Newsweek International articles from March 2007

Newsweek International archives from March 2007

Mail Call: Death by Hanging.(Letter to the editor)
March 5, 2007... Readers of our Jan. 8 cover story on Saddam's death vented their anger at the event. Of the images, one wrote, "Shockingly poor taste." Agreed another, "Like a Qaeda video." A third attributed "the hasty execution to Bush's blessing--Iraq's...

Bound to Fail; Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has taken on 'mission impossible.' Everything about The United Nations conspires against him.(Cover story)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Sebastian Mallaby (Mallaby directs the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.) On a celebrated Thursday in April 1953, the first secretary-general of the United Nations greeted his...

Finding Gold in Your Trash; This is a tale of two dumps. What we throw away is worth riches. All that it takes is a nose for opportunity.
March 5, 2007... Byline: William Underhill (With Stefan Theil in Berlin and Toula Vlahou in Athens) Only the scavenging seagulls love Ano Liossia. By some reckoning, the mountainous heap of unsorted trash in the Athens suburbs ranks as Europe's largest...

Beleaguered and Besieged; Turkey's pro-European elite is the target of a growing wave of violent ultra-nationalism.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Owen Matthews (With Sami Kohen in Istanbul) The threats have been arriving daily, often via e-mail. "You traitors to Turkey have had your day," reads one. "Stop prostituting yourself and your country to foreigners or you will face...

The Good Son Falters; Shinzo Abe, Japan's nationalist prime minister, defied expectations with a strong start abroad. But now he's run into trouble at home, as his poll numbers plummet and his government slips out of control.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Christian Caryl and Akiko Kashiwagi The man who runs Japan's ruling party has seen his share of intrigues and scandals. But on Feb. 18, Hidenao Nakagawa, chief of the Liberal Democratic Party, found himself in an unprecedented...

Stuck on the Sidelines; Why Japan is sitting out the new nuclear deal with North Korea.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Yoichi Funabashi (Funabashi is chief diplomatic correspondent for the Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo and an International Council member of the Asia Society. His new book, "The Peninsula Question," is forthcoming.) Lost in the press...

Closure for Cambodia? Thirty years on, the Khmer Rouge trials risk collapse.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Erika Kinetz (With Joe Cochrane) Nearly 10 years after the Cambodian government first asked for help setting up a court to try leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime, it has yet to hold a single hearing. Washington refuses to...

The Perils Of Order; Being messy, both at home and in foreign policy, may have its own advantages.
March 5, 2007... Byline: David H. Freedman In a small room at the University of British Columbia, students wearing headphones are listening to noise. No, it's not an indie band's shred solo blasting through an iPod. The students are participating in an...

Foe Turned Friend; Indian generic-drug makers once bedeviled Big Pharma; now they may be its best hope for success.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Jason Overdorf (With Silvia Spring in London) India used to be big pharma's worst nightmare. Loose patent laws and a glut of talented scientists made that country the world capital for generics. As quickly as companies like...

A Thousand Threats; Cancer-causing chemicals don't work alone, but in tandem. A scientist argues for increased vigilance.(Viewpoint essay)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Devra Davis (Davis is director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. Her book "The Secret History of the War on Cancer," from which this work is adapted, will be published in October...

Bordeaux Meets Beijing; China's eager oenophiles are reviving the flagging French wine industry. So what if they mix their cru with Coke?
March 5, 2007... Byline: Eric Pape China's novice wine drinkers can be a pretty gauche bunch. To hide the actual taste of foreign wines, some dilute their Bordeaux with ice or, worse, Coca-Cola. After business people raise their glasses for a toast, they...

Muslims Fighting Evil; "The 99" is the first comic-book series to feature Islamic superheroes. Can they defeat prejudice?
March 5, 2007... Byline: Florence Villeminot Until she was kidnapped, Dana Ibrahim was an average 18-year-old living in the United Arab Emirates, attending university and hanging out with her friends. Then she was thrown into a dark hole in the earth and...

The Wedding Shortage; In the Middle East, marriage is in deep crisis, for financial reasons.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Navtej Singh Dhillon (Dhillon is the Director of the Middle East Youth Initiative at the Wolfensohn Center for Development.) Hizbullah may be calling protesters into the streets of Beirut. But Mazen Younes, a 26-year-old Lebanese...

