Newsweek International articles from January 2006

Newsweek International archives from January 2006

Letters.
January 9, 2006... Winning Women Readers praised our Nov. 14 look at what one called "refreshing and inspiring" female success stories. Of the women profiled, one said, "These leaders will be my example." But another lamented, "Women receive recognition only...

Europe: Who Hails Sweden; For all the foreign praise it gets, many Swedes focus on the weak points of their model society.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Stryker McGuire Sweden is back. Sweden: where high taxes meet economic competitiveness. Sweden: a high-tech nirvana populated by fit armies of Internet explorers and early adapters unafraid of the next new thing. Sweden: cool and...

A Danish Conspiracy; The secret to Denmark's success is a knack for niches, and a labor peace pact that larger economies will find hard to copy.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller Bang & Olufsen assembles high-end speakers and televisions by hand in rural Denmark from parts sourced worldwide. The company can pull this off in one of Europe's cushiest welfare states because shop stewards...

The Gender Gap: Moms Not Wanted; Sweden bends over backward to help women work, but in ways that often keep them out of the best jobs.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Rana Foroohar Europeans and Americans alike have certain romantic notions about Sweden. We imagine it as a land of liberal-minded people living in a bastion of equality--which, in many ways, it is. Sweden has the second highest...

Hot Markets, Solid Ground; Why emerging nations are a new force for stability in the world economy, not a new crisis-in-the-making.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Jeffrey E. Garten (Garten is the Juan Trippe Professor at the Yale School of Management. He can be contacted at jeffrey.garten@yale.edu.) I have generally been a worrier when it comes to thinking about risks in an ever-shrinking...

'Europeans at the Gate'; The ouster of Rome's central banker may prompt Italians to open the door to Continental reforms.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Jacopo Barigazzi The latest blockbuster Italian scandal is a bit unusual, in that it was made largely in Europe. That, in any event, is the impression in Milan financial circles, which attribute the recent fall of Italy's...

Stars Without Static; Indian entrepreneurs help usher in digital cinema.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Sudip Mazumdar Indians are avid moviegoers. Every day millions of people flock to thousands of theaters to see some of the 700 movies made every year in the country. In the back of each theater, noisy steel movie projectors thread...

The People's Encyclopedia; As Wikipedia grows into a mainstream Internet brand, will it be able to keep its volunteers in line?
January 9, 2006... Byline: Benjamin Sutherland Frieda Brioschi makes her living programming computers in Arcore, Italy, but she still finds more than 25 hours a week to help edit the Italian version of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, and to speak in...

Storm Over Stem Cells; Koreans lost a national hero in the scandal. But their scientists still lead the way in biotech research.
January 9, 2006... Byline: B. J. Lee The world's stem-cell hub at Seoul National University Hospital seemed like the epicenter of global biotechnology when it was dedicated last October. The new lab was built chiefly to house Hwang Woo Suk, South Korea's...

The Rebel Shooter; A glorious Pompidou exhibit reveals how William Klein shaped all of modern photography.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Dana Thomas Photographer William Klein has always been a rebel. When he started shooting fashion in 1955, he says, he wanted to "invent and find new ways of doing things." By putting models in real life setting and printing the...

City With a Film Past--And Future.(Shanghai)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (Wasserstrom, currently the director of Indiana University's East Asian Studies Center, will soon join the history department of the University of California, Irvine.) The White Countess" is hardly the first...

Shanghai Surprise; The last Merchant-Ivory has glamour but no guts.(The White Countess)(Movie Review)
January 9, 2006... Byline: David Ansen It would be nice to report that the final collaboration between James Ivory and his late producing partner, Ismail Merchant, ranked with their best work, such as the luminous "Howards End" and "A Room With a View."...

Stay-at-Home Scholars; As the competition for bright Asian students heats up, European universities discover that it pays to go local.
January 9, 2006... Byline: William Underhill The clock tower looks out over a 38-hectare campus graced by an ornamental lake and a pillared central hall. Add a little ivy and it could be almost any respected seat of learning in the West. Only the hemisphere...

