Newsweek International articles from March 2004

Newsweek International archives from March 2004

The New Face of Marriage; Americans are grappling with same-sex marriage. But the real changes to the institution are coming from heterosexuals.
March 1, 2004... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz, With Brad Stone, Pat Wingert, Karen Springen, Julie Scelfo, Barry Brown, Liat Radcliffe, Stefan Theil, Melissa Roberts, Kay Itoi, Mac Margolis, Peter Hudson and bureau reports Los Angeles actresses Alice Dodd and...

A Free-for-All; The destitute southern city of Nasiriya has become an unruly laboratory for democracy.(Cover Story)
March 1, 2004... Byline: Joshua Hammer Salman Shareef Duaffar is proud of his former title as the most wanted man in Iraq. Seven years ago, Duaffar and three accomplices carried out the most brazen assault ever against the despotic regime of Saddam...

Najaf, Renewed; The religious center sways the world's 170 million Shiites--and its clerics will play an enormous role in the evolution of Iraq.(Cover Story)
March 1, 2004... Byline: Yitzhak Nakash, Nakash is chair of the program of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University, and the author of "The Shi'is of Iraq." April 9, 2003, will be remembered as the day when much of Baghdad tumbled into...

A Risky Trip; Mexico's northern border gets the attention, but its southern boundary is a dangerous mess.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Byline: Scott Johnson Ciudad Hidalgo and Tecun Uman are two sides of the same city--the former in Mexico, the latter in Guatemala. All that separates them are the muddy waters of the River Suchiate, and the International Bridge that spans...

The Return of Hate; Anti-Semitism, fueled by an angry minority, is on the rise. But the real problem is that no one seems to care.
March 1, 2004... Byline: Marie Valla and Christopher Dickey, With Eric Pape in Carpentras The dead are locked into the old Jewish cemetery in Carpentras, France, and it's for their own protection. In 1990, four young neo-Nazis hopped over the crumbling...

Going Global; Flush with billions in foreign reserves, China is embarking on a buying spree.(Industry Overview)(Cover Story)
March 1, 2004... Byline: George Wehrfritz, With Alexandra A. Seno in Hong Kong and B. J. Lee in Seoul Nestled deep in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong's gritty factory district, China's leading cell-phone manufacturer is plotting to conquer the world. Hatched in 1992...

Fear of Foreigners; Westerners worry about an invasion of migrants, come May 1. But so do many of those in the East.
March 1, 2004... Byline: Ginanne Brownell and Stryker McGuire, With Friso Endt in The Hague, Katka Krosnar in Prague and Charlotta Larsson in Vienna Agnieszka Zawadka, 24, can be forgiven for clinging to her European dream. For her and thousands of young...

Cloning College; South Korea's biomedical researchers, unhampered by politics, do world-class research on the cheap.
March 1, 2004... Byline: B. J. Lee The thermostat on the sixth floor of Building 85 is cranked up to the body temperature of a pig--the better to work with the body parts--but Kim Hye Soo doesn't seem to mind the heat. Neither is she rattled by the blood...

Death of the Designer; The titans of luxury have shifted fashion's focus from the designer to the brand. That's good for business, but not for creativity. Ciao, Tom Ford.(Industry Overview)
March 1, 2004... Byline: Dana Thomas In his 10 years as creative director of Gucci, Tom Ford has taken the 80-year-old Florentine leather-goods company from the brink of bankruptcy to the height of success. With his sexy velvet hip-huggers, bad-girl...

An Honorable Soldier; Cold-war spy Ryszard Kuklinski had patriotic motives.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Byline: Anne Applebaum, Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post. Her latest book is "Gulag: A History." Tell me what you think of Colonel Kuklinski, and I'll tell you who you are." That was the phrase being bandied about in Warsaw...

