 2001, when President George W. Bush announced that federal funds could be used to support research on human embryonic stem cells, he mandated that only those cell lines that existed at the time would qualify for such support. More...

Forever Young? : Okinawa has the highest proportion of centenarians in the world. But the islands' next generation may not live so long.
January 13, 2003... Every morning Seiryu Toguchi rises at 6 o'clock, washes his face and performs exercises in the lush front yard of his home in Okinawa. He prepares a breakfast of rice and miso soup with spinach and egg. Then he tends his nearby farm, where he...

Marching in Blackface : Infiltrating Cape Town's controversial Carnival.(Column)
January 13, 2003... Not everyone likes Cape Town's "Coon Carnival" as much as I do. In the past, I followed the annual Jan. 2 parade of mixed-race, or Colored, performers to the final raucous singing contest, intrigued by the overlap between American and South...

Dollars and Degrees : Americans are building the first multinational corporations in an industry long hostile to the whole idea of profit: university education.
January 13, 2003... American economists once spoofed university education as the only industry in which those who consume its product do not purchase it; those who produce it do not sell it, and those who finance it do not control it. That apt description, made in...

Attack of the Clones : Even if reports of newborn clone babies turn out to have been greatly exaggerated, the political fallout looks all too real. And the United States has the most to lose.
January 13, 2003... During Christmastime in Italy, there's always a whiff of immaculate conception in the air. But this year Italians found themselves waiting for a wholly different kind of miracle birth--one that has nothing to do with religion. Back in November,...

'It Is the Other Way Around'.(Prince Saud al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia)(Interview)
January 13, 2003... With King Fahd disabled and Crown Prince Abdullah press-shy, Prince Saud al- Faisal, long-time foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, is the highest-ranking official in that country who is willing to grant interviews. In late December, he sat down...

The New Dog's Life.
January 13, 2003... The cake is homemade, decorated with HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SOPHIE in gloppy red icing. We gather around the 4-year-old and sing the birthday song, but the camera isn't ready, so we sing again. Cake comes with assorted flavors of ice cream. Sophie's...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... "With which country?" U.S. President George W. Bush, when asked by reporters about going to war "Even if they open all the doors in Iraq for us and keep them open 24 hours a day, we won't be able to find a black cat in a dark room,...

Periscope.
January 13, 2003... IRAQ: Hostilities Launched Has the war in Iraq already started? It sure looks that way to U.S. pilots in the region. The Pentagon makes no secret of the fact that since the mid- 1990s, the U.S. military has been bombing targets in southern...

New Year, Brand-New Breasts?(breast implants and questions to ask surgeon)
January 13, 2003... Renae Waestman, 27, had always wanted the perfect hourglass figure: she thought her small breasts didn't go well with her slender waist and ample hips. It's not that she wanted the bust of Pamela Anderson--Catherine Zeta- Jones's would do just...

English Cottages.(information on traveling in England)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... As Robert Browning wrote, "Oh, to be in England now that April's there." To truly appreciate the joys of springtime in England, try renting a rural stone cottage. How to find them: For leads, call your local British Tourist Authority...

UNCORKED / EISWEINS.(wine made from grapes harvested after they have frozen)(Brief Article)(Buyers Guide)
January 13, 2003... Eiswein grapes are freaks of nature, harvested after they've actually frozen on the vine. The icy pellets yield only a tiny amount of sugar-rich juice, but its flavor is complex, sweet and tart. These wines are rare and expensive, but sip one...

For The Curb Or The Club.(the Mostro shoe from Puma)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... We at Tip Sheet strongly resist the notion that just because something is cool in Paris, it'd be cool in America. (It is, after all, a place where cheese is considered dessert.) Sometimes, though, those Parisians get it right, like this...

Just Say No.
January 20, 2003... Most readers were pleased with our Dec. 9 Special Report on teen virginity. Many lauded abstinence as a welcome response to what one called "a backlash against a pushy amoral society." But others called abstinence "unrealistic" and stressed the...

Playing Mind Games.
January 20, 2003... Senior Bush aides say they were almost relieved when North Korea finally made its move. For weeks they had been quietly predicting that Pyongyang would quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Withdrawing from the pact--the basis of...

Warriors From the North.(North Korea's Special Operations Force)
January 20, 2003... When Japanese investigators raised a North Korean spy ship from the ocean's depths last September, they found more than they'd bargained for. The vessel, which sank after a fire fight with the Japanese Coast Guard in December 2001, had an...

Waiting on the Dear Leader.
January 20, 2003... By all accounts, "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il has never visited the North Korean border town of Hoeryong. Not even to pay tribute to his mother. "We have a museum, library, statue, square and even the original house in which she was born," boasts...

The Deadly Noodle.
January 20, 2003... Of all the ways France has resisted the cultural imperialism of the United States, it has arguably achieved its greatest success in the realm of food. Not only is French cuisine the envy of the world, but culinary tradition has allowed the...

Trouble At Home.
January 20, 2003... Li Jia, a tall, skinny 16-year-old from the countryside of northern China, remembers when her mother finally screwed up the courage to leave her abusive husband. Mother and daughter fled to a relative's house, but Dad kept calling. One day, he...