Latin America's Two Left Wings; Don't confuse those leaders who spring from a communist or socialist past with those who trace their roots to old-fashioned populism.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Jorge Castaneda Is Latin America swerving left? Is that the right question? Clearly, the people who are winning elections today are not the ones who won them 5, 10 or 15 years ago; their rhetoric is not the same, and their views of...

The Last Word: Noam Chomsky; A Tale of Two Quagmires.(Interview)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Michael Hastings Noam Chomsky has been called one of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century, but it's an accolade the 77-year-old MIT professor doesn't take very seriously. "People just want to hear something...

Global Investor: Waiting for That Big 'Pop'; Is the emerging-markets boom now a bubble, and is it ready to burst? For an important clue, take the temperature of the U.S. economy.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Ruchir Sharma (Sharma is co-head of global emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.) There is only a fine line between euphoria and acrophobia. And most emerging markets are currently torn between the two...

The Good Life.(culinary tourist destinations)(Memoirs of a Geisha tie-ins)(DualDisc CD/DVD format)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Tara Weingarten, Ramin Setoodeh, Owen Matthews, Anna Nemtsova, Jaime Cunningham, Tara Pepper, Ginanne Brownell Travel: Back to The Land By Tara Weingarten For true foodies, it is no longer enough simply to visit a great...

International Perspectives.(quotes from Iraqi elections to Aidan Quinn's "The Book of Daniel" TV program)(Brief Article)
January 9, 2006... "We have nothing to hide." Safwat Rashid , an Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq official, on Sunni Arabs' and secular groups' demanding a review of Iraq's elections "There is no justification for such violence and loss of life."...

Periscope.(short updates on a variety of global political topics)(Column)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Mark Hosenball, Owen Matthews, Rod Nordland, Eric Pape, Nicki Gostin, Anna Nemtsova, Ramin Setoodeh, Bret Begun 9/11: A Special Slide Show Why did some Bush administration officials--including Vice President Dick Cheney--still...

Is That a Bull's-Eye On Your Wallet?(innovations in Internet fraud)
January 9, 2006... Byline: John Sparks It sounds like a Hollywood techno-thriller: A shadowy figure in Germany creates an unstoppable Internet worm that hides for years from the cybercops. The trouble is, this is real life. The worm, called Sober, has struck...

Read It Quick: I Luv U.(self-deleting text messages)(Brief Article)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Benjamin Sutherland Gotten burned by a digital "I luv u" that you forgot to delete from your cell phone? British firm Staellium now offers self-destructing text messages. Instead of the messages' just sitting in your cell phone's...

Mail Call: The Ethics of Torture.(Letter to the Editor)
January 16, 2006... Our Nov. 21 articles on torture drew outrage. One reader wondered how a religious man like George W. Bush could allow such an act, saying, "Bush should pull out his Bible and read up on this." And a U.S. war veteran said, "For this government...

Calculated Contradictions; Evo Morales's two constituencies: Bolivia... and Brazil.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Mac Margolis When a mop-haired socialist coca farmer won the Bolivian presidency last month, a chill swept through Washington. After all, Evo Morales is not only the champion of the cocaleros , whose harvests supply the global...

Hoping For A Gusher; Moscow planned to remake Gazprom into a major energy multinational. Then came the Ukraine fiasco. What it will take to get investors now.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Owen Matthews (With Anna Nemtsova in Kiev and Rana Foroohar in London) Gazprom's bosses expected to make headlines this month--not because of Russia's gas war with Ukraine, but because of a stock offer that could hail the emergence...