Some Advice for Alan Greenspan; For reasons that are not altogether clear, you seem adamant about keeping interest rates at rock-bottom levels. That's asking for trouble.
March 1, 2004... Byline: Stephen S. Roach, Stephen S. Roach is the chief economist at Morgan Stanley Dear Mr. Chairman: Who would have thought that the U.S. economy would have come through the stock-market bubble of the late 1990s in such remarkable shape?...

Survival Strategies; Broke and fed up with Mugabe, millions are fleeing.
March 1, 2004... Byline: Karen MacGregor, With Jan Raath in Harare Hundreds of guests gathered last Saturday under an enormous marquee in Zvimba, Zimbabwe, about 80km west of the capital city of Harare. For a country spiraling into squalor, it was elegant...

Mohammed Reza Khatami; Iran's Other Khatami.(Interview)
March 1, 2004... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh It would have been easy for Mohammed Reza Khatami, 44, to let his brother Mohammed Khatami, the Iranian president, overshadow him. Instead, for the last four years he has led the nation's largest reform party,...

Fernando Meirelles; The Brazilian Blockbuster.(Brief Article)(Interview)
March 1, 2004... Byline: Mac Margolis Fernando Meirelles makes a lousy prima-donna. The award-winning Brazilian film director says he got his start "making half-crazy videos" for the alternative festival circuit. In 2002, when he released his...

Looking for the Online You.
March 1, 2004... Byline: Rob Long Late at night, when I'm bored or feeling insecure, I often kill a few hours by Googling myself. Let me rephrase that. Late at night, when I'm bored or feeling insecure, I often kill a few hours by plugging my name into...

Shiite Rising; The defeat of Saddam has unleashed a new religious and political force, which could become a moderate ally of the United States in Iraq--and perhaps spur reform in the larger Middle East.(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
March 1, 2004... Byline: Christopher Dickey and Rod Nordland, With Tamara Lipper in Washington and Babak Dehghanpisheh in Tehran Saddam Hussein had something against bananas, and taxed them heavily. You rarely ever saw them for sale when he was in power....

Perspectives.(quotations )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Byline: Sources: BBC, International Herald Tribune (2), BBC, Reuters (2) "We will not take part in the funeral of freedom." A cell-phone text message circulated in Iran to protest against a clampdown on reformists in last week's...

Periscope.(various news)
March 1, 2004... Byline: John Barry and Frank Brown, Frank Brown, William Underhill and Michael Hastings, Stefan Theil and Michael Meyer, Mark Hosenball, Aaron Clark, Karin Bennett, Sarah Sennott, Elise Soukup, David Ansen, Nicki Gostin RUSSIA ...

Technology: Self-Development.(Product/Service Evaluation)
March 1, 2004... Byline: Malcolm Beith Raise your hand if you own a digital camera. Now raise your other hand (and you might as well drop your camera) if you don't know how to make decent prints. This year, shutterbugs will save an estimated 73 billion...

Mail Call; Migrants and Money.(Letter to the Editor)
March 8, 2004... Readers of our Jan. 19 cover story on migrant workers were uniformly critical of Western policies. One accused the EU of "a colonial mentality"; another said, "the EU's hypocritical policy sustains poverty." A third wrote, "the social cost paid...

Brain Gain; Sending workers abroad doesn't mean squandering minds. For many countries, diaspora talent is the key to success.(Cover Story)
March 8, 2004... Byline: Mac Margolis, With Sudip Mazumdar, Craig Simons, Kim Gurney, Maureen Chigbo, Liat Radcliffe and Jaime Cunningham Toxoplasmosis is a nasty disease. Left untreated, it can cause birth defects, miscarriages, even blindness. So in...

Bad to Worse; Hard times give birth to dark humor--and much angst.
March 8, 2004... Byline: Stefan Theil Usually, Germany's lenten carnival season means nonstop parties and good-natured cheer. This year, however, joking and laughing has turned into derision and scoffs. In the parades that wound their way through the...

