Newsweek International articles from November 2005

Newsweek International archives from November 2005

Mail Call: In Katrina's Wake...(Letter to the Editor)
November 7, 2005... Our Sept. 12 report on Hurricane Katrina led many readers to fault the government's ineptitude. Wrote one, "Bush was missing in action." Asked another, "Why do Americans resort to violence after a disaster?" The Tragedy of Katrina As...

Close The Door; Voices arguing for a return to protectionism are getting louder across the region.(European Union)
November 7, 2005... Byline: Stefan Theil (With Tracy McNicoll in Paris) At long last, Tony Blair actually played the role of European Union president. Hoping to prevent last week's gathering of EU leaders from turning into another verbal fistfight, he...

Opinion: Dog-and-Tony Show: Last week's summit only highlighted the fact that the real work of reform needs to be done at the national level.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Andrew Moravcsik (Moravcsik is director of the European Union Program at Princeton.) Forget the debacle that was Europe's constitution. The EU is finally getting back to what it does best: solving concrete problems. Proposals from...

Putting On The Brakes; Is Tokyo about to raise interest rates too soon?
November 7, 2005... Byline: Christian Caryl Japan's economy is looking rosier than it has in years. Corporate profits are up. The stock market has been zipping along. Even households have been doing their part by buying more consumer products. And Tokyo...

'We Do Not Need Them'; Islamist groups take a high profile in the Kashmir relief effort, and decry an influx of Western troops.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Zahid Hussain With the advent of winter, hundreds of thousands of homeless victims of the earthquake in Pakistan's remote Kashmir region face the possibility of death from hunger, disease and cold. That dire prospect has sparked...

Nature's Drugs; Scientists tend to prefer the lab to the mess and complication of living beings. Now they realize that forests and oceans hold a bounty of useful chemicals.
November 7, 2005... Byline: William Underhill Swimmers in the coral reefs of the Philippines know to stay away from Conus magus. The sea snail may be small--just a few inches long--but it's deadly mean. One dose of its venom can paralyze the passing fish...

Fixing the Grape; The art of winemaking is now a science, thanks to New World vintners who aren't shy about change.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Mac Margolis (With Eric Pape in Paris, Jimmy Langman in Santiago and Karen MacGregor in Cape Town) The regional action committee of Wine Growers is not exactly part of the Axis of Evil. But when their commandos donned balaclavas and...

Plummet of The Americas; These countries cannot compete in basic manufacturing with East Asia, or in high technology with the United States and Europe.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Jeffrey E. Garten (Garten is the Juan Trippe professor at the Yale School of Management. (He can be reached at jeffrey.garten@yale.edu.)) As leaders of Latin America and the Caribbean gather this week for the fourth Summit of the...

Good Life.(superfoods,cigars, green weddings, iPods)
November 7, 2005... Byline: Anne Underwood, Tracy McNicoll, Tara Pepper, Steven Levy Food: The New Superfoods By Anne Underwood To say that Dr. Steven Pratt is passionate about food would be an understatement. To Pratt, coauthor of the 2004 best...

Perspectives.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources: New York Times, The Washington Post (2), BBC, Editor & Publisher, Reuters (2) "Israel must be wiped off the map." Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in remarks at a "World Without Zionism" conference...

Periscope.(Karl Rove, John Negroponte, Lech Kaczynski)(meshed briefs)
November 7, 2005... Byline: Michael Isikoff, Mark Hosenball, Michael Karnowski and Piotr Zaremba, Mary Carmichael and Claudia Kalb, Sudip Mazumdar, Tara Pepper, Nicole Joseph, Sean Smith U.S. Affairs: Last-Minute Evidence Special counsel Patrick...

Welcome to the Age Of Flash Memory.
November 7, 2005... Byline: B.J. Lee The iPod Nano is already behind the cutting edge--and that's good news. What makes this slender device so cool, of course, is Apple's use of so-called flash memory chips, which can hold songs and other data even if the...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
November 14, 2005... Plight of the Poor Readers of our Sept. 19 Special Report on poverty and race in America tried to grapple with the issues arising in Katrina's wake. One found our piece "on target." Another asked, "Why did it take such a calamity to open...

What's Hot? Plain-Jane Phone Lines.
November 14, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar In an age in which anyone can provide almost anything over the Internet, including telephone calls, you'd be forgiven for thinking that old-fashioned fixed-line phone companies, the kind that actually just own wires,...