Letter From the Editor...(Editorial)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Tony Emerson, Managing Editor The United Nations remains a great place to indoctrinate one's kids in the ideals of brotherly love, and I recommend the tour. But don't show them the ideals in action until they are old enough to...

Recycled and Wow.(London Fashion Week)(green fashion design)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Kenzie Burchell While Giorgio Armani dabbles in hemp jeans and Stella McCartney showcases sustainable ecofriendly fashion on the catwalk, some hot new designers are focusing their entire lines around being green. Last month London...

HOTEL LE REGINA WARSAW.(Hotel review)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Ginanne Brownell Located steps away from the Old Town Square, Le Regina was recently named the most prestigious hotel in Poland--no small feat given the growing number of boutique hotels and upscale chains transforming the...

Four Hours In...(Zurich, Switzerland)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Byline: ARLENE GETZ Spreading out from the banks of the Limmat and the Zurichsee, Switzerland's commercial center is both walkable and picturesque. The shopping's good, too. WALK through the Old Town, home to boutiques, bars,...

Reading Leaves.(tea)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Byline: ESTHER BINTLIFF Forget grandma's milky cuppa. Today's "infusiasts" take their tea loose-leaf, sun-dried and hand-processed. At TeaSmith in London, experts advise on the exotic selection of flavors from the floral to the...

Room Exercises.(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Sana Butler Drained after a long day on the road? Don't call room service; call a personal trainer. Langham Palace Hong Kong Hotel conducts group workout sessions, for which they'll send you an e-mail reminder (from $85 an hour;...

City of Ethnic Delights.(Paris)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Byline: GINNY POWER Eating in Paris often conjures thoughts of fresh baguettes, Camembert and steak au poivre. But there's so much more than that. The authoritative new "The Ethnic Paris Cookbook" (published by DK) not only provides great...

Perspectives.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Quotation sources: ABC News, New York Times, BBC, Reuters, Daily Mail "Can you see any vacancies? The door is closed. " Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, 83, saying he won't resign despite an economic crisis that has triggered...

Political Pullout.(Britain's withdrawal of troops from Iraq)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Stryker McGuire, Richard Wolffe and Babak Dehghanpisheh In public, British and U.S. officials say Britain's withdrawal of troops from southern Iraq is a sign of success. But that wasn't the private reaction when the Brits first...

The Solution.(political alliances in Pakistan)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Byline: RON MOREAU AND ZAHID HUSSEIN THE PROBLEM: It's been a tough 2007 for Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf. With Islamic extremist attacks on the rise, the beleaguered prez is in desperate need of moderate allies to help him...

By the Numbers.(tourism during Chinese New Year)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... During Chun Yun, the 40-day period straddling the Lunar New Year, China hits the road. This year, rising prosperity has resulted in more Chinese travelers than ever. 2.17: Billions of trips taken by Chinese durintg Chun Yun, mostly to...

White Heat.(trends of inflation in India)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Rana Foroohar Economic overheating was supposed to be a China problem. But India is heating up, too--and fast. Overall wholesale prices are growing at their fastest rate in two years. What's more, policymakers seem unable to...

The Solution.(United Kingdom Forensic Science Service Footwear Intelligence Tool)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Jessica Bennett THE PROBLEM: Sherlock Holmes had an encyclopedic knowledge of footprints, but that's not how it works for real detectives. Identifying footprints left at crime scenes stalls many an investigation. THE FIX:...

The Price of Caring.(study finds more social workers suffer posttraumatic stress disorder than general population)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Byline: William Lee Adams We know thousands of the troops returning from Iraq will need help to fend off the nightmares they've lived through there. But so, too, may many of the therapists who have experienced those traumas secondhand. A...

A Vital Deadline.(private land development rules and protection of endangered animal species)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Barrett Sheridan America's endangered Species Act, passed in 1973, outlawed activities likely to harm endangered animals. Banning development on private land--which is home to 90 percent of endangered beasts--was one new measure...