Back to the Future.
January 20, 2003... A decade ago, after the Soviet collapse, Russia rushed to liberate itself from the namesakes of fallen idols. Leningrad became St. Petersburg, Gorky became Nizhny Novgorod. But today, in the river city of Volgograd, scene of one of the most...

Once Proud, Now Angry.
January 20, 2003... Hong Kong's civil service has long been the envy of Asia. Surveys regularly cite the competence and probity of the enclave's government workers as a top reason Hong Kong is a good place to do business. The Asian Intelligence Report, published...

Money on the Move.
January 20, 2003... Manuel Monroy is a motorcycle loan officer. Not police officer. Loan officer. Every day he rides the streets of Mexico City, ringing doorbells and dodging barking dogs to visit customers. He is one of 3,000 motorcycle agents of the new Banco...

Europe's Zimbabwe.
January 20, 2003... You would never guess that a revolution is brewing, reading the glossy sales brochure for Amhuinnsuidhe Castle in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. There's the turreted Victorian castle on the isle of Harris, all stag heads, tapestries and family...

Breathing Life Into a Number.(Brief Article)
January 20, 2003... Throughout history, math has been seen as a key to understanding the universe, "a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed by human agency," wrote Descartes. Now a new book by Hubble space-telescope...

The Endless Show.
January 20, 2003... Call it "calendar creep" or simply "slow shows," but in Europe and America, art-museum exhibitions seem to be running longer and longer these days. The giant Aztec show at the Royal Academy in London, for example, will endure almost as long as...

The Chess Goddess.(Aleksandra Kosteniuk)
January 20, 2003... Inside the crumbling rooms of Moscow's Central House of Chess, dozens of top players and fans watch in rapt attention as a match unfolds at lightning speed. On one side of the board sits an elderly Russian man, sporting thick glasses and a...

Suffocating in the Slums.(City Of God)(Movie Review)
January 20, 2003... Early in "City Of God," the new Brazilian feature film about drugs and thugs, a cherub-cheeked youngster presents his credentials to the local gang boss. "I've robbed, assaulted, snorted [cocaine] and killed," he boasts. "I'm a man." The line...

Turkey Gets Cold Feet.
January 20, 2003... Call it a bad case of cold feet. To fight a war against Saddam Hussein, Washington needs Turkey's help. At the least, it wants access to air bases along Iraq's northern border. At best, it hopes for permission to launch a full-scale ground...

Israel's 'Only Clean Party'.(Tommy Lapid, Shinui Party)
January 20, 2003... Only a month ago, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his right-wing Likud Party looked invincible. Now, corruption allegations have sent the Israeli leader's re-election campaign into a tailspin. And the main beneficiary does not appear to be...

Dreams of Darjeeling.
January 20, 2003... An Arab acquaintance from Moka (yes, where your mocha brew comes from) told me how he tried a bit of humor at his U.S. visa interview recently. "How can you assure me that you'll return and won't simply settle in America?" the immigration...

Perspectives.
January 20, 2003... "They are upping the ante." Han Sung Joo, former South Korean foreign minister, on North Korea withdrawing from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty "My dream came true today." Student Sahar Alvandi, 17, who joined the first group of women...

Periscope.(includes multiple articles)
January 20, 2003... Brazil: Lula's Looking Good As soon as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio (Lula) da Silva was sworn in on Jan. 1, the world worried that his leftist leadership would send Brazil down the path of neighboring Argentina. Foreign investors feared...

Used Vacations.
January 20, 2003... On a trip to Goa, India, a year ago, Michael Lyall and his wife, Tracey, were bombarded with time-share offers. They stopped by a presentation at the Royal Goan Beach Club at Benaulim, and loved the resort's landscaped pool and miles of nearby...

Correction.
January 27, 2003... In "The Quiet Power of Condi Rice" NEWSWEEK reported that during Rice's time as provost of Stanford University (1993-1999) the number of African-Americans on the faculty declined. According to Stanford, the number of African-Americans on the...

The Power of Rice.
January 27, 2003... Our Dec. 16 cover story on Condoleezza Rice prompted readers to share their views not only on the subject herself, but on the race issue, on the problems of successful women and on President Bush's foreign policy. "She's quite a gal!" gushed...

Hope of the World.
January 27, 2003... "This is no time to go wobbly, George." so said Margaret Thatcher, famously, when Iraqi tanks rolled into Kuwait in 1990 and Washington's initial response struck her as too tame. As the United States and Britain again prepare for war, some...

A Reckless Harvest.
January 27, 2003... The ornate three-story palace just off the main road in Ruili, a boomtown on China's southern border, is a monument to the plunder of Burma's rain forests--and to China's insatiable appetite for timber. Meng Jianxin, the 50-year-old timber...

A Matter of Survival.
January 27, 2003... For a while, growing rice, wheat and the odd poppy crop were enough to support Haji Jamal and the 45 members of his extended family. But when the medical bills started piling up three years ago, Jamal had to turn to crime. He began cutting the...