The Fire This Time; Years of racism and neglect explode in a week of riots across France's mostly Muslim immigrant ghettos.
November 14, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey (With Tracy McNicoll in Clichy-sous-Bois and Eric Pape in Sevran) Word of the deaths spread quickly through Clichy-sous-Bois, a grim collection of housing projects an hour by train and bus from the center of...

Treasure Island; The country is a perfect candidate for globalization. But a new president must first put an end to decades of bloody civil strife.
November 14, 2005... Byline: Ron Moreau Back in the 1960s, Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew said that he hoped his island nation could one day emulate the success of Sri Lanka. In those days, the former Ceylon had a lot going for it: its per capita income...

The Business of the Flu; The threat of a pandemic is revolutionizing the vaccine industry, with billions pouring into new technology.
November 14, 2005... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Taiwan is close enough to the avian-flu outbreaks to fear the potential for a pandemic, and it is racing to find a modern vaccine. Christine Liu Ding-ping, the Taiwan Center for Disease Control's deputy director,...

Keepers of the Peace; Countries ravaged by war are turning to female leaders as the key to healing. They are far more likely to build bridges than to tear them down.(Cover Story)
November 14, 2005... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat At the age of 14, Nesreen Barwari was thrown into one of Saddam Hussein's political prisons. At 24, she was a Kurdish refugee, struggling for survival on Iraq's Turkish border. A decade later, in 2003, she became...

Made In America; Watch out, Bill Gates. Women who immigrate to the West are finding success in their new homelands by starting their own businesses.(Cover Story)
November 14, 2005... Byline: Sarah Childress (With Silvia Spring in London) Sheela Murthy, who moved to the United States from India in 1986, had worked only a few years at a New York law firm when she glimpsed her own glass ceiling. "It just felt like, 'Why am...

Opinion: What Sarko Did Wrong; France's top cop has erred in statement and more important, in policy.(Nicolas Sarkozy)
November 14, 2005... Byline: Olivier Roy (Roy is a senior researcher at France's National Center for Scientific Research and author of "Globalized Islam" (Columbia University Press, 2004)) Riots have been erupting in the destitute suburbs of Paris since the...

Mary Pearl; Where Flu Comes From.(Interview)(Excerpt)
November 14, 2005... Byline: Anne Underwood Protection of the environment often seems like a low-priority issue when stacked up against more immediate concerns. But a healthy environment is no mere luxury, says Mary Pearl, president of the Wildlife Trust. It...

Romano Prodi; 'I Am Not Overconfident'.(Interview)
November 14, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey and Jacopo Barigazzi Romano Prodi is ebullient, and for good reason. The former Italian prime minister, who also served as president of the European Commission, is riding the momentum from a special primary...

Why the New Taste for Risks?(global economy)
November 14, 2005... Byline: Jan Loeys (Loeys is the global head of market strategy at JPMorgan Securities Ltd. in London) Beware what you wish for: global investors would do well to heed this ancient warning just now. They usually love return and hate risk,...

The Good Life.
November 14, 2005... Byline: Dorothy Kalins, Tara Pepper, Nick Summers, Linda Stern Food: French-Fried New York By Dorothy Kalins When Michelin published its first-ever guide to New York City restaurants and hotels last week, the name Nicholas Chauvin...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom, left to right: BBC, International Herald Tribune, BBC, Reuters, BBC, Reuters "You're not a 'youth,' you're a thug." French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, on rioters clashing with...

Periscope.
November 14, 2005... Byline: Christian Caryl and Hideko Takayama, Alan Isenberg, Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenbal, Mary Carmichael, Vibhuti Patel, Jennifer Barrett, Nicki Gostin Japan: Send in the Hawks Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's announcement last...

When Women Lead; A growing number of women are rising to the top--and beginning to change the culture of the workplace.(Cover Story)
November 14, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar This should be a season of celebration. After all, by many measures, there's never been a better time to be a woman. In places like Scandinavia and Britain, a third or more of all corporate managers are now women. The...

How I Got There; Eight prominent women give first-person accounts of turning points in their personal lives and careers. What these leaders all display is a continuing passion for their work.(Cover Story)
November 14, 2005... OPRAH WINFREY Media Entrepreneur I grew up with the American public, and everybody knows I worked hard for my success. When I started, my goal was just to have a job. I was 19 and I couldn't believe I was on TV. My first job paid $10,000 a...

The Company Of Women; Women hold close to a third of top management jobs at Xerox. Inside the firm's 'kinder culture.'.(Cover Story)
November 14, 2005... Byline: Daniel McGinn Leslie Varon's boss lived by a simple rule: if he was in the office, she should be, too. In the early 1990s Varon worked in finance at Xerox, and the department's VP was an old-style organization man. "You could set...