The Man With The Razor; The Ukraine crisis is a post-Soviet tale of Jekyll and Hyde. By day, good Dr. Putin tries to remake Russia as a modern country. By night...
January 16, 2006... Byline: Michael Meyer Power is a double-edged weapon, Vladimir Putin once told NEWSWEEK, likening it to a razor in the hands of a drunk. Wield it clumsily and you'll be hurt. Lately, Putin himself has played the drunk. And he's bleeding....

High-Tech Hunger; The Goal: Make China a technology powerhouse--critics say by any means necessary. Inside Beijing's '863 program.'.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Melinda Liu (With Craig Simons In Beijing, Sudip Mazumdar In New Delhi And Hideko Takayama In Tokyo) Don't be fooled by Wang Xiaoyun's demure demeanor. The 39-year-old mathematician is an instrument of China's campaign to become a...

The Huawei Way; The telecom giant is either a security menace or a real comer--or it could be a house of cards. Or all of the above.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Craig Simons (With William Underhill in London) In just 18 years, Huawei has grown from a corporate midget into a mighty global contender in one of the world's key industries. In 1988, when the Chinese company was founded by Ren...

A Piracy Culture; Beijing continues to defy U.S. and European efforts to stop IP theft.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Sarah Schafer On a recent afternoon at Beijing's famous Silk Street Market, a vendor displayed a wide selection of Burberry rain coats. Price: $40, subject to negotiation. Like virtually all of the luxury goods for sale at the...

'It's War Now'; A major rebellion in Baluchistan puts President Pervez Musharraf's tribal policies to the test.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Zahid Hussain Their faces partially covered by huge white turbans, the heavily armed tribesmen dig into their positions on the edge of a rocky outcropping. Others stand guard on the surrounding parched brown hills. There is no sign...

Ghosts in the Machine; World-renowned for its hardware, Japan has a software problem. And the bugs are starting to bite.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Christian Caryl For 2006, the Tokyo stock exchange has decided to supplement its computer systems with an exotic new backup technology: people. In December an employee at the Japanese investment firm Mizuho entered a mistaken sell...

Taking Back the Waterfront; Shorelines have always constituted prime real estate in Asia. Now the Region's city planners--led by Singapore--are seeing the value in being green.
January 16, 2006... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop (With B. J. Lee in Seoul and Jonathan Adams in Taipei) When America's Lucasfilm Animation wanted to open its first foreign studio in 2004, a handful of countries tried to lure them. All...

The Return of the Rebel; Subcomandante Marcos takes on Mexico's politicians.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Monica Campbell Twelve years ago this month Subcomandante Marcos burst into world headlines as the head of an indigenous rebellion in the Mexican state of Chiapas. His insurrection stunned the government in Mexico City and left 150...

The Measure Of the Man; His great flaw (and irony) is that he created his own demons. His staunchest foes are his progeny.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Rami G. Khouri (Khouri is editor-at-large for the Daily Star in Beirut.) Ariel Sharon, the person, deserved health and long life. Israelis and Palestinians alike, however, deserve his political departure. For other than some daring...

The Great King Khan.(Shahrukh Khan)(Interview)
January 16, 2006... Byline: Malcolm Beith Shahrukh Khan has acted in nearly 60 films and produced more than a handful of his own. But at 40 years, he's just hitting his stride. "Age hasn't hit me yet," says the father of two. "Only when my knees are in pain,...

The Great Shock Absorber; Good macroeconomic policies and improved microeconomic flexibility have strengthened the global economy's 'immune system.'.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Nariman Behravesh (Behravesh is chief economist and executive vice president for Global Insight.) The U.S. and global economies were able to withstand three body blows in 2005--one of the worst tsunamis on record (which struck at...

The Good Life: Jan 16th, 2006 Issue.(gold jewelry trends)(Kotur to supply bag for Oscars )(skiwear styles)
January 16, 2006... Byline: Tara Pepper, Alexandra A. Seno, Emily Flynn Vencat, Kasia Gruszkowska Fashion: Going For Gold By Tara Pepper Gold has long been a safe haven for investors. Now it's the metal du jour for fashionistas, too. Gold jewelry and...