Olympic Insecurity; The Athens Games will be the biggest--and most expensive--peacetime security operation ever. It's not on schedule.
March 8, 2004... Byline: Melinda Liu and Toula Vlahou, With Melissa Roberts in Sydney It's less than half a year before the Summer Games--and the security folks are jumpy. Police in a neighboring country just busted a gang of illegal immigrants who had...

Fear Factor; The island's election is still anybody's race. But for the once-dominant KMT, the stakes couldn't be higher.(the Kuomintang party, Taiwan)
March 8, 2004... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Tim Culpan The Kuomintang's message in Taiwan's upcoming presidential election is more cautionary than inspirational. A vote for the once-dominant party, dramatically tossed from power just four years ago, is a...

Looking for a Real Leader; When it comes to talent at the top, Indonesians have to wait.
March 8, 2004... Byline: Joe Cochrane, With Peter Jannsen When she was appointed regent of the central Java district of Kebuman four years ago, Rustriningsih did a very unusual thing for an Indonesian official: she refused to take bribes. Instead, the...

Business: Korea Goes Bust; The Asia-wide spread of credit-card culture is going disastrously wrong in only one country, South Korea, which faces its second debt crisis in five years.
March 8, 2004... Byline: B. J. Lee Cho Gyung Hee says she sold her soul for a toothbrush. One summer day in 2000 the 30-year-old mother of two sons was accosted on a Seoul street by recruiters who offered her a free electric toothbrush if she would sign up...

Justifying the Means; A new book makes a case for the Dresden bombing.(Dresden, by Frederick Taylor)(Book Review)
March 8, 2004... Byline: William Underhill On a clear February night in 1945, a first wave of Allied bombers struck at Dresden in eastern Germany. By the following evening, British and American warplanes had dropped 4,500 tons of incendiaries and high...

Taking A Closer Look; Governments the world over are watching citizens like never before. But are we any safer for it?(Cover Story)
March 8, 2004... Byline: Fred Guterl And William Underhill, With Jonathan Adams, Karen Breslau, Barbie Nadeau, Sarah Schafer, Stefan Theil and Eric Pape John Daugman will tell you that his most significant inventions are devices that help unscramble brain...

Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear; Europeans stand to lose more of their privacy and civil liberties than Americans.(Cover Story)
March 8, 2004... Byline: Jeffrey Rosen, Rosen is the author of "The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age." The United States is now leading Europe and the rest of the world into a new age of surveillance. In the wake of 9/11,...

Interview: Double Loyalties; Historian Simon Schama may be better known in his native England, but he prefers living and working in a bigger pond.(Interview)(Cover Story)
March 8, 2004... Byline: Susan H. Greenberg British-born historian Simon Schama, 59, came to America in 1979. Currently a professor at New York's Columbia University and art critic for The New Yorker, Schama is also working on a television adaptation of...

Portrait of the Daughter; Two works seek to reclaim the legacy of Lucia Joyce.(Book Review)
March 8, 2004... Byline: Tara Pepper When Samuel Beckett died in 1989, a striking snapshot of a feral woman dancing, clad from head to toe in silver fish scales, was found among his papers. Beckett had kept this memento of his affair with James Joyce's...

The Art of Tea; Move over, latte fans. Tea drinkers can be just as pretentious. But $50 for a single cup?
March 8, 2004... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Rowin Tsang is perched on a wooden stool in the dim light of Hong Kong's Ngan Ki Heung Tea Co. store, taking careful notes. She is listening to a lecture in Cantonese by Wong Hon-kin, a tea specialist with the...

A One-Way Ticket; Fed up with political and economic restrictions, Iranian expat workers are among the least likely in the world to return home.(Cover Story)
March 8, 2004... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh Not every country benefits when workers go abroad in search of jobs. Each year approximately 200,000 Iranians, many of them highly educated, leave the country for the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia....

Sheik al-Hakim; 'Nothing Is Cast in Stone'.(Interview)
March 8, 2004... Byline: Rod Nordland Ayatollahs, like popes, do not give press interviews. But they do want to be heard. Grand Ayatollah Muhammed Hussein Saeed al-Hakim is one of Iraq's top four ayatollahs, who make up the howza , the supreme religious...