7 Leaders on Life Lessons; They come from diverse backgrounds and work in vastly different fields, but their tales of growth and triumph show they have a lot in common.(Cover Story)
November 14, 2005... ELLEN JOHNSON-SIRLEAF Presidential candidate, Liberia I've held positions at the World Bank and the United Nations. But in all of those positions, I served as a professional who happened to be a woman. In no way did I feel any...

Digital Sweat.(video games)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat Videogames aren't just for couch-potato kids anymore. The sweat inspiring games fad--"exergaming"? "exertainment"?--is being touted as the latest in home gyms. Last month Sony brought out Kinetic, a game that...

Mail Call: Trendy Tech Toys.(Letter to the Editor)
November 21, 2005... Our Sept. 26/Oct. 3 double issue on entertainment miffed readers who hated what the new tech gadgets represent. "What are these people escaping from?" asked one, then answered, "The real world and its unsolved problems." Said another, "You...

It's About Jobs; The riots in France tell us less about a clash of civilizations than about Europe's economies, still stuck firmly in neutral.(Cover Story)
November 21, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar (With Stefan Theil in Berlin) To understand why young Muslims in French slums have been burning cars and buildings over the past two weeks, consider the economics of hairdressing. On the streets of New York and London,...

Pain in the Middle; Too much of the world is getting poorer, not richer. That's bad news for us all.
November 21, 2005... Byline: David Rothkopf (Rothkopf is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and is the author of "Running the World," a history of U.S. foreign-policy making since the second world war.) The failure of the...

Oliver's New Twist; Classics films never die, they just get remade.
November 21, 2005... Byline: Ginanne Brownell (With Kevin O'Flynn in Moscow) It's been 167 years since "Oliver Twist" debuted in novella form, but Charles Dickens can still draw a crowd. Despite the splattering rain on a recent Saturday evening, a long queue...

The Empire of the Arts; Rarely seen works from three Chinese dynasties go on show in London. Hu Jintao is among the first visitors.
November 21, 2005... Byline: Tara Pepper Turn the wrong corner in the new exhibition at London's Royal Academy, "China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795," and you could easily miss the exquisite highlight of the show. Toward the end of the exhibit, which runs...

Europe's Time Bomb; The French riots should be a wake-up call for all Europe. What's long been considered 'normal' is no longer socially or politically sustainable.(Cover Story)
November 21, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey (With Eric Pape in Clichy-sous-Bois, Tracy McNicoll in Paris, Stefan Theil in Berlin, Stryker McGuire and Katarzyna Gruszkowska in London, Barbie Nadeau in Rome, Jacopo Barigazzi in Milan, Mike Elkin and Jenny...

The Color Of New Europe; One common reality through Europe is that minorities remain apart.(Cover Story)(Correction Notice)
November 21, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: Editor's Note: The initial version of this report incorrectly stated that England would have 21 M.P.s of minority heritage if Parliament were truly representative. The correct number is 51. ***** Byline: Ellis...

Continental Divide; Asia has been growing rapidly for 25 years. So why does half it s population live on $2 a day? Inside the Asia you don't see.(Cover Story)
November 21, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz, Joe Cochrane and Jonathan Ansfield (With B. J. Lee in Seoul and Ron Moreau and Sudip Mazumdar in Bangalore) Asia doesn't have Bono, Bob Geldof and Jeffrey Sachs, the tireless trio that has made eradicating misery...

Frank McCourt; Liberation of Learning.(Interview)
November 21, 2005... Byline: Malcom Jones In his first memoir, "Angela's Ashes," Frank McCourt explored the Old World through memories of his childhood spent in Limerick, Ireland. In his latest book, "Teacher Man: A Memoir," the 75-year-old New York-born...

Battle of the Asian Summits; Asian states want to hedge against protectionism in the U.S. and EU with stronger regional trade strategies.
November 21, 2005... Byline: Jeffrey E. Garten (Garten is the Juan Trippe Professor at the Yale School of Management. (He can be reached atjeffrey.garten@yale.edu.)) The world's attention will be focused on Busan, South Korea, this week, where the heads of...

The Good Life.(nanny-friendly vacation spots; Ryanair; business trip employee tracking; New Zealand)
November 21, 2005... Byline: Michael Hastings, Martin Stabe, Linda Stern Travel: And A Room for The Nanny, Too By Michael Hastings For years, the pitter-patter of little feet across the sundecks of the world's most exclusive getaways was anathema to...