Perspectives.
January 16, 2006... "We're all praying for him. He is a giant of our nation." Israeli Jonathan Eilat, on the health of 77-year-old Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who suffered a massive stroke last week "I am not a doomsday predictor. I don't share the pessimistic...

Periscope.(intelligence leaks damages nonproliferation efforts)(violence continues after Iraq election)(instability increases in Haiti )
January 16, 2006... Byline: Mark Hosenball, Malcolm Beith, Michael Hastings, Christopher Dickey, Sami Kohen, Rod Nordland, Elise Soukup, Ramin Setoodeh, Martha Brant Nukes: Irate Over Intelligence Recent revelations in the British press and a newly published...

Using Color Codes To Browse the Web.(Colorzip codes)
January 16, 2006... Byline: Christian Caryl (With B. J. Lee in Seoul) It's an advertiser's dream. Imagine you're sitting in your favorite cafe when something in the business pages catches your eye. That company you're reading about sounds intriguing. So you...

Mail Call; Remembering John.(John Lennon)(Letter to the Editor)
January 23, 2006... Readers mourned the loss, after 25 years, of John Lennon. One called him a "genius" and another said, "His voice echoes through generations." Others defended Paul McCartney against Yoko Ono's criticisms. Argued one, "Paul is not only the...

The Cameron Effect; A charismatic new leader revives the Tories' fortunes. Suddenly, it's cool to be Conservative.(Cover Story)
January 23, 2006... Byline: Stryker McGuire Ever since his election to a historic third term, in May 2005, Tony Blair has been searching for his legacy. Finally, he's found it. That's the good news. The bad--or at least, awkward--news? It comes in the shape...

A Man Who Would Be P.M. Few would have guessed Cameron's star would shine so bright.(Cover Story)
January 23, 2006... Byline: Matthew D'Ancona I first encountered David Cameron in the early '90s, when he was already the undisputed star of a young cohort of Conservatives--special advisers to cabinet ministers, speechwriters and researchers at party...

Posh Makes a Swishy Comeback; Eton. Oxford. Savile Row. It's nice to be a Brit.(Cover Story)
January 23, 2006... Byline: Ginanne Brownell (With Kasia Gruszkowska in London) At first glance David Cameron would seem to have little in common with James Blunt, the shaggy-haired soldier turned singer whose top-selling debut album, "Back to Bedlam,"...

Roiling the Baltic Waters; Here's a new obstacle to getting Russian gas to Europe: a seabed full of WWII-era chemical bombs.
January 23, 2006... Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova In June 1947, Capt.-Lt. Konstantin Tershkov of the Soviet Navy had a serious problem on his hands. He'd been ordered to dump 34,000 metric tons of captured Nazi chemical weapons into the deepest part...

A Social 'Time Bomb'; Behind the facade: income inequality is a growing problem.
January 23, 2006... Byline: B. J. Lee During a lunch break last week, hundreds of Samsung Electronics employees poured out of their tall headquarters building in downtown Seoul. Most seemed upbeat, and why not: the company had just concluded another...

Grades and Politics; Critics worry that a new quota law could derail some of the country's best-run educational institutions.
January 23, 2006... Byline: Sudip Mazumdar India's rise has been built in large part on the quality of its education. Some of the best brains in the world--in the fields of science, information technology, medicine and engineering--emerge from the country's...

Wheeling & Dealing; The Brits gave up on homegrown investment banking a decade ago. So why is London so hot now?
January 23, 2006... Byline: Rana Foroohar Ten years ago the British gave up investment banking, selling off their own financial-services firms one by one to American behemoths. Since then, the conventional wisdom has been that London itself would always play...

Beaming In Salvation; Stressed out and overworked, Indians are turning to spiritual television to save their bodies and souls.
January 23, 2006... Byline: Sudip Mazumdar (With Sumeet Chatterjee in Mumbai) In his modest home in the eastern Indian city of Asansol, Jati Shanker rises before the sun. The 56-year-old engineer heads for the living room, switches on the television and...