The Diva Is a Porn Star!(Berlin Film Festival)
March 8, 2004... Byline: Michael Meyer Years ago, when I lived in Berlin, I looked forward to an annual rite of spring. Each May Day, skinheads in the gritty Kreuzberg district would arise to celebrate the workers' holiday. If the weather was warm and...

Undone by Destiny; The CIA's effort to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, in the months before 9/11, was hurt by a lack of urgency.(Excerpt)
March 8, 2004... Byline: Steve Coll, From GHOST WARS: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CIA, AFGHANISTAN, AND BIN LADEN, FROM THE SOVIET INVASION TO SEPTEMBER 10, 2001, by Steve Coll. To be published by Penguin Press. [c]2004 by Steve Coll. By summer 1999, only...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: The Washington Post, BBC, Reuters, Mainichi Daily News, Reuters, New York Daily News, Variety, New York Times "No way, Jose." Haitian opposition leader Guy Philippe, on whether his forces...

Periscope.(Interview)
March 8, 2004... Byline: Adam Piore, Dan Ephron, Melinda Liu and Sarah Schafer, Frank Brown, Michael Hastings, Yasmine Mohseni, Rebecca Sinderbrand, Lindsey Gerdes, Lorraine Ali, Jennifer Barrett ESPIONAGE Listen Up, Everyone There was outrage at...

Tip Sheet.
March 8, 2004... Byline: Ginanne Brownell, Jaime Cunningham STYLE The Art Of The Craft By Ginanne Brownell If there was ever any question that crafts had arrived, it disappeared last year when the cross-dressing London-based potter Grayson...

How the Camera Sometimes Lies.(Photographing the Holocaust by Janina Struk)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Ginanne Brownell In one photo, a group of men and a boy stand naked before a ditch as soldiers point rifles at them. 'Sniatyn--tormenting Jews before execution. II.V. 1943,' reads the caption in Polish. But the caption is almost...

Travels Through Hell; A reporter's account of the last days of the Milosevic regime.(Madness Visible by Janine di Giovanni)(Book Review)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Joshua Hammer On the evening of March 24, 1999, after the collapse of last-ditch diplomacy, NATO planes commenced bombing targets in Belgrade and in the ethnic Albanian province of Kosovo. The outbreak of war set off an orgy of...

Mail Call: A Long, Healthful Life.(Letter to the Editor)
March 15, 2004... Most readers of our Jan. 26 cover package on healthy living rejected trendy diets. An anorexic wrote, "The years starvation could add to life are irrelevant if they make one feel deprived, hungry and cold all the time." Suggested another...

No More Excuses; Putin now has the power. It's time to deliver on his promises.(Russian president Vladimir Putin)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Christian Caryl and Frank Brown In the halcyon days when Vladimir Putin visited his aunts and uncles here, the tiny village of Pominovo was a place of hope. "There was a store, a bar, a club," recalls Vladimir Kuvarin, himself once...

Boom Times--But No Jobs; Gaudy economic-growth numbers can't solve a simmering unemployment crisis.(India)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Jason Overdorf In general elections next month, India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is campaigning, Reagan-like, on the theme that the country is "shining." These are, in fact, heady days for India, which has witnessed average...

'A Totalitarian Regime'; After a third recall vote is blocked, critics lash out at Chavez.(President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Phil Gunson For the past 18 months, Venezuela's political opposition has sought the ouster of leftist President Hugo Chavez through constitutional means, struggling to force a referendum on his rule. But after the National...

A Risky World; With recovery spreading, and the markets booming, why are investors so apprehensive about where to put all this easy money?(Cover Story)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller Tony Dye stood his ground in the dizzy spring of 2000. Distrusting the prices of tech stocks, the Phillips & Drew investment strategist refused to buy. That April he was ushered out the door--and we all know what...