Perspectives.
November 21, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources, top to bottom: The Washington Post, AP, New York Times, U.S. State Department, AP "The best day became the worst." Bashar Daas, on the terrorist blasts at three Jordanian hotels, including one that killed...

Periscope.(Iran; Britain; US intelligence and Iraq; Peru; Vivendi Universal and other meshed briefs)
November 21, 2005... Byline: Alan Isenberg, Stryker McGuire, Mark Hosenball, Jimmy Langman and Sharon Stevenson, Rana Foroohar, Ginanne Brownell, Sean Smith, Bret Begun Iran Political Power Struggles in the Persian Gulf Like his U.S. counterpart, Iranian...

Put Your Lips Together...(using cell phones in South Korea to measure blood-alcohol levels)(Brief Article)
November 21, 2005... Byline: B. J. Lee What can't you do with a cell phone in South Korea? If you've had one too many, just blow into your LG Electronics Sports Car and it measures your blood-alcohol level. The phone also serves as a remote control for your...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
November 28, 2005... Friends in High Places Our Oct. 10 report on cronyism in the Bush White House drew cries of indignation. One called it "a growing stain on democracy." Another hoped that America appreciates "the harm caused by its present leaders." ...

Second Thoughts; China's too-hot economy is prompting firms to look elsewhere to invest.(Cover Story)
November 28, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz (With Jonathan Adams in Taipei and B. J. Lee in Seoul) Steel is the measure of an industrial economy. Or so thought Chairman Mao when, to achieve his utopian Great Leap Forward in 1958, he ordered the masses to...

Vietnam Revs Up; Asia's upstart is challenging China in light manufacturing and pulling in nearly as much foreign investment as India.(Cover Story)
November 28, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz (With Hideko Takayama in Tokyo) They troll Hanoi's industrial fringe by the thousands, piloting scooters or pedaling bikes in search of help wanted signs outside foreign-invested factories. There are plenty to be...

Homegrown; The Japanese are getting into the buyout business--and earning high marks for their dealmaking and management savvy.(Cover Story)
November 28, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: Correction: In "Homegrown" (Nov. 28, 2005), NEWSWEEK used a photograph showing shoppers inside a Seibu department store in Japan, implying the store was owned by the railway conglomerate Seibu referenced in the story. It...

Awaiting The 'Big Fire'; Kremlin-watchers buzz about who will replace Putin. But Russia's real future is outside Moscow.(Vladimir Putin)
November 28, 2005... Byline: Michael Meyer and Anna Nemtsova Ramazan Tembotov hardly cuts the image of a hardened Islamo-terrorist. A soft-spoken human-rights activist, he's clearly more at home with legal briefs than a Kalashnikov. He's also an elected...

South Korea: A Buyout Backlash; 'Speculative' funds are under fire for big profits.(Cover Story)
November 28, 2005... Byline: B. J. Lee Intensely nationalistic South Korea has long been ambivalent about foreign investment. In the late 1990s, the country was forced to open its doors to private-equity funds and other international investors because, in the...

Reining in the Army; Police-linked bombers sought to spark ethnic unrest. Instead they may help break the cycle of violence.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Owen Matthews and Sami Kohen Seferi Yilmaz was sitting with friends in his bookshop, in the remote mountain town of Semdinli in southeastern Turkey, when the grenade came rolling in. He dived for a back door just in time. The blast...

The Myth Of Stability; Allies must have common goals and values. Putin's Russian shares neither.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Gary Kasparov (Kasparov is the chairman of Committee 2008 Free Choice and leader of the United Civil Front of Russia.) If we were to sum up the conventional wisdom about Russia today, it would read something like this: The Putin...

Living a Literary Life; Recalling a Paris bookstore--and its eccentric founder.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Benjamin Sutherland There were many signs that Jeremy Mercer, a rookie crime reporter at the Ottawa Citizen, was heading down a dangerous road. In his memoir, "Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co." (260 pages....

Tigers With No Claws; Emerging markets in Asia are struggling to regain the momentum of the 1980s and 1990s.(Cover Story)
November 28, 2005... Byline: Ruchir Sharma (Sharma is co-head of global emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.) Every bull market has its stars. During the previous boom in emerging markets that ended a decade ago, the superstars were the...

Spinning the Web Forward.(Vinton Cerf)(Interview)
November 28, 2005... Byline: Michael Hastings Vinton Cerf has been dubbed the father of the Internet, a label the 62-year-old Connecticut native rejects. "There are lots of fathers of the Internet," says the legendary computer scientist who worked on the...