Europe Misses The Point.
January 27, 2003... Heise is chief economist for the Allianz Group and Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt. Once upon a time, the governments of Germany, France or Italy could revel in their considerable accomplishments--the creation of a single market, a common...

Fighting in Summer?
January 27, 2003... Will George Bush press the button for war Monday, Jan. 27, the day U.N. inspectors in Iraq make their initial report? Not likely. Even Britain would be hard pressed to go along if he did. And permission to use bases in Turkey, Jordan and...

Sharon the Peacemaker?(Ariel Sharon)
January 27, 2003... The meeting left Asher Levy feeling hopeful. The 76-year-old retired general had come to see Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon about building a war monument, but the conversation between the two men, who fought together against the Arabs in...

A 'Responsible' Start.(Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva )
January 27, 2003... When Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil's 30th president Jan. 1, many people held their breath. This bearded union man was not just Wall Street's worst nightmare. There were fears that his administration would ruin South America's...

Out of the Shadows.(Tsuguharu Foujita)
January 27, 2003... Tsuguharu Foujita, one of Japan's most celebrated artists abroad, wasn't happy at home. A fixture on the 1920s Paris cafe circuit, he was renowned almost as much for his tireless partying as for his sumptuous paintings of cats and women with...

Bordeaux on the Go.
January 27, 2003... It's lunchtime in Paris, and all over this city of gastronomic delights, people are cutting into their steak frites, nibbling croque- monsieur and slurping soupe a l'oignon. But in the bustling Gare du Nord, Jean-Pierre Arnaud is staring into a...

The Arab Alternative.
January 27, 2003... A few weeks ago, Hassan Yassin had a bright idea. The well-connected former Saudi official often sends up trial balloons in the Western press. They fly, or get blasted out of the sky, and the princes in Riyadh duly note the results. In an...

The Fear of Food.
January 27, 2003... Tony Hall's career has always depended on his command of certain facts about corn. For instance, did you know that last year the United States produced more than 9 billion bushels, 42 percent of the world's supply? And that a year's worth of...

The Green Land Grab.
January 27, 2003... It was heretical for an environmentalist to say so, but Dick Rice was sure the big timber companies were not lying. They couldn't afford to help save the forests. His epiphany came during a 1990 trip to Bolivia, where Rice was studying...

The Case for Caution.
January 27, 2003... When China, India and Zambia decided to resist genetically modified food, they were widely perceived as following Europe's lead. U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Zoellick has threatened to drag Europe before the World Trade Organization over its policy...

Always Home.
January 27, 2003... When he was 4, Michael Portegies-Zwart asked his mother, Carolyn, the question that all parents dread: "Where do I come from?" But instead of reaching for the anatomy books, she pulled out the atlas. "[I'm] from the United States, your father...

Luxury Takes a Dive.
January 27, 2003... When Clarins announced earlier this month that it was shutting down Thierry Mugler's couture house, fellow members of the luxury industry were hardly surprised. After a decade of astounding double-digit growth, luxury is experiencing a bona...

'I'm Not Going To Resign'.(Hugo Chavez)
January 27, 2003... Hugo Chavez is not easily cowed. The Venezuelan president, who's been in office for four years, is under siege from an angry coalition that opposes his leftist policies and accuses him of running the country like a dictatorship. A six-week-old...

The Big Game, Part 37.(American football)
January 27, 2003... America's most-watched sporting event--the super bowl--is just around the corner. I couldn't be more bored. It's not that I don't love American football. It's a fantastic sport, a rare mix of naked aggression, intricate play-calling and...

Perspectives.
January 27, 2003... "Our Army is prepared for the worst-case scenario." Lee Jun, South Korea's Defense minister, on the possibility of war erupting with North Korea "The people of Baghdad have resolved to compel the Mongols of this age to commit suicide on...

Periscope.
January 27, 2003... EXCLUSIVE High-Seas Terrorism Accused Qaeda operative Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, captured late last year, has given CIA investigators information raising concerns that Al Qaeda's "navy" could be the biggest current threat to U.S. and...

The 'Weddingmooners'.
January 27, 2003... When Emily Lam and Ned Lai tied the knot in November, they managed to avoid many of the usual wedding hassles. Then again, the couple, who are 30 and 29, respectively, did have to make an emergency landing when their hot-air balloon...

Nature's Night Life.(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... Point your dogsled north this winter for a glimpse of the stunning aurora borealis--a curtain of colored lights formed when solar flares react with Earth's magnetic field. They shine all year long but will be most spectacular in the next few...

Use Your Noggin.(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... You probably make your kid wear one, so why don't you? Interest in ski helmets has soared since Sonny Bono and Michael Kennedy were killed after colliding with trees five years ago. Some ski schools now require helmets for kids, and sales have...

Uncorked / Spanish Wines.(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... Spain doesn't have the high wine profile of France or Italy--or even California, for that matter. But, with the third largest vineyard acreage in the world, it produces quality reds and whites at bargain prices. Some good choices for...

Bringing Up Baby.(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... Can a family be too close? More and more parents are sleeping next to their infants--in the United States, the percentage of bed-sharing babies has more than doubled in recent years, from 5.5 percent in 1993 to 12.8 percent in 2000, according...