Interview: Beware the Consensus; A certified optimist says stampeding small investors may produce a new 'top,' as in 2000.(securities analyst Byron Wien)(Interview)(Cover Story)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Tony Emerson Wall Street contrarian Byron Wien is enjoying a bull run. His annual list of 10 surprises for the coming year accurately foretold a big 2003 for the U.S. market and economy. This year he put out a parallel list of...

How to Buy China; Want to play the rise of a new superpower but don't know how? Here's the key: oil.(Cover Story)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Marc Faber, Faber is a Hong Kong-based investment adviser and publisher of the monthly Gloom Boom and Doom report. The industrialization of China is progressing at breakneck speed, creating a voracious new consumer economy that...

Slouching Toward Recovery; The sick men of the industrial world enjoy surprise bull markets. But only one has legs.(economic recovery, Germany, Japan)(Cover Story)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller Germany and Japan have shared many things in recent years. The labels "sluggish" and "inflexible" come to mind. So do phrases like "weak business confidence" and "delayed corporate restructuring." For a few...

Getting Burned Abroad; How debt crises like Argentina's threaten the wealth of German dentists and Italian pensioners.(Cover Story)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Rana Foroohar, With Barbie Nadeau in Rome Claudio Pugelli has one of the toughest jobs in Italy these days. As head of Committee Argentina, it is the Roman lawyer's duty to tell thousands of aging Italian pensioners that they may...

Making Money Off Money; Day traders are now swapping currency, and some experts say their new game is not as crazy as it sounds.(Cover Story)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Barbara Tierney It used to be that only the biggest banks traded foreign currencies. No longer. One of the most complicated and high-risk investments is now open to the little guy--and to bids as low as $250. The same class of...

Investor's Dilemma; The only way to ensure a safe retirement is to take high risks now.(Roger Hertog on global markets and investment advice)(Interview)(Cover Story)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Tony Emerson Roger Hertog says, sure, investors are a bit emotional right now. But they'll be a lot more emotional if they make decisions that ruin their retirement. As vice chairman of Alliance Capital, which manages some $485...

The Analysts: Keeping the Bulls Running; Can investors get an honest stock tip on (or off) Wall Street?(Cover Story)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Adam Piore Back in 1999, Tyco chief executive L. Dennis Kozlowski went on TV to call for an investigation of "false, unfounded and malicious rumors" of accounting irregularities at his firm, and to attack the independent analyst...

Safer Than It Seems; World markets have weathered random acts of terror.(Cover Story)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Sassan Ghahramani, Ghahramani is chief operating officer at Medley Global Advisers in New York. I was anxious when I arrived at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport recently and handed my passport to a surprisingly young female...

Painted Poems; As the Pompidou makes clear, Joan Miro waged war on art--and won.(Biography)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Dana Thomas "I am sure that we, the young people who had the good fortune to be born after Picasso... have a goal of capital importance," Spanish artist Joan Miro wrote to his friend the poet Roland Tual in 1922. "We are living in...

Epic Feat; Staging an obscure Sulawesi tale.(Indonesian epic tale adapted for the stage)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop It's hardly surprising that few people outside the Indonesian island of Sulawesi have ever heard of the epic tale of "Sureq Galigo." The story, about a pair of golden twins descended from the gods who...

Engine of Growth; Those who pray for a tech-stock revival should look beyond the Google IPO, and search the X Internet.(the concept of an "extended Internet")(Industry Overview)(Cover Story)
March 15, 2004... Byline: George F. Colony, Colony is the CEO of Forrester Research, Inc. What's the secret to putting tech back into growth mode? While consumers continued to buy DVDs, flat-panel TVs and other new technologies during the recession,...

Haiti's Zero-Sum Game; To fix a troubled nation, America and others will have to disarm the rebels, then alter a culture of poverty and corruption.
March 15, 2004... Byline: Joseph Contreras, With Adam Piore in New York He was the king of Port-au-Prince for two days--a boyish, clean-shaven figure in black fatigues who proclaimed himself Haiti's new military supremo after former president Jean-Bertrand...