The Saudis Slip In Silently; There is no record that the United States of others even tried to use the WTO negotiators to loosen the OPEC cartel's stronghold on oil.
November 28, 2005... 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.) The big news is often in the silence. that was certainly true in the case of Saudi Arabia's...

Good Life.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Michael Hastings, Sandy Lawrence Edry, Ginanne Brownell, Anna Kuchment, Ramin Setoodeh, Tara Weingarten Technology: Television Served Alfresco By Michael Hastings For well-heeled TV lovers, the newest frontier in...

Perspectives.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Quotation Sources: AP, BBC, AFP, Reuters, Guardian Unlimited, BBC "It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion." Usually hawkish Democratic Congressman John Murtha, calling for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq "The...

Periscope.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Rod Nordland, Evan Thomas and Michael Isikoff, Stefan Theil, Dan Ephron, John Sparks, Nicki Gostin, Barbie Nadeau, Jonathan Alter Egypt: Nour's Nightmare Back in September, 40-year-old Ayman Nour was busy mounting an electoral...

Snap Judgment: Books.(New Lives)(The Highly Civilised Man)(The Utility of Force)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 28, 2005... Byline: Marialuisa Plassmann, John R. Bradley, Ginanne Brownell 'New Lives' by Ingo Schulze In this 800-page novel, written in German, the author unfolds a dense narrative of the turmoil wrought by German reunification. His...

Homeward Bound.(Brief Article)
November 28, 2005... Ever leave a hotel lobby sans map or guidebook only to find yourself totally lost a twist and a turn later? Have no fear. Rosewood Hotel & Resorts now supply guests with a GPS navigating system at their properties from Tokyo to Dallas. The...

The Earth's Learning Curve; The scientific revolution that began 300 years ago has accelerated exponentially. It is moving so fast that the spread of knowledge defines our times. Nations that learn faster will prosper. But it will take something else--wisdom--to endure.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Imagine a chart that begins when man first appeared on the planet and tracks the economic growth of societies from then forward. It would be a long, flat line until the late 16th or early 17th century, when it would...

The Exhausting Race for Ideas; Individuals have authored their own content since cave men and women were painting on walls. But once they could do it in digital form, the power of ideas would trump the might of armies in world affairs.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Thomas L. Friedman (Friedman, the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, is author of "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.") In the fall of 2005, I was going through my notes after a trip to...

Minds on the Move; The world might be flat, it's true, if it were not for cities drawing in talent like 'IQ magnets.'.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Richard Florida (Florida is the Hirst Professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and the author of "The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent.") In March of 2003 I met Peter...

The World Is Tilted; The popular idea that America is one step smarter and more sophisticated than its rivals is a dangerous myth, and a threat to the global economy.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Clyde Prestowitz (Prestowitz is president of the Economic Strategy Institute and author of "Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East.") For most of the last 50 years, globalization has been a...

Europe Is Falling Behind; Complaining about globalization is as pointless as trying to turn back the tide. Asian competition can't be shut out; it can only be beaten. And now, by every relative measure of a modern economy, Europe is lagging.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Tony Blair (Blair is prime minister of the U.K.) It was Canute, one of the first English kings, who is said to have demonstrated the limits of his powers by showing that the tide would not obey his orders. Hearing some of the...

On a Modern Path; Our model of solidarity is the right one, but France needs to change a culture that still prefers big, safe enterprise to taking risks.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Dominique Strauss-Kahn (Strauss-Kahn is a member of Parliament and former Finance minister of France.) The future of Europe in the next 10 or 20 years--one is tempted to say its existence--depends on our ability to participate...

How High? Tales of China's rise now assume that it is gaining fast on the information age elite, churning out semiconductors and engineers. But raw numbers can be deceiving.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Melinda Liu To hear many western pundits tell it, China is rap-idly building a "knowledge economy." That phrase was a buzzword of the late ' 90s, when Beijing leaders were dazzled by the notion of China's leapfrogging into the...

Islamic Reaffirmation; Young Muslims need to learn that a small minority of extremists is trying to hijack our faith. so, too, do opinion makers in the west.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Abdullah II Bin Al-Hussein (Abdullah is the king of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.) Every age has its false ideas. In our time, it is the notion that Islam demands hostility and aggression, and rejects peaceful engagement in the...