Icon: We Still Have Bananas; Carmen Miranda is back, and more colorful than ever.
January 23, 2006... Byline: Mac Margolis It's easy to slight Carmen Miranda. She stood 1.52 meters, shorter than most of today's sixth graders. She spoke halting English, wore preposterous get-ups and starred in no less preposterous films. Even in Brazil, the...

A Recipe for Good Health; If you want to be thin, it might help to eat like the French.
January 23, 2006... Byline: Eric Pape Despite a fondness for goose-liver pate, chocolate mousse and puffy pastries, the French have the lowest body weight per capita in the Western world. According to best-selling author and diet guru Michel Montignac, this...

The Graduate Moves On; A Japanese alumnus of Dell applies its model to TVs.
January 23, 2006... Byline: Christian Caryl These days no product embodies the ruthless, near-frictionless manufacturing machine of global capitalism more perfectly than the flat-panel TV. Sales are skyrocketing, dominated by consumer-electronics...

Relighting the Olympic Fire.
January 23, 2006... Byline: Barbie Nadeau Alberto Tomba is unquestionably Italy's greatest skiing legend. The 39-year-old has won five Olympic medals and more than 50 World Cup skiing events during his 15-year professional career. Since retiring in 1998, the...

Hizbullah's Identity Crisis; The party hoped to become the region's standard-bearer in the struggle against Israel. Instead, that role falls to Palestinian groups like Hamas.
January 23, 2006... Byline: Michael Young The focus in next week's Palestinian legislative elections is on the Islamic group Hamas, with both Israel and the Palestinian Authority wary of its entry into mainstream politics. Late last year all eyes were on...

The Saudis May Have Enough Oil; From 1995 to 2004, less than 30 new wildcat wells were drilled in Saudi Arabia, compared with more than 15,700 in the United States.
January 23, 2006... Byline: Leonardo Maugeri Oil doomsayers have a lot of material from which to spin conspiracy theories, since several big oil countries are secretive about their reserves, which they consider a matter of national security. Recently, oil...

The Good Life.(Winter Olympics 2006)
January 23, 2006... Byline: Kasia Gruszkowska (Barbie Nadeau) 2006 Winter Olympics: Tempted By Torino By Kasia Gruszkowska and Barbie Nadeau If you've always dreamed about going to the winter Olympics, this may be your lucky year. Less than a month before the...

The Nature of Nutrients; Are you really getting all the vitamins, minerals and fatty acids you need? NEWSWEEK and Harvard Medical School look at the latest data.
January 23, 2006... Byline: Anne Underwood It sounds like a simple question of logic. If bones require calcium, then people who eat a lot of calcium-rich dairy products should have extra-strong bones, right? So why are hip fractures uncommon in Singapore,...

Whom Can You Believe? There is real science behind nutritional advice, but no single study is definitive.
January 23, 2006... Byline: Meir J. Stampfer, M.D., PH.D., and Patrick J. Skerrett Anyone following the headlines on butter, fiber, vitamin E or low-carb diets (to name just a few) might well ask: why can't the experts get their story straight? Because...

Gut Flora? Great! Maintaining a balance of microorganisms can help strengthen your overall health.
January 23, 2006... Byline: Mary Carmichael You may use antibacterial dish soap and wash your hands every time you sneeze, but Jeffrey Gordon wants you to know that you're crawling with germs. Gordon, the director of the Center for Genome Sciences at...

Supplements Aren't The Secret to Health; Our Harvard expert advises going easy on soda and sweet rolls, and getting out of the car more often.
January 23, 2006... Byline: Meir Stampfer Next to water, what is the healthiest liquid to drink? Can I get the water I need from something else? DR. MEIR STAMPFER: You don't need to monitor water as if it were medicine. Your needs will vary depending...

Perspectives.
January 23, 2006... "They think that they are powerful." Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel's appeal for worldwide condemnation of Iran's nuclear activity "Events like this show that...

Al Qaeda: 'Got to Take That Shot'.
January 23, 2006... Byline: Sami Yousafzai, Mark Hosenball and Zahid Hussain (Mark Hosenball Quindlen Krovatin Rana Foroohar Michael Hastings Devin Gordon Elise Soukup Daniel McGinn) U.S. officials don't want to act rashly--especially in remote Pakistan,...

The New(est) Rules of Television.
January 23, 2006... Byline: Steven Levy Recently the consumer Electronics Show filled up Las Vegas with more than 130,000 people and countless cell phones, camcorders, flash drives, car stereos, MP3 players and porn stars. In a State of the Industry speech,...

Korean Firms on the Rebound.
January 23, 2006... Byline: B.J. Lee The sensational rise of Motorola's Razr was a wake-up call to South Korean cell-phone makers. Samsung, LG, Pantech and other Korean firms account for a quarter of the global market, but they'd gotten cocky about their...

Mail Call.(Letter to the editor)
January 30, 2006... Global Shopping Our Dec. 5 article on malls prompted one reader to observe that young people are drawn to malls because they live "in societies where the erosion of public space increases every day." Another applauded a Saudi mall...

The New Old Age; As the pool of young recruits dries up, companies and countries are putting the retired back to work.(Cover story)
January 30, 2006... Byline: Stefan Theil (With Hideko Takayama in Tokyo, Barbie Nadeau in Rome, Jacopo Barigazzi in Milan and B. J. Lee in Seoul) The Japanese senior citizens who founded Jeeba knew they were making history when they coined their company motto:...

China 2.0; After 25 years of sizzling growth, Beijing's shifting to a new economic model. Can Big Red go green?
January 30, 2006... Byline: Melinda Liu If you're a China watcher, you don't just listen to what top Beijing leaders say, but also to how many times they say it. This month President Hu Jintao has embraced a new mantra, stressing "sustainable development,"...

The Empire Strikes Back; A confident Kremlin is throwing its weight around.
January 30, 2006... Byline: Owen Matthews and Stefan Theil (With Corinna Emundts in Berlin and Anna Nemtsova in Kiev) No need to call in the Kremlinologists. Russia's latest messages to the West and its close neighbors are clear. First came the New Year's Day...

Smoother Surfing; A grab bag of programs called Ajax could threaten the dominance of Microsoft and desktop software.
January 30, 2006... Byline: Daren Briscoe If you want to get a fix on the future of the Internet, have a look at Google's map site. At first glance it may not seem much different from its competitors. But once you type in an address and see your perspective...

Hunting Bird Flu; Turkey's outbreak is proving to be a good test.
January 30, 2006... Byline: Rod Nordland The appearance of bird flu in Europe, and particularly the outbreak in Turkey, has created several scientific mysteries. Why, for instance, did the disease infect birds almost simultaneously in 13 provinces scattered...

A Real-Life Jurassic Park; By resurrecting the woolly mammoth and other species, scientists want to restore nature's balance.
January 30, 2006... Byline: Mac Margolis For the first 3.5 million years or so, woolly mammoths had it pretty easy. Standing more than three meters tall and weighing seven tons, they dwarfed the rest of the animal kingdom. That allowed them to graze or gambol...

A River in Reverse; Salt seeping up the Pearl River is threatening the delta.
January 30, 2006... Byline: George Wehrfritz Toxic spills have become all too common in China's rivers--poisoning the Yellow (diesel), a tributary of the Yangtze (sulfuric acid) and, most famously, the Songhua (benzene), just in the last three months. Now...

Anniversary Hype: The Birthday Bash; Critics can deconstruct his legacy all they want. But it won't keep fans from snatching up those Mozart golf balls.
January 30, 2006... Byline: Tara Pepper Whatever the source or extent of Mozart's genius, there is no doubt about his entrenched popular appeal. The world's concert halls are gearing up for the 250th anniversary of his birth on Jan. 27 with a year of...

End of a Rebel Culture? Takafumi Horie shook up stodgy Japan Inc. But the livedoor inquiry could erode confidence in some of Japan's most dynamic firms.
January 30, 2006... Byline: Christian Caryl (With Noriyuki Hirata) All the elements of scandal were present. Grim-faced prosecutors marching past the television cameras; frantic investors, betrayed believers, exultant enemies. The horror of a suicide. And at...

DVD Cold War; The battle to control the future of high-definition DVD is raging hot, but the outcome is not as critical as many claim.
January 30, 2006... Byline: Christian Caryl Las Vegas isn't the sort of place usually given to premonitions of the apocalypse. But at the Consumer Electronics Show, the world's largest trade fair of electronic gadgetry, the talk earlier this month was of...

We're Running Out of Time; It's been difficult to persuade the private sector to invest in vaccines. Unlike a drug that patients may have to take for a lifetime, an effective vaccine is a 'one-shot' deal.
January 30, 2006... Byline: Dr. Seth Berkley One of the hottest topics at this week's world economic Forum in Davos is sure to be pandemic preparedness. With new avian-flu cases surfacing in Asia, Turkey and Iraq, battling an H5N1 human-flu strain with...

Rethinking Mozart; On the 250th anniversary of his birth, a more realistic picture of the composer's musical genius is emerging.
January 30, 2006... Byline: Andrew Moravcsik (Moravcsik directs the European Union program at Princeton University.) Mozart has overtaken Beethoven, the favorite son of the 19th century, as the most admired composer in the history of Western music. He has the...

The Secret to Future Growth; Leaders must understand that economic competitiveness hinges on developing the full creative capabilities of the store clerk and landscape laborer as well as the computer scientist.
January 30, 2006... Byline: Richard Florida (FLORIDA is the Hirst Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and author of "The Flight of the Creative Class") As the world's elite gathers for the annual world Economic Forum summit in Davos, the...

Fashion: Lace Makes the Woman.
January 30, 2006... Byline: Kasia Gruszkowska (Barbie Nadeau) If you associate "crochet" with the afghan your grandmother made, then it's definitely time to update your image. Dresses, tops and jackets made of lace and crochet are filling shop windows for...

Iraq's Oil Bust; Oil exports were supposed to pay for the reconstruction. Instead they've been stifled.
January 30, 2006... Byline: Scott Johnson and Michael Hastings (With Christopher Dickey in Paris) Guarding the Fatah oil refinery used to be a pretty straightforward job. Insurgents hit the complex only sporadically, at night, and usually missed important...

Walking a Fine Line; Rosanne Cash's new CD is a matter of life and death.(Sound recording review)
January 30, 2006... Byline: Malcolm Jones Being the child of a celebrity means running into some part of your personal life every time you turn the corner. Being the child of a dead celebrity, as Rosanne Cash has discovered since her father's death in 2003,...

Perspectives.
January 30, 2006... Byline: QUOTATION SOURCES FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: CNN, AP, NEW YORK TIMES (2), AP, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, TIMES ONLINE "It's only a matter of time." Osama bin Laden, on an audiotape warning that Al Qaeda is planning new attacks. He also suggested...

Factory Work Takes A Videogame Turn.
January 30, 2006... Byline: Benjamin Sutherland Computer graphics usually appear on screens. Craig Wyvill, a researcher in optics engineering at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, prefers to display his on dead, plucked chickens dangling from a monorail. In noisy...

Denim for the iPod Set.(Brief article)
January 30, 2006... Byline: Jesse Ellison Levi Strauss & Co. originally put that little pocket in the front of its jeans so that miners would have a place to keep their matches. Now the classic design is changing to make way for the ubiquitous iPod. Levi's...