On Your Mark, Get Ready... Don't laugh. This is the future of U.S. weaponry.(United States Army encourages private development of robotic vehicles)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Brad Stone You definitely want to buckle in," Bruce Hall says from the driver's seat of his dusty, green Toyota Tundra, fingers poised at five black switches near the windshield where the map light used to be. We're on a circular...

Hans Blix; Vindication For a Skeptic.(former chairman of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission)(weapons inspections in Iraq)(Interview)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Stryker McGuire Hans Blix, 75, the former chairman of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, led the hunt for WMD in the run-up to war in Iraq. Sidelined after American and British troops invaded the country,...

Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?(charitable giving in America)(Column)
March 15, 2004... Byline: Conor O'Clery In most American cities you can't avoid being confronted by people down on their luck, asking if you can spare a dime. I often agonize over what to give them--a few coins, maybe, or a $10 bill. The change amounts to...

Mail Call: Spain's Success.
March 22, 2004... Our Feb. 2 cover story on Spain's economic recovery pleased most readers even though some of them qualified their praise. Said one, "You failed to mention our king." Wrote another, "The boom derives from the EU's financial transfers." A third...

Unchartered Territory; Elections in Taiwan and Hong Kong are testing Beijing's patience for reform on the margins.
March 22, 2004... Byline: George Wehrfritz, With Alexandra A. Seno in Hong Kong, Sarah Schafer in Beijing and Tim Culpan in Taipei Friend or foe? When Beijing weighs the contenders in upcoming elections in Taiwan and Hong Kong, telling the difference gets...

Sports: Olympian Obstacles; This year the Summer Games return to Greece. Will its new government be ready?
March 22, 2004... Byline: Mark Starr and Michael Meyer, With Toula Vlahou in Athens Next week a torch shall be passed. It will be lit on the hallowed grounds of Olympia, site of the ancient Olympics 3,000 years ago, and then be run to the stadium in Athens...

Viewpoint: Democratic Contagion? The political progress in Taiwan and Hong Kong is good news. But only democratization within China will change China.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Minxin Pei, Pei is director of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Ever since Taiwan began its transition to democracy in the late 1980s, optimists have hoped that its opening would serve as a...

Two Americas? A massive wave of Hispanic immigration is raising questions about identity and integration.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Joseph Contreras, With Jennifer Ordonez in Los Angeles and Arian Campo-Flores in Miami In his provocative 1996 book "The Clash of Civilizations," Samuel P. Huntington argued that culture would replace ideology as the principal...

Needed: A New Model; Mexican immigration is different from past mass migrations.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Jorge Castaneda, Castaneda was the foreign minister of Mexico from 2000 to 2003 and teaches at New York University. In his recently published book excerpt on Hispanic, and particularly Mexican, immigration to the United States,...

Generation Broke; Europeans are discovering what Americans know all too well: the seductive power and personal risk of easy credit.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Carla Power, With Emily Flynn in London, Stefan Theil in Berlin, Barbie Nadeau in Rome and Marie Valla in Paris America is the land of the credit-guzzling consumer living in the now, and Europe is the realm of thrifty savers taking...

Biomarkers: 'Doctor on a Stick'; One day physicians may have a universal diagnostic test that can identify most human diseases.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Clint Witchalls Despite all the methods doctors have of probing the human body, diagnostic medicine can be a primitive art. Appendicitis, for instance, can still make an inexperienced doctor break out in a sweat. You can check...

Pushing the Buy Button; Companies are starting to turn to powerful brain-scan technology in order to figure out how we choose which products to purchase.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Clint Witchalls The woman lying in the huge, doughnut-shaped magnet having her brain scanned is perfectly healthy. Radiologists at the Neurosense clinic in south London aren't looking for lesions or lumps. Instead, they've set up a...