Reality Check.(hybrid cars pose more hazards for blind pedestrians, according to a report)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Hybrid cars may be more dangerous than previously assumed. The U.S. National Federation of the Blind is requesting that automakers redesign hybrids to make more noise--because they're too quiet for blind pedestrians to hear. The NFB wants a...

Books: Mob Narrative.(wiki-novel)
March 5, 2007... Byline: John Ness A million monkeys in a million years might be able to type out Shakespeare's canon, but can a few thousand literary wannabes pull together a serviceable novel? Not if Penguin UK's new "A Million Penguins" Web site, which...

Robotic Buzzing.(using robotic insects to study navigation)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Rupali Arora Insects are pretty good at navigating, and seem to know how high they are flying. But how? Dr. Nicolas Franceschini, a roboticist at the French National Research Agency, believes that insects regulate altitude by...

Mail Call: Wreaking Havoc.(Letter to the editor)
March 12, 2007... Our Jan. 15 cover story on bioinvading species led readers to share their views. Wrote one, "Aliens invade habitats already destroyed by man." Another agreed: "The most successful bioinvader? Us humans!" Emergency in Bangladesh Your...

Hollow Tipped Threat; Russia plays at being a great power. Lately it has been rattling its saber--with more swagger than actual bite.
March 12, 2007... Byline: Owen Matthews (With Anna Nemtsova in Moscow and John Barry in Washington) Stolid, ramrod-stiff Sergei Ivanov is generally not one to inspire rapturous applause. Yet that's just what Russia's former Defense minister did last month...

A One-Year Wonder; Germany is booming, pulling the rest of Europe along. Or is it?
March 12, 2007... Byline: Brian Wesbury (Wesbury is chief economist for First Trust Advisors in Illinois.) Here's an interesting fact from supposedly sclerotic Europe. The German economy outperformed the United States in 2006, with real GDP up 3.7 percent...

The Lost Youth Of Europe; The continent's boomers are retiring, leaving a bitter legacy for the generation that comes next, which increasingly feels locked out of the European dream.(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Byline: William Underhill and Tracy McNicoll (With Jacopo Barigazzi in Milan and Kenzie Burchell in London) It's election time in France, and the promises are flowing fast. If you believe the candidates, young voters are in line for a fat...

Bush Returns to Basics; Eager for success somewhere, the U.S. president is going south of the border. But is it too little, too late?
March 12, 2007... Byline: Joseph Contreras George W. Bush heads to Latin America this week, on his longest-ever tour of the region as president, and it's pretty clear what's on his agenda. In five countries, Bush will meet leaders with something in common:...

The Carbon Folly; Policymakers have settled on 'emissions trading' as their favorite global-warming fix. But it isn't working.
March 12, 2007... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat (With Chris Stowers in Raipur) Global warming isn't the only debate that may be over. Governments and policymakers around the world also seem to have settled on a solution. "A responsible approach to solving this...

The Shanghai Tell; Last week's dip in China's markets has left Beijing more anxious about its economic control.
March 12, 2007... Byline: Sarah Schafer (With Melinda Liu in Beijing) Depending on whom you asked, it started with a Chinese government order to local banks to stop lending to speculators. Or with a rumored new capital-gains tax. Or with inexperienced...

Reviving Lacroix; After years of creating unwearable clothes and unbearable losses, the French designer label has acquired savvy new American owners and a fresh, streamlined look. Just ask Helen Mirren.(Biography)
March 12, 2007... Byline: Dana Thomas For 20 years, the name Christian Lacroix has stood for two things in fashion: complicated clothes and capital losses. But that's about to change. Three American brothers who bought Lacroix from the French luxury group...

Leaving Lebanon Behind; An Israeli director is honored for his unsparing new film.(Joseph Cedar)
March 12, 2007... Byline: Joanna Chen At the Berlin Film Festival last month, Joseph Cedar looked more like a bashful schoolboy than a director to rival Robert De Niro and Steven Soderbergh. So it was especially surprising when the Israeli filmmaker beat...

Scars Of War.(civil war in Liberia)(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY TIM HETHERINGTON The brutal civil war in Liberia--the West African state originally founded by former U.S. slaves--is over, and the country is slowly healing. But the scars of the conflict--which pitted ragtag gangs...