Latin Love Affair; The notion that Latin America is a technology backwater is well out of date. Indeed, it courts investors with more vigor than America does.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Craig R. Barrett (Barrett is chairman of Intel.) I make an annual trip to Argentina, but the last one was different. The highlight was a deal we announced with Alan Faena, the South American fashion designer. Faena is part of a...

Digital Republics; Forget bananas. Though there is much left to do in building more-stable societies, Latin America is rising as an information age threat.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Oscar Arias (Arias, a Nobel laureate and former president of Costa Rica, is running for a second presidential term.) What's the third most competitive outsourcing destination in the world, after China and India? It's Costa Rica,...

Why Sweden is So Tough; Those who think that the Swedish welfare model is too soft to survive in the global era miss the point. Yes, we are more generous than most, but we are far more competitive, too.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Goran Persson (Persson is the prime minister of Sweden.) The economic success of the Scandinavian countries is surprising, perhaps, for some. It is often said that in the era of globalization, countries with generous welfare...

Learning to Share; No, selfishness is not dying, but more and more companies and countries are seeing the profit and advantage in sharing knowledge.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar The invisible hand of Adam Smith is morphing into an invisible handshake. Since his day in the 18th century, economists have built their models on the Smithian assumption that humans are self-interested, and not...

The Big Blue Yonder; By giving away hundreds of its patents, IBM has turned a philosophical movement into a tangible business strategy. The company with the most to lose is Microsoft. A close-up look at the software war.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller By the time Sam Palmisano took over as CEO of IBM in 2002, the technology giant had become the undisputed king of patents. Each year it files more than 3,000 patents, more than any other company. And yet IBM had...

The Information Puzzle; Some observers are perplexed, and others infuriated, by what they think is IBM's contradictory stand on innovation. So let me explain.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Sam Palmisano (Palmisano is chairman and CEO of IBM.) In IBM's conversations with decision makers--from CEOs to university presidents to prime ministers and community leaders--we are hearing one question over and over: "How can I...

Why Crush Them? When Louis Armstrong borrowed from his peers, the law smiled on him. So why does it look upon his successors as digital criminals?
November 28, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Lessig (Lessig is a professor at Stanford Law School and author, most recently, of "Free Culture.") In the next five years, there will be more than a billion additional machines for making music in the world. Not pianos or...

Small-Town Web; The Internet has been accused of killing main street, but in many waysit is leading the revival of a nostalgic service ethic.
November 28, 2005... Byline: John Chambers (Chambers is president and CEO of Cisco Systems.) There was a time when local merchants greeted you when you entered a shop. There was no need to place your order--they already knew what you wanted based on months or...

Innovation Inc. By inviting some of our most savvy customers in for 'dreaming sessions,' we've found a not-too complicated path to real breakthroughs.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Jeff Immelt (Immelt is chairman and CEO of General Electric.) Since I became CEO of General Electric in 2001, I've tried to get the company more focused on using technology to solve customer problems. The goal is to drive organic...

The Stealth Factor; Just because the world is awash in information doesn't mean that globalization will go smoothly. Indeed, we are as ignorant as ever about the larger forces that threaten our prosperity. Maybe more so.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson Let's locate the greatest vulnerability of the "knowledge economy." Easy. It's ignorance. In a globalized and digitized world, we are awash in what might be called "microknowledge": databases, music downloads...

Knowledge Glut; Amid a great information explosion, the share of knowledge that the world puts to good use is falling. History tells us this will end badly.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Danny Quah (Quah is professor of economics at the London School of Economics.) The headline shocked. BUSINESSES RAISE ALARM: WORLDWIDE OIL GLUT HITS RECORD HIGH. Ok, I made that one up. Such headlines don't appear in a world where...

The New Rich-Rich Gap; The wealthy class is splitting into two elites, one national and threatened by outsourcing, the other international and profiting wildly from globalization.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Robert B. Reich (Reich is professor of social and economic policy at Brandeis University and former U.S. secretary of Labor.) Almost 15 years ago, in "The Work of Nations," I described a three-tiered work force found in most...

The Global Union; The split we engineered in America's oldest and largest labor confederation was small news compared with our real goal: the creation of a world union.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Andrew Stern (Stern is president of the Service Employees International Union.) On July 25, 2005, in an airy conference room at Chicago's Sheraton Hotel, organized labor once again captured the headlines in a city that has seen its...

Google: Ten Golden Rules; Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here's how we do it at google.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian (Schmidt is CEO of Google. Varian is a Berkeley professor and consultant with Google.) t google, we think business guru Peter Drucker well understood how to manage the new breed of "knowledge workers."...