Of Mice And Eggs; New research could extend childbearing age.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Temma Ehrenfeld One of the most painful losses many women who've been diagnosed with cancer have to endure is the inability to bear a child. Chemotherapy, after all, kills cells that grow, and growth is what the apparatus of...

Go, Grandma; There's a reason women live well past menopause.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Jaime Cunningham If you thought your grandmother's main function in life was to bake you brownies, think again. Scientists have long puzzled over whether there's any reason, evolutionarily speaking, for women to live long past...

A Breath of Fresh Air; With their passion and anger, Germany's creative young immigrants are revitalizing the country's cultural scene.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Stefan Theil "Head on" is one of the most startlingly fresh films to come out of Germany in recent years. A gritty and violent love story about two young Germans of Turkish descent, it crackles with the tension between the...

Rap With a Conscience; Activist groups thrive in Senegal's best neighborhoods.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Tara Pepper, With Ismaila Dieng in Dakar Daara J is an unlikely rap group: three middle-class boys from Senegal's capital, Dakar, who met while studying accounting at their local high school. Yet their funky, beguiling album...

In Her Dad's Footsteps; Uncovering the wartime Joe.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Andrew Nagorski He was a man without a past and I failed to notice," British writer Annette Kobak notes in "Joe's War: My Father Decoded" (444 pages. Alfred A. Knopf ). As the subtitle suggests, her book--part biography, part...

Shaking the System; South Korean politics can make for rough sport. But there's no reason the rules should make it even worse.
March 22, 2004... Byline: William Dobson and B. J. Lee No one ever said being the president of South Korea was easy. Syngman Rhee, the country's first president, died in exile. Strongman Park Chung Hee's rule ended with his assassination. Of the country's...

Convicting the Wrong CEO; The Martha case is a distraction from Wall Street's real crimes.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Allan Sloan, Sloan is NEWSWEEK's Wall Street editor. I'm not a Martha Stewart fan. I am congenitally unstylish, and I've spent my career trying to help ordinary people get a fair shake from the connected: the people like Stewart....

Sheik Fadlallah; 'We Have Reservations'.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Rod Nordland Sheik Muhammed Hussein Fadlallah is the senior religious leader of Lebanon's 2 million Shia and spiritual leader of Hizbullah. Still classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, Hizbullah has more...

Ready, Aim, Fire!
March 22, 2004... Byline: David Ray Growing up in Portland, Oregon, my kids spent rainy afternoons playing at Burger King. For $1 they could climb around in a plastic "fun house," all soft padding and colored balls of spongy foam, disinfected with the same...

Perspectives.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: Fox News, Guardian, BBC, L.A. Times, BBC, Reuters "Today, they killed me and every Spaniard." A handwritten message left outside Madrid's Atocha Station, where residents mourned the victims...

Periscope.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Matthew Craft and Richard Ernsberger Jr., Joe Cochrane, Frank Brown, MARK HOSENBALL, Rana Foroohar, Jonathan Adams, Zoran Cirjakovic, Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau, Mark Russell, Marc Peyser and Allison Samuels, Nicki Gostin MIDDLE...

Tip Sheet.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Michelle Jana Chan, Ginanne Brownell, Alison Brooks, Julie Scelfo HOTELS Label Over Location For the truly status-conscious, it's not where you go that matters; it's where you stay. A handful of luxury hotel chains offer...

Martha's Next Fight: Keeping Her Job.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Byline: Keith Naughton and Barney Gimbel with Lindsey Gerdes, Martha Stewart is working hard to stay out of prison. After a visit to the probation office last Monday (to submit a urine sample, among other things), she sped off to tell the...

Mail Call; Deceit, U.S. Style?(Letter to the Editor)
March 29, 2004... Readers were up in arms over the subject of our Feb. 9 cover story--the role of faulty intelligence leading to the Iraq war. Many were "outraged by an immoral, unjustifiable war." One defined WMD as "Wanton Mass Deception." Insisted another,...