The Last Word: David Rubenstein; New Breed of Barbarian.(Interview)
March 12, 2007... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat The so-called barbarians--private-equity firms with their eyes on big targets--are no longer at the gates. They're knocking them down. Last month, Blackstone bought out New York real-estate group Equity Office...

Goldilocks Has Real Legs; Most analysts think there is something irrational about the way the world is working now. It's as if they skipped the lessons of the 1960s.(global economy)
March 12, 2007... Byline: Ruchir Sharma (Sharma is head of global emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.) Financial markets and economic conditions continue to defy conventional wisdom. The global economy refuses to slow down, powered by...

A Taste Of Lima.(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Byline: Joseph Contreras During my years of traipsing around Latin America, I have always regarded Lima as one of the underrated gastronomic capitals of the hemisphere. There's nothing like unwinding at a seaside eatery in one of the...

Hot Spot: Malmaison Oxford, England.(Hotel review)
March 12, 2007... Byline: William Underhill Time was when no one stayed at the Malmaison for pleasure--and unlucky guests might count their stays in decades, not days. For more than 140 years the imposing block served as the city's jail. That was before the...

Bookish Mood.(independent book stores)(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Byline: Kenzie Burchell No online book-seller can compete with these classic independent bookshops for ambience: London's famed Daunt Books specializes in travel guides and world classics, nestled on oak shelves (dauntbooks.co.uk )....

The Writing On the Wall.(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Byline: Dulci Pitagora Wallpaper that actually goes on walls is beginning to resemble the computer-screen variety. Some of the latest trends include magnetic wallpaper for those who need constant change (magscapes.com ) and large-scale...

The Maximalist.(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... With 804 diamonds and a choice of rubies, sapphires or emeralds, the Limited Edition Mystery Masterpiece, a joint venture of Montblanc and Van Cleef & Arpels, is like a piece of crown jewelry that also happens to write. Only nine instruments...

Perspectives.(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Byline: Quotation sources: Reuters, BBC, Bloomberg, BBC, AP "I wanna see the flowers bloom, don't wanna go kaput-kaboom." The lyrics to "Push the Button," a song about nuclear annihilation nominated by Israelis as their entry in this...

Training New Recruits to Kill.(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Byline: Barrett Sheridan The suicide attack that nearly hit U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney last week may signal worse to come in Afghanistan. The Taliban announced recently that it has recruited hundreds of willing martyrs, who are now...

Emerging Evidence.(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Has Thailand fallen off the investment map? The recent coup by officers with a pastoral vision of a self-reliant nation is said to be scaring off investors. Last week the Finance minister resigned in protest. But look closer. Not all...

Big Man Walking.(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Byline: Elizabeth Dickinson On a continent infamous for Big Man rule, the United Nations is trying to push power to the villages. In a trial run in Tiby, Mali, the U.N. Millennium Village Project is granting the few hundred villagers...

Fact or Fiction.(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Americans are notoriously anti-smoking, but Barack Obama--an occasional puffer--is proving that smoking can still be sexy. MYTH: There's nothing more off-putting than the hoarse baritone of a smoker. FACT: Smoking does indeed dry out...

To Boldly Go ... On?(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Byline: Joshua Alston Fans of the "Star Trek" franchise love forward-looking stories, but for a while now they've had to live in the past. Trekkers flocked to Christie's auction house this past October, snapping up more than $7 million...

Navy Seals.(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Byline: Marc Bain and Jessica Ramirez The latest U.S. plan to boost security involves--dolphins and sea lions? The U.S. Navy recently announced it may use the animals to detect and seize seaborne attackers at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in the...

Reality Check.(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Doctors have long believed that children who went blind early in life had little hope of ever learning to see. But a new study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows just the opposite--that the brain remains malleable...

Help! Call 108!(Emergency Management Research Institute)(Company overview)
March 12, 2007... Byline: Clint Witchalls Being able to dial a toll-free number in an emergency is something most of the world takes for granted. The United States has had 911 since 1968 and Britain has had 999 since 1937. India, however, has had one number...

Rolling Power.(thin-film flexible solar panel by Fuji Electric Systems)(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Byline: Akiko Kashiwagi Conventional solar panels, which turn sunlight into electricity, are made of crystallized silicon, the same material used in computer chips. But silicon is expensive and the panels are heavy. Engineers at Fuji...

Mail Call: Midlife Blues.(Letter to the editor)
March 19, 2007... Our Jan. 22 Health for Life special on menopause garnered praise from readers. One who "more than welcomed it" added, "Your expose is just the tip of the iceberg." A depressed woman shared her remedy: "The answer is not calcium and vitamin D...

Endless Light; Crash? What crash? In the world's top cities, real estate has never been hotter.(Cover story)
March 19, 2007... Byline: Joseph Contreras and Emily Flynn Vencat Cedric Canas has been living the life of a handsomely paid expatriate for most of the past 12 years. The 33-year-old Spanish banker has spent time in both Boston and London, but it is New York...

Time To Decide; The United Nations will soon take up the thorny issue of Kosovo. Should it become independent? The answer is 'yes.'.
March 19, 2007... Byline: Morton Abramowitz (Abramowitz is a senior fellow at the Century Foundation and former president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.) Once again the Balkans are on the world docket. Few are paying attention, but the...

Sarko, the American? Not anymore. If you aspire to become president of France, it doesn't pay to be too friendly with the U.S.
March 19, 2007... Byline: Christopher Dickey (With Tracy McNicoll and Eric Pape in Paris) Rarely has a foreign dignitary--especially a French one--gushed so effusively about what's right with America. When Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy spoke at the...

A Tale of Two Numbers; India's new budget reveals a party still in love with bureaucracy.
March 19, 2007... Byline: Gurcharan Das (Das, the former CEO of Procter & Gamble India, is the author of "India Unbound.") On Feb. 28, India's ruling congress party-led coalition introduced its latest budget, aiming, according to Finance Minister P....

While Paris Sleeps; The engineers at the Metro have started an ambitious project to lead the world into an automated future.(Regie Autonome des Transports Parisiens, driverless metro rail service)
March 19, 2007... Byline: Benjamin Sutherland Even in a country that's long prided itself on its trains, the Paris Metro stands out. It's fast, easy to navigate, clean, inexpensive and, with 16 lines serving 297 stations, remarkably dense--leading many...

Making Room for Art; An Uffizi expansion aims to show more works to more people. But Florentines are fighting to preserve their city.(Uffizi Gallery)
March 19, 2007... Byline: Barbie Nadeau By 7 a.m. on a winter's day in the heart of medieval Florence, the queue for the Uffizi Gallery's ticket booth already winds around the block. Bundled against frigid winds off the nearby Arno River, thousands of...

Islam Got It First; The tiling in medieval Islamic architecture turns out to embody a mathematical insight that Westerners thought they had discovered only 30 years ago.
March 19, 2007... Byline: Mary Carmichael Ancient, closely held religious secrets; messages encoded on the walls of Middle Eastern shrines; the divine golden ratio--readers of a recent issue of the journal Science must have wondered if they'd mistakenly...

Thunder Mountain; Lush life on the world's most active volcano.
March 19, 2007... Byline: Barbie Nadeau The view from Punta la Bronzo Pizzeria on the upper reaches of the volcanic island of Stromboli is stunning. Tiny islands dot the turquoise sea in the distance, and dramatic cliffs tower above a black-sand beach...

Sopranos At the Cineplex; The Met is drawing new opera fans by broadcasting live to cinemas. Popcorn munching encouraged.(Metropolitan Opera)
March 19, 2007... Byline: Andrew Moravcsik The line for the Metropolitan Opera snakes around the corner. A white-haired society woman clad in velvet rushes in out of the winter rain, passing out-of-towners clutching handmade need a ticket signs. An older...

The House Divided; Buckle your seat belts: Airbus, the French-German champion of European industry, is headed for a breakup.(Company overview)
March 19, 2007... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat (With John David Sparks in New York) It's hard to believe that just a few years ago, Airbus was cracking open the champagne to claim victory over U.S. rival Boeing. Talk about celebrating too soon. Over the past...

The Last Word: Roger Searle; Dropping Into the Ocean.(Interview)
March 19, 2007... Byline: Ginanne Brownell Roger Searle is going down under--way under. Last week the Durham University geophysics professor and a group of fellow scientists set sail from Tenerife aboard the [pounds sterling]40 million research ship RSS...

China Exports Trouble, Too; The overall effects of a China slowdown could easily knock more than half a percentage point off global economic growth in 2007.
March 19, 2007... Byline: Stephen Roach (Roach is chief economist at Morgan Stanley.) China, the so-called factory of the world, has just produced its newest product--a global stock-market correction. The 9 percent plunge in the Chinese stock market late...

Holiday Shopping.(travel packages for shoppers)(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Byline: Sana Butler Some people go on holiday to lie on a beach or see ancient monuments. But for dedicated shopaholics, nothing says vacation like a concentrated spending spree. Forget the tan; they'd much rather flaunt the latest Prada...

Hot Spot: Borgo San Jacopo Ristorante Florence.(Restaurant review)
March 19, 2007... Byline: Barbie Nadeau Tired of trattorias? Italy's Renaissance city finally has a hip eatery. Tucked along the Arno River in the Bohemian district of Santo Spirito, this newcomer puts a modern spin on the city's medieval grandeur. ...

Tub With A View.(bath oils)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Byline: Lauren Mack Add personally drawn baths to the list of in-room amenities now available at top hotels. At the Hilton Sydney, bath masters will fill your tub with Energy Sensation, a lime, mint and rosemary essential oil ($100;...

The Maximalist.(Louis XIII Black Pearl from Remy Martin Amerique)(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... For that special little nightcap, try a bottle of this limited-edition Louis XIII Black Pearl cognac from Remy Martin. Only 786 decanters were drawn from a single 100-year-old tiercon, an oak barrel used for aging brandy. Made from 1,200...

Adventure: Boat Baja.(holidaying at Loreto)(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Byline: Paul Tolme With gentle waters, whales, abundant wildlife and 300 days of sunshine, Loreto is a prime location for kayaking Baja Mexico's Sea of Cortes. Paddle to Isla Danzantes and snorkel in a secluded inlet surrounded by...

Perspectives.
March 19, 2007... Byline: QUOTATION SOURCES: Reuters, BBC, New York Times, AP, New York Times "He seems like Columbus--[he thinks] he's discovering poverty." Venezuelan President Hugo ChAvez, on U.S. President George W. Bush's emphasis on empowering...

The Debunker.(Robert Mugabe faces opppose in Zimbabwe)(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... The CW has it that Zimbabwe is beyond salvation. But an internal power struggle within strongman Robert Mugabe's own party could actually bring about dramatic change. Key military leaders and members of Mugabe's ZANU-PF party are currently...

Russia: Killer Question.(critics of Vladimir Putin found dead)(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova Since last October, at least four critics of Russian President Putin have turned up dead or shot. Among them: American Kremlin scholar Paul Joyal. Shot, though not fatally, outside his Maryland...

Q&A: Drew Barrymore.(Interview)
March 19, 2007... Byline: Nicki Gostin Barrymore plays a neurotic lyricist in the romantic comedy "Music and Lyrics." She spoke to Nicki Gostin. Do you do your own singing in this movie? Yeah. I've always been the person who everyone either...

By the Numbers.(illegal killing of elephants)(Author abstract)
March 19, 2007... Illegal killing of elephants slowed after a 1990 global ban on ivory sales. But now rising wealth in Asia--where ivory jewelry remains popular--has put Africa's elephants in danger again.

Cleaner Carats.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Byline: Alicia Barney Those about to propose have always had to consider the four C's of engagement rings: cut, clarity, color and carats. Now there's a fifth: is it P.C.? Nineteen jewelers, including standards like Tiffany & Co., Ben...

Reality Check.(milk and dairy products easily digested by adult Europeans)(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... The majority of the world's population loses its ability to digest lactose--a sugar found in milk and dairy products--before reaching adulthood. But not northern Europeans, 90 percent of whom researchers at University College London believe...

Stealing Minutes.(hacking on voice over internet protocols)
March 19, 2007... Byline: Benjamin Sutherland The telephone industry has been in an upheaval ever since upstarts began competing with the big telecoms by sending voice calls over the Internet. Now even big firms use so-called voice over Internet protocol....