Newsweek International articles from May 2001

Newsweek International archives from May 2001

Mail Call.
May 7, 2001... Fareed Zakaria's April 2 column, suggesting that Macedonia might win peace by carving out an Albanian enclave, drew many diverse and animated responses. "Macedonia is not just another Balkan country waiting to explode," said one reader. Another...

Comrade Putin's New Russia.(Vladimir Putin)(Statistical Data Included)
May 7, 2001... Eighteen-year-old Andrei Korshunov doesn't remember much about the Soviet Union. But from what his parents tell him, it sounds pretty swell: there was no crime, there was little inflation and everyone had a job. Its cities were orderly and...

Whatever happened to... the communist party.(in Russia)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... You would expect Oleg Kulikov and his comrades in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) to be grateful to Vladimir Putin for resurrecting the ghosts of soviets past. But Kulikov, ideology chief for the party's Central Committee,...

Moldova's Red Revival.(Communist Party back in power)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 7, 2001... This is a revolution!" exclaims Ivan Ursu, a lifelong communist, surveying the banquet tables at the Inauguration of Moldova's new communist president. "And there wasn't even any shooting!" In Moldova, the party is partying again. Back in...

The Man in the Middle.(Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri)(Brief Article)(Interview)
May 7, 2001... Lebanon's Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, who came to Washington last week to meet with President George W. Bush, is walking a tightrope at home. While he tries to make Lebanon prosper, he must deal with Syria, which has troops stationed in his...

You Can't Please Everyone.(George W. Bush's first 100 days in office; international views)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... People in other countries thought they knew what to expect from George W. Bush. He was, after all, his father's son. Although the new president lacked his parent's long experience in world affairs, he was buffered by advisers from the previous...

Look Who's Talking.(government methods of gauging Chinese public opinion)
May 7, 2001... The war of words that has raged between Beijing and Washington over the past few weeks hasn't always been a matter of diplomatic nuance. "The United States would be foolish to send GIs to China just to die," warned one irate Chinese Netizen...

Hearing the Voice of The People at Last.(public opinion in China)(Brief Article)(Column)
May 7, 2001... To those long accustomed to viewing china as a repressive autocracy, the idea that public opinion might influence government policy sounds farfetched, if not utterly impossible. In their eyes, China's unelected rulers need not pay any heed to...

Looks Are Everything.(Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... In 1992 Japan's long-ruling liberal Democrats handed an important cabinet job to a member with a distinguished lineage. Junichiro Koizumi, then in his early 50s, followed in his grandfather's footsteps to head Japan's Post and...

War On Science.(Huntingdon Life Sciences; animal testing and medical research)
May 7, 2001... Signs in front of Huntingdon Life Sciences say "WELCOME" in seven languages, but the double security fence, the water-filled moat and the bales of razor wire tell a different story. Sixteen months ago this research firm in rural Cambridgeshire...

A Question Of Ethics.(animal testing and medical research)(Brief Article)(Column)
May 7, 2001... David Greybeard first showed me how fuzzy the distinction between animals and humans can be. Forty years ago I befriended David, a chimpanzee, during my first field trip to Gombe in Tanzania. One day I offered him a nut in my open palm. He...

Bigger or Faster?(Boeing and Airbus product development)(Statistical Data Included)
May 7, 2001... Former Boeing executive Tex Boullioun called the aircraft business "the sporty game," because you've got to place huge bets on new jetliners to win. A poker player, Boullioun would have loved the latest bids from the game's biggest rivals....

Hello, 'Good Bye!'.(British and American television programs)
May 7, 2001... Anne Robinson is a BBC cash cow dressed in black leather. Every week millions of Brits tune in to see her ritually humiliate guests on her hit game show, "Weakest Link." Part dominatrix and part nanny, the Robinson persona has spawned Web sites...

The Dragonfly Suit.(anti-gravity pilot suit, Libelle)
May 7, 2001... American F-16 fighter planes and Soviet-built MiG-29s will scream through the skies of Nevada next month in a furious series of supersonic dogfights. It won't be the first time. In previous Red Flag exercises in the skies above Nellis Air Force...

Dream Toys on Order.('Please Make It' Web site)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Koichiro Takizawa loves his Nissan Presage, so he thought it would be cool to have a scale model on his dashboard. After looking everywhere, he couldn't find one. Then he went to the Web site of Tanomu Tsukuttekure ("Please Make It") and posted...

Gorbachev on His Legacy.(Mikhail Gorbachev, interview)(Brief Article)(Interview)
May 7, 2001... Mikhail Gorbachev was in New York last week, promoting his new environmental group, Green Cross International. He spoke with NEWSWEEK's Jonathan Alter. Excerpts: ALTER: How are you holding up since your wife's death? GORBACHEV: I...

The Emperor's Same Old Clothes.(Junichiro Koizumi, newly elected Prime Minister;)(Liberal Democratic Party in Japan)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... When I covered Japan as a correspondent in the 1980s and 1990s, I used to like listening to the old Liberal Democrats out on the stump, or when they swilled cheap sake with the party faithful in local political clubs. Their spiel was...

Where Buffalo Roam.(land policy in the western United States)(Brief Article)(Column)
May 7, 2001... Six years ago I set out with my family to discover the American West. Our covered wagon was a Subaru, and we were resettling from Washington, D.C., to Colorado, home of the ragged peaks and boundless skies of the Rocky Mountains. Out here, I...

Germany's 'Kohlosseum'.(criticism of new government office building in Berlin)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... The tour guide jokes with passengers as the boat cruises up the Spree in Berlin. "This building is an exact copy of the train station in Baku," he quips, pointing toward a towering block of gray concrete vaguely suggesting a socialist monument....

Mbeki Takes On Some Old Comrades.(President Thabo Mbeki, South Africa)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... The announcement was a bombshell. South African Law and Order Minister Steve Tshwete, the country's top law-enforcement officer, went on television last week to describe a plot to oust, and possibly harm, President Thabo Mbeki. The suspects:...

Asia Comes to the Fore.(relations with the United States)(Brief Article)(Interview)
May 7, 2001... Jusuf Wanandi has been one of Asia's leading thinkers on regional and global issues for more than two decades. An Indonesian of Chinese descent, Wanandi is chairman of the supervisory board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies...

An Echo of an Alliance.(European relations with the United States)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Two surprises have emerged from George W. Bush's first hundred days in the White House. The biggest came when the world realized the new American president was following through on his campaign promises. That stunned Europeans and led to the...

E-Mail on the Fly.(Singapore Airlines Ltd. (Singapore))(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Last week Singapore Airlines upped the ante in the global race to provide passengers with all the comforts of the cubicle. The company became the first to introduce a new technology that allows faster and less expensive e-mail access from...

Perspectives.
May 7, 2001... "Probably wearing a red tie too many times."U.S. President George W. Bush, reflecting on his biggest mistake during the first 100 days "I want to say congratulations to Coach K. The reason I call him Coach K is because sometimes I have...

Oh, That Unsinkable Dollar!(United States currency)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... While most international currencies have been buffeted about by the world's choppy economic waters, the unsinkable U.S. dollar has just kept on sailing. Oddly enough, finance ministers at the annual IMF- World Bank meeting in Washington this...

No More U.S. 'Ambiguity' in East Asia.(George W. Bush's policy on Taiwan and China)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... If it sounded like Dubya was speaking off the cuff, he was. The United States will do "whatever it takes" to defend Taiwan, President Bush said last week--dropping 30 years of calculated "strategic ambiguity" about its intentions in any...

Guns?(military look in fashion)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing--except maybe fashion. Escalating Middle East violence and recent East-West standoffs seem to be bringing military chic to new heights of popularity--and creativity. Catwalks have been crawling with...

Myth-and-Mouth Disease.(United Kingdom)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Britain's tourist industry has been hit hard by foot-and-mouth disease. But fears could well be rooted in wild misunderstandings. Peri stomps on some common foot-and-mouth myths: Myth: No trespassing! The countryside is barred to visitors....

When Life Bowls You a Googly...(high suicide rate among cricket players)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... The snail-paced tea drinker's game of cricket wilts the will to live. That's the word from David Frith, author of a new book on the sport, who finds that the suicide rate among professional British cricketers is 70 percent higher than for the...

The U.S.-China Hacker Conflict.(online services subversion)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... There is no room for diplomacy in cyberspace. On Thursday the FBI warned that Chinese hackers may be preparing an organized, full-fledged assault on U.S. Web sites in early May. Tensions in cyberspace escalated shortly after the spy-plane...

Not Just a Webcam.(Logitech QuickCam Traveler)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
May 7, 2001... Believe it or not, people are still out there using Webcams to record their lives and broadcast them to the world using the Internet (scary statistic: industry experts estimate some 250,000 people around the world now have Webcams running in...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
May 14, 2001... Fighting Software Pirates Our April 9 report on software piracy prompted many readers to express their impassioned opinions on counterfeiting and on Microsoft. "Congratulations on your topnotch reporting," offered one letter writer, who...

The Knight Errant.(Italy's Berlusconi)
May 14, 2001... Silvio Berlusconi may be a media magnate, a billionaire, a target of endless probes and, quite possibly, Italy's next prime minister. But most of all, he's a "supersalesman," in the words of his leading political rival. And his favorite product...

'I Don't Think It's Playtime'.(interview with Francesco Rutelli)(Interview)
May 14, 2001... Francesco Rutelli, 46, made his reputation as the popular and effective mayor of Rome in the 1990s. But his Paul Newman good looks didn't hurt when Italy's left-wing Olive Tree coalition went looking for a standard-bearer in this year's...

The Peacemaker With Blood on His Hands.(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... He is an elected member of the new Northern Ireland Assembly and the province's [pound]75,000-a-year Education minister. With two office suites and a car and driver at his disposal, the high-school dropout and former butcher's apprentice runs a...

Very Dangerous Liaisons.(Wildlife in Australia)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... Two decades ago no one believed Lindy Chamberlain when she claimed a dingo had snatched her baby from a campsite in central Australia. She was vilified, convicted of murder and sentenced to life--before being released four years later, when the...

A Smuggler's Story.(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... With his blue blazer, neatly folded pocket square and clipped diction, Jonathan Tokeley-Parry seems every bit the "old-fashioned English gentleman" he considers himself. So it's a little surprising to learn that he's just been released after...

Blowing the Whistle.(People's Liberation Army of China continues to conduct business)
May 14, 2001... Standing trial in Hong Kong is a disorienting experience for 48-year- old Cheng Sui-wa. He cannot understand English, so he leans forward awkwardly to catch the whispers of his Mandarin interpreter. Both his defense attorney and the public...

An Arab In America.(Brief Article)(Column)
May 14, 2001... Sometimes I feel like part of a new experiment. I am an Arab-American, one of an estimated 2 million who are slowly becoming a recognized political and social force in the United States. Unlike many, I am not a new immigrant but rather the...

A Win for The Dismal Science.(behavioral economics)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... Do people procrastinate? Do they abuse drugs in ways that are obviously not in their long-term interest? Do people feel cheated, and retaliate, when their own generosity is met by pure greed and exploitation? In the 1960s, Irving Kristol...

Saving the Antiquities.(Afghani antiquities housed in Swiss museum)
May 14, 2001... As far as the Taliban leaders are concerned, the best way to preserve Afghanistan's culture is to demolish antiquities that aren't Islamic-- including the two giant Buddhas of Bamiyan that they blasted to pieces in March. But while the...

Japan's Martha Stewart.(Harumi Kurihara)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... Harumi Kurihara insists she is just an ordinary housewife. Seated in the tastefully decorated living room of her central Tokyo house, she grants an interview as several assistants quietly prepare lunch. At precisely noon, Kurihara stands up,...

The Mountain Is Rumbling.(Mount Etna)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... Each spring, residents of Catania walk the Sicilian's town's narrow streets chanting prayers and touting relics of Saint Agatha, their patron saint and protectress against an eruption of Mount Etna. All the while, the mountain looms overhead,...

Hollywood Does Cannes.(Cannes Film Festival attracts Hollywood films)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... As the Cannes Film Festival organizers see it, "Moulin Rouge" was made for them. What could be more perfect for opening night than a big, splashy period musical based on France's famed Pigalle cabaret? Even better, screening the film would mean...

Facing Death on the Ice.(Jerri Nielsen)(Brief Article)(Interview)
May 14, 2001... In 1998, bitterly divorced and estranged from her children, Jerri Nielsen, 46, an Ohio doctor, went to the South Pole on a year's contract to care for 40 U.S. scientists and construction workers. There, she developed aggressive breast cancer....

Getting Out The Vote.(Philippines)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... When Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo swept into power on a wave of popular protest in January, elites in Manila and Washington breathed a sigh of relief. Here was a sober-minded leader--an economics professor, no less--who would restore stability to a...

The Son Also Surprises.(Kim Jong Nam)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... You may soon be named heir apparent in one of the world's most reclusive, repressive and downright odd kingdoms--so what do you do for fun? When immigration officials at Tokyo's Narita airport took a look at the Dominican passport of a man...

Mexico's War Over Taxes.(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... In 1740, the story goes, father Juan Antonio de Vizarron, the Spanish viceroy in colonial Mexico, found refuge in the tiny hamlet of San Francisco Magu while he prepared his defense against accusations of treason. When the Spanish Crown finally...

Vows and Prayers.(Mohammed Khatami)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... After months of suspense, Mohammed Khatami ended all speculation last week. In a drab Tehran office, he filled out a standardized five-page form that included his "revolutionary credentials," like any other candidate for the June 8 vote. Then,...

The E-Learning Boom.(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... HIGH TECH The E-Learning Boom These days any business with an "E" in front of its name seems passe, but in Europe there's still at least one that has the spark of life. This is "e-learning," the use of technology to teach skills...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... "We must seek security based on more than the grim premise that we can destroy those who seek to destroy us."U.S. President George W. Bush, on the need for a high-tech--and high-cost--missile-defense shield "I wrote a paper a long time ago...

A True Movie Moment.(film premiere of 13 Days in Moscow confirms real danger of Cuban missle crisis)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... When the Cuban- missile-crisis movie "13 days" was screened in Moscow last month for a group of senior Soviets involved in the cold-war standoff, several Americans in attendance learned that the crisis was even more dangerous than they knew. In...

Gifts for Gold.(United States Olympic Committee offered bonuses if U.S. athletes win gold)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... Bejing's not the only city pulling out all the stops for Olympic victory. U.S. Olympic Committee employees have been promised bonuses if the U.S. team wins 20 gold medals at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games. The official spin? "We want...

Back to the Future.(Russian magazine Itogi becomes state owned and loses its freedom of expression)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... Just last month, news magazine Itogi was the topical, free-speaking voice of a new Russia. Then came a hostile boardroom takeover by a state-owned company, and a total turnover of the staff. Suddenly Itogi, no longer affiliated with NEWSWEEK,...

Handicapping the Videogame Wars.(Microsoft Corp.)(Nintendo Company Ltd.)(Sony Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... * Sony has a 12- to 18-month head start--a big advantage. With killer apps like Gran Turismo 3, Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid 2 on the way, it'll be extremely difficult to beat. * Nintendo, the wily veteran, is widely recognized as...

Pop Goes the Answer.(web site featuring Britney spears aims at teaching teens quantum physics)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... Teens have always been far more interested in the likes of Britney Spears than, say, learning about the intricacies of quantum physics. So how to get 'em excited about learning? Just throw a little pop culture into the mix, as did British...

Bring Back the Love.(sexual stimulants for women rated)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... Viagra's made men awfully frisky. How are women to keep up? PERI test drove a few new female bliss enhancers, rating them from zero hearts to five: Woman Power: Spray it like a breath freshener. But is a numb, seemingly frozen tongue...

Can You Top This One?(humorous look at ease with which apologies are offered by various political bodies and persons)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... Sorry says it best. But only if you really mean it. Everyone from popes to presidents is offering up apologies these days, some gritting their teeth or mumble-mouthing more than others. From sorrys that never were to the sorriest sorrys we're...

Innovation Is Where You Find It.(post office services)(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... People and businesses simply aren't pushing paper like they used to. Regular first-class mail is flattening out or declining in some countries, while e-document delivery, e-commerce and e-messaging are booming. The postal services are now...

MAIL CALL.
May 21, 2001... A Difficult Dance With Beijing Our April 16 cover story on U.S.-China relations elicited a wide range of heated opinions and emotions from numerous readers. Most took the United States to task: "China has a right to protect its secrets,"...

Blair vs. The Press.(Tony Blair)
May 21, 2001... Last week Tony Blair seemed to be sitting about as pretty as a prime minister can sit going into a re-election campaign. The opposition Conservative Party was in disarray, barely able to crack a 30 percent ceiling in the polls. In one survey,...

Waterloo For A True Believer.(Conrad Black)(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... Asked by his own Sunday Telegraph last Christmas to recommend a little- known book, the newspaper tycoon Conrad Black nominated "Napoleon and his Marshals" by A. G. Macdonnell. "Napoleon emerges as a magnificent swashbuckler, more sinned...

Friends Are For Favors.(Rupert Murdoch)(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... The surest sign that Tony Blair was kick-starting an election campaign wasn't his traditional trip to Buckingham Palace to tell the queen. More important was Rupert Murdoch's early-May call on 10 Downing Street. Through two decades and three...

A Diplomatic Race Against Disaster.(Macedonia and the European Union)(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... The western diplomats who stalk the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia these days are mostly veteran Balkans hands. On their watch, in other parts of the region, one republic after another dissolved into ethnic violence and war. Many of them...

Tracking War Criminals.(Carla del Ponte)(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... Carla del Ponte has been chief prosecutor of The Hague tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda since 1999. Her determination, her record and her no-nonsense style have won her respect in Western capitals but caused run-ins with Yugoslav...

Lesson in Brotherly Love.(John Paul II in Syria)(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... If sounding a note of hope is part of a pope's job, then John Paul II had four great days in Syria earlier this month. The young Syrian friends of my wife and me--Muslim and Christian--walk around with a warm glow of love and joy that they dare...

The Rising Cost of Labor.(forced labor in Myanmar)(Statistical Data Included)
May 21, 2001... The small Burmese peasant with the red-stained teeth and the fearful eyes hardly seems capable of unnerving one of the world's most repressive military regimes. Maung is not a terrorist, a guerrilla or even a dissident. He is something that, in...

Mega's Moment.(Megawati Sukarnoputri)
May 21, 2001... It's easy to underestimate Megawati Sukarnoputri. Don't. Her lifelong family friend Abdurrahman Wahid has repeatedly fallen into that trap during his 18 months as Indonesia's president. He and his advisers misinterpreted the vice president's...

'It's Nostalgia in the Future'.(Wong Kar-wai movie "2046")(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... Wearing a polo shirt and jeans, Wong Kar-wai is at work in his Hong Kong office, studying footage for his upcoming movie, "2046." Set in Hong Kong, Seoul and Thailand and featuring stars from Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand and Japan, it is a...

Looking Back in Dismay.(dot-com disasters documented)(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... Kaleil Isaza Tuzman has President Bill Clinton in stitches. Halfway through the documentary film "Startup.com," the 28-year-old is seated next to the president at a White House conference on the New Economy, poking light fun at one of the other...

The Canal From Hell.(water pollution in Mexico City)(Statistical Data Included)
May 21, 2001... When the rainy season starts this month, dozens of places in Mexico City will overflow with gray flood-water. Drivers will stall on the highways, subway riders will tiptoe through the muck and stores will sell loads of platform shoes. City...

The Birth of Asiawood.(Thai film industry)
May 21, 2001... It is 6 a.m. on a scorching March day in the hills of central Thailand, but the cast of "Jan Dara" is already hard at work. Forty sweltering extras, dressed in 1930s costumes, are pretending to have a good time at a wedding reception in a grand...

Letter From America.(literature as pop culture)(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... Americans, the conventional wisdom has it, do not read. At least not as much as they used to. Television, movies, computer games, the Internet- -all have driven people away from books. And when they do read, it seems it's not literature they...

Round Two.(Ronnie Biggs, the great train robber)(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... Ronnie Biggs, the great train robber, spent the past 35 years on the lam as Britain's most famous fugitive. With 14 members of his gang, he pinched [Pound sterling]2.6 million in a celebrated 1963 mail-train heist, then was caught and...

Living la Vie en Rouge.(Parisian red-light district)(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... By 10 o' clock most nights, the boulevard de Clichy, at the foot of Montmartre, is choked with tour buses heading for the Moulin Rouge. They come from as far away as Poland and Scandinavia, honking and edging their way through traffic before...

What Scares CEOs.(global problem solving)(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... Jeffrey E. Garten, Dean of the Yale School of Management, is author of a new book, "The Mind of the C.E.O." In our era of hypercompetitive globalization, he argues, few chief executives genuinely think globally. They had better start. He spoke...

Why Brussels Is Not So Scary.(European Union)(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... For Americans in the past decade, thinking about Europe has meant thinking about the war in Bosnia or the occupation of Kosovo or NATO's enlargement. These are important issues, to be sure, but they are also familiar ones. Ethnic conflict, war,...

Perspectives.
May 21, 2001... "How could they have possibly made a mistake this huge?" Kathleen Treanor, who lost her 4-year-old daughter and her in-laws in the Oklahoma City bombing, on the FBI revelation that it had inadvertently withheld thousands of pages of evidence...

Welcome Back to Earth.(central banks)(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England cut interest rates last week, after persistently calling such a move unnecessary. When Alan Greenspan began similar cuts in January, he too had to execute an embarrassing flip-flop. It...

Blame It on Yourselves.(U.N. Human Rights Commission rejects United States)(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... Who cost the United States its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission in the recent secret vote? Theories abound. Was there a European Judas- -or three, or five? Is the world tired of being bullied by U.S. strong- arm human-rights tactics? Or...

I'll Have the Nuclear Gnocchi.(radiated pasta)(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... It seems mama's sauce isn't the only thing that puts the punch in Italian pasta. The German press piqued Italy's pride last week, claiming that much of the durum wheat used in the country's pasta is... radioactively mutated. Rubbish, retorted...

Hoop Dreams, Chinese Reality.(Yao Ming and the NBA)(Brief Article)
May 21, 2001... Last Friday Chinese basketball star Yao Ming's shot at playing in the NBA bounced off the backboard. His club, the state-owned Shanghai Sharks, declared that Yao would not be eligible for the NBA draft in June. Don't blame the U.S.-China...

The Other Bubble.(mobile communications industry in Europe)
May 28, 2001... This is the story of the other Internet bubble. Not the dot-com crash, but the potentially more devastating collapse of the race to roll out third-generation, or 3G, mobile phones in Europe. What distinguishes 3G mania is the size of its...

Lost In A Mobile Maze.(Brief Article)
May 28, 2001... The tiny Isle Of Man in the Irish Sea is not known as a vanguard of technology, but this month it was to serve as the test bed for the highly acclaimed third-generation mobile phones. A subsidiary of British Telecom (BT), the